5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Apple’s ‘Differential Privacy’ Is About Collecting Your Data – but Not Your Data
Aaron Roth of the School of Engineering and Applied Science explains differential privacy and data collection.
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Service Robots Are Coming to Help Us
Mark Yim of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is quoted on how robots can be commercially viable.
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What You Need to Know About the New Study on Cellphones and Cancer
Kenneth Foster of the School of Engineering and Applied Science comments on a new study of cellphone safety.
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Penn Engineering Launches New Research Facility at Pennovation Works
The new Penn Engineering Research and Collaboration Hub (PERCH) at the Pennovation Center is featured.
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Quest for Robo-Yellen Advances as Computers Gain on Rate Setters
Michael Kearns of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is quoted about applying artificial intelligence and machine-learning principles to central banking.
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Cards Against Humanity Just Paid for a Young Woman’s College Tuition
Undergraduate Sona Dadhania is highlighted for receiving the Science Ambassador Scholarship.
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Spiral Zipper Creates Robot Arm Out of a Strip of Plastic
Mark Yim and May graduate Foster Collins of the School of Engineering and Applied Science are highlighted for developing a spherical robot arm with a spiral zipper joint.
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Feel Me
Katherine Kuchenbecker of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is highlighted for overseeing the haptics group at the GRASP lab and playing an integral role in the science of replicating touch.
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DNA Errors Could Make Lab-made Stem Cells Fail, Scientists Say
Research about the impact of DNA-folding errors in laboratory-made stem cells conducted by Jennifer Phillips-Cremins and graduate student Jonathan Beagan of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is featured.
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Here Is the Surprising Winner of Last Week’s UberPITCH Event
MBA students Siddharth Shah, Shashwata Narain of the Wharton School and graduate student Alexander David of the School of Engineering and Applied Science are featured for creating Fermento, a technology that speeds up the fermentation process in beer production. This was technology was develop in the lab of David Issadore of Engineering.