In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Network neuroscientist, Danielle Bassett, Eduardo D. Glandt Faculty Fellow and associate professor in the Department Bioengineering, brings together mathematics, physics, electrical engineering and developmental biology to understand how the brain’s connections form and change.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
Penn Engineering senior design team members John Kearney, Max Li, William Tam, and Sahithya Prakash, along with their team advisor, Megan S. Ryerson, were awarded the Secretary’s Student RAISE Award by the Executive Committee of the Council of University Transportation Centers.
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The Biomedical Library’s 3D Printing service, managed by Barbara Kountouzi, has supported numerous innovative Penn-conducted research projects that have been featured in the news, with one recent example being the work of Associate Professor, Orkan Telhan.
FULL STORY AT Penn Biomedical Library News →
Bionengineering’s Dan Huh and his BIOLines research group were awarded the 2018 Lush Science Prize for work on organ-on-a-chip devices. The cosmetic company’s prize is designed to encourage work on alternatives to animal testing.
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Firooz Aflatouni has been awarded a NASA Early Stage Innovations grant to design and implement arrays of optical antennas that can enable laser communication in near-Earth satellites.
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The finalists in Penn’s seventh annual Y-Prize Competition proposed a diverse slates of applications, but share the same roll-to-roll surface wrinkle printing technology, developed through a collaboration among several labs at the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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The Wall Street Journal’s docu-series “Moving Upstream” takes a closer look at disruptive technologies that are changing the way we live, work and communicate, from gene editing to cryptocurrencies, and the deceptive videos known as “Deepfakes.”
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In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that when a natural photoreceptor protein is exposed to light, it moves itself from the inside of the cell to the surface, like a molecular “elevator,” by directly binding to the cell’s membrane.
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Ateam of Penn Engineers has demonstrated a new material they call “nanocardboard,” an ultrathin equivalent of corrugated paper cardboard.
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On October 8th, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees, describing expected environmental, economic and social impacts brought by 1.5 degrees Celsius of climate warming, and the actions that need to be taken on a global scale to limit warming to that level.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
