In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
To celebrate Pennovation Works’ 6th Anniversary and PCI Ventures’ 12 years of service to the Penn community, the Showcase brought together entrepreneurs, faculty members, investors, and industry leaders for an evening of education and networking last month.
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Following the Pennovation Accelerator Pitch Day in July, Baleena was named the overall 2022 Pennovation Accelerator Winner, which works to provide a low-cost microfiber trapping device used in consumers’ homes to reduce microplastic emissions in laundry. Sledge Scarves won Best Pitch at the 2022 Pennovation Accelerator Pitch Day, which produce non-slip satin head scarves designed to protect and maintain healthy hair growth.
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This year’s category is solar-powered aerial vehicle technology, which uses only sunlight to create lift force, and physics-informed neural networks, algorithms that can utilize physical principles to infer unknowns.
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Penn Engineering’s Karen Winey has been awarded a Department of Energy grant that will provide $2.2 million over three years to fund the design, synthesis, and study of hydrocarbon-based proton exchange membranes to mimic the relevant features of fluorine-based polymer membranes, which comprise long-lasting fuel cells, in anticipation of proposed fluorine bans.
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The J. Peter and Geri Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in the Department of Bioengineering is one of this year’s recipients of the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, given to early-career faculty researchers who demonstrate the potential to be role models in their field and invest in the outreach and education of their work.
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The Harold Pender Professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is awarded for her contributions to the understanding and advancement of polymer nanocomposites and ion-containing polymers, particularly structural control and transport dynamics.
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The assistant professor in bioengineering has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for researching therapies that use engineered cells to treat diseases, infections and chronic illnesses.
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To address the discrepancy in scientific rigor—such as poor study design, small sample sizes and improper assessment of the significance of data—the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has launched the Initiative to Improve Education in the Principles of Rigorous Research.
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The National Science Foundation’s Research Traineeship Program’s latest series of grants are going toward programs focused on artificial intelligence and quantum information science and engineering. Chinedum Osuji has received one of these grants to apply data science and machine learning to the field of soft materials, alongside co-PIs Russell Composto, Zahra Fakhraai, Paris Perdikaris, and Andrea Liu.
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Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering, and Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna Professor and Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, played critical roles in the development of a report from Engineering Research Visioning Alliance which delineates research priorities the engineering research community can pursue to address climate change.
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