In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Stephen J. Angello Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Materials conducts research into the chemical and physical properties of nanostructured materials, and integrating materials with optical, electrical, magnetic, mechanical, and thermal properties to create multifunctional devices.
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Penn Health-Tech’s Nemirovsky Engineering and Medicine Opportunity (NEMO) Prize awards $80,000 to support early-stage ideas joining engineering and medicine. This year, the NEMO Prize has been awarded to a team of researchers from Penn Engineering’s Department of Bioengineering, with a project that aims to develop a technology that can detect multiple cancer biomarkers in single cells from tumor biopsy samples.
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The associate professor in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics is one of the ten winners in the Engineering and Technology category, presenting his research on a type of light-powered flight known as photophoretic levitation.
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The Department of Materials Science and Engineering’s Eric Detsi will lead a team of researchers to develop more eco-friendly batteries that are based on sodium, rather than lithium, with a National Science Foundation grant of $2.7 million.
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The assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering will use the funds for research on microscopic robots to emulate fundamental biology, provide new ways of thinking about life and shape the microworld with precision and control.
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The J. Peter Skirkanich Professor in the departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been elected a 2021 Fellow of the American Physical Society, for significant contributions to the network modeling of the human brain, including dynamical changes caused by evolution, learning, aging, and disease.
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The Penn Anti-Cancer Engineering Center will study fundamental forces and associated challenges that determine how cancer grows and spreads, looking for mechanisms that could lead to new treatments or preventative therapies.
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Co-founded by associate professor of medicine Saar Gill, Interius is developing new ways to engineer cells inside the human body, and aims to transform cell and gene therapy through direct patient administration of genetic medicines to generate therapeutic immune and blood cells.
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IceBot was officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the first robot made from of ice, designed by Mark Yim, Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the ModLab, and ModLab grad student Devin Carroll.
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To further develop innovation ecosystems and share regional resources, the NSF has launched a network of five I-Corps Hubs, with Penn serving as a member of the Mid-Atlantic Hub.
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