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  • Handicapping EPA’s deregulatory climate agenda

    The replacement for the Clean Power Plan, the Obama-era regulation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electric power industry, does away with broad carbon emissions reduction targets for the electricity industry. The proposed regulation would require only that existing coal plants become more energy efficient. The result is likely to be modest reductions in carbon emissions, at best, from the electricity sector, while the lives of some coal plants could be extended.

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →

  • ‘Above and beyond’ experience for Kleinman Fellow

    Khushboo Goel, an MBA student at Penn’s Wharton School is a summer fellow at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris working on deep decarbonization strategies in India and the United States, through the Kleinman Birol Fellowship from the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →

  • Linh Thi Xuan Phan builds new defenses for cyber-physical infrastructure

    In order to protect technologies that exist both online and in the physical world, such as self-driving cars, the computer and information science assistant professor is applying a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to prevent intruders operating online.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →

  • US offshore wind industry arrives

    After a decade of false starts, the U.S. offshore wind industry is poised for real growth.

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →

  • Penn engineering featured at Philly’s first Mini Maker Faire

    Penn Engineering’s GRASP Lab robots and aerial vehicles were featured in Philly's first Maker Faire, a gatherings of “makers” — people interested in arts, crafts, and engineering — that take place around the world.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →

  • Natural gas’ methane problem

    A new study in the journal Science found that methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas sector are about 60 percent higher than the Environmental Protection Agency's  original estimate. 

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →

  • Danielle Bassett wins Erdős-Rényi Prize

    The award, given by the Network Science Society, recognizes the achievements of a young researcher working in the field of network science.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →

  • Kathleen Stebe wins 2018 Langmuir Lectureship Award

    The award, presented by the American Chemical Society’s Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry, recognizes individuals working in the interdisciplinary field of colloid and surface chemistry.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →

  • Penn Engineering 2018 teaching awards

    Three teachers were chosen directly by their engineering students for the awards, based on excellence, dedication, and inspiration.

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  • A tiny technological transfer

    In order to expand the research capabilities of medicine, chemistry and other scientific fields, the Center for Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine has created the Chemical and Nanoparticle Synthesis Core, which will fashion research components with the dimensions and precision only a nanotech expert can provide.   

    FULL STORY AT Penn One Health →