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  • Kathleen Stebe elected to National Academy of Engineering

    The Richer & Elizabeth Goodwin Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering was elected for her contributions to understanding nonequilibrium processes at soft matter interfaces and its impact on new technologies. Among the many technologies Stebe’s research is poised to impact are those in the field of dental medicine; she is the co-director of the newly established Center for Innovation and Precision Dentistry.

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  • Penn and UC Merced research reveals an unexpected mechanism behind friction for 2D materials

    A team of engineers and physicists from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Merced have now discovered a new mechanism that controls friction of two dimensional materials at the nanoscale.

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  • Jennifer Wilcox contributes to Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer

    Wilcox has played a key role in the publication of a free, digital publication—Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer—to reach a broad audience in an effort to maximize the adoption of techniques to avoid carbon and actively remove it from the atmosphere

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  • Penn, Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins to develop new Turing Tests, investigate how AI can become more like biological intelligence

    AI researchers at Penn, Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins aim to better understand biological intelligence in order to make artificially intelligent systems better able to learn and adapt.

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  • Firooz Aflatouni wins 2020 Bell Labs Prize

    The associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, in collaboration with Farshid Ashtiani, a postdoctoral scholar in Aflatouni’s research group, won the top prize for their proposal for “Integrated Photonic-mmWave Deep Networks.”

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  • J.D. Albert named 2020 National Academy of Inventors Fellow

    The lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and the Integrated Design Program has awarded for demonstrating a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society.

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  • Marc Miskin wins two Young Investigator Awards for microrobotic research

    The assistant professor in Penn Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering has been awarded for his research on microscopic robots, and will receive a three-year, $360,000 gift from the Army Research Office Young Investigator Program and a three-year, $450,000 gift from the Air Force’s Young Investigator Research Program.

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  • $40 million Department of Energy grant funds collaborative research on solar technology

    The Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels has been awarded a Department of Energy grant focused on the production of fuels from sunlight. The $40 million grant, over five years, will accelerate fundamental research on solar technology in order to meet the increasing needs for clean and renewable energy sources.

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  • Two Penn research teams win NSF awards to pursue ‘the future of manufacturing’

    The Weitzman School of Design’s Masoud Akbarzadeh has used geometry-based structural optimization techniques to create human-scale structures out of concrete. He and his colleagues in Penn Engineering will mimic evolution’s approach toward minimizing the use of material while maximizing its performance as part of their NSF “Future Manufacturing” project.

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  • Nader Engheta awarded Isaac Newton Medal and Prize

    The H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering, Bioengineering and Materials Science and Engineering has been awarded the 2020 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics, the professional body and scholarly society for physics in the UK and Ireland.

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