Evan Lerner

By Madeleine Stone  @themadstone        (This is the fifth and last in a series of features introducing the inaugural Penn President’s Engagement Prize winners.)  

Beauty, it has been said, is in the eye of the beholder. People’s opinions on what constitutes an attractive face changes over time and from place to place.

At the fifth annual Philly Robotics Expo (PRX) on April 20, several hundred local grade-, middle-, and high-school students poured into the Singh Center for Nanotechnology with their machines in tow.

Members of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) have released the first in a series of maps that show the concentration of dark matter in the cosmos.

Adolescence is a time of frequent and intense emotional experiences, but some youth handle their emotions better than others. Why do some young people react adaptively while others ruminate?

By Madeleine Stone @themadstone        (This is the second in a series of features introducing the inaugural Penn President’s Engagement Prize winners.)  

Members of the Dark Energy Survey have released the first in a series of maps that show the concentration of dark matter in the cosmos.

WHO:            Randall Kamien                       Shu Yang                      XingTing Gong                      Daniel Sussman

Why do some people learn a new skill right away, while others only gradually improve? Whatever else may be different about their lives, something must be happening in their brains that captures this variation.

by Sarah Welsh After a two-year hiatus, the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is gearing up for its second run. The LHC enabled the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, which gives mass to all particles, but the world’s most complicated scientific apparatus is far from finished