In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy has announced this year’s recipient of its 2023 Carnot Prize: Ramón Méndez Galain, physicist, renewable energy visionary, and Uruguay’s former secretary of energy.
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The Penn Research in Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems Engineering Center was founded 15 years ago. Some of the notable systems developed are CHARON for hybrid system modeling and verification VitalCore for monitoring the Internet of Medical Things, F1TENTH for autonomous racing and Verisig for safety verification of neural network controllers. Its two new faculty members are Benjamin C. Lee and Mingmin Zhao.
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Researchers in the Center for Fetal Research at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Engineering have identified an ionizable lipid nanoparticle that can deliver mRNA base editing tools to the brain.
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The Kleinman Center’s co-faculty Director Sanya Carly and her team were awarded an EPA grant to evaluate the effects of weatherization and electrification on household energy consumption and behavior, energy poverty, and indoor air quality for urban Cincinnati.
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Demystifying mechanochemistry, the crushing of chemicals to produce reactions and substances, is the central goal of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry, an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration.
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This summer, the Pennovation Accelerator held their sixth annual Pitch Day at the Pennovation Center. The culminating event for the six-week program focused on business development. Of the nine pitches, Medicratic was named the overall 2023 Pennovation Accelerator Winner, and Pocket Scribe won Best Pitch at the 2023 Pennovation Accelerator Pitch Day.
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Long-distance electric transmission lines are a critical to the energy transition, yet construction of new lines has come to a near standstill in the U.S. Rob Gramlich of Grid Strategies discusses recent market and regulatory action to resurrect transmission development.
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Researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Science have introduced a new ferroelectric field effect transistors design that demonstrates record-breaking performances in both computing and memory.
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The Presidential Assistant Professor in psychiatry, microbiology, bioengineering and in chemical and biomolecular engineering is awarded for his recent contribution of unusual merit to research in the field of peptide science.
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Researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Science are partnering with investigators at Oregon State University, as well as Semio, a Los Angeles-based software company that specializes in robotics applications, on a $5 million National Science Foundation effort to accelerate human-robotic-interface research by designing a standardized humanoid robot to distribute to the scientific community.
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