Philadelphia public school students Kevin Ransom (left) and Hakim Moffitt (right) are building their own robots with oversight from Director of PENNlincs Chris Massey, Ph.D., at the PENNlincs Summer Robotics Academy. Two one-week programs at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science this summer also gave middle schoolers a chance to program the robots and to meet people who worked with robots.
Nanoparticle blueprints reveal path to smarter medicines
New research involving Penn Engineering shows detailed variation in lipid nanoparticle size, shape, and internal structure, and finds that such factors correlate with how well they deliver therapeutic cargo to a particular destination.
A generous gift from alumni Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman brings the work of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa to the University of Pennsylvania. The latest addition to the Penn Art Collection expands Philadelphia's public art.
A massive chunk of ice, a new laser, and new information on sea-level rise
For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.
