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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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How severed cockroach legs could help us ‘fully rebuild’ human bodies
David Meaney of the School of Engineering and Applied Science oversees an undergraduate bioengineering lab that uses cockroach legs to teach students to work with human prostheses.
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This radical new metal from outer space could transform everything—from electric vehicles to nuclear submarines
Analysts at the Weitzman School of Design’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy predict that the need for dysprosium will increase by more than 2,500 percent by 2035.
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The 2017 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards
Cynthia Sung of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is recognized for her research of flat-pack robots.