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Penn’s Nader Engheta Receives Electromagnetics Award
PHILADELPHIA — Nader Engheta received the 2012 IEEE Electromagnetics Award at a ceremony Wednesday evening in Chicago. He is the H.
Researchers From Penn, Michigan and Duke Study How Cooperation Can Trump Competition in Monkeys
PHILADELPHIA— Being the top dog — or, in this case, the top gelada monkey — is even better if the alpha male is willing to concede at times to subordinates, according to a study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan and Duke University.
Penn Engineers Convert a Natural Plant Protein Into Drug-delivery Vehicles
PHILADELPHIA — Finding biocompatible carriers that can get drugs to their targets in the body involves significant challenges. Beyond practical concerns of manufacturing and loading these vehicles, the carriers must work effectively with the drug and be safe to consume.
Penn Researchers Improve Living Tissues With 3D Printed Vascular Networks Made From Sugar
PHILADELPHIA — Researchers are hopeful that new advances in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine could one day make a replacement liver from a patient’s own cells, or animal muscle tissue that could be cut into steaks without ever being inside a cow.
SAS prof expands the use of carbon nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes have long intrigued physicists and engineers. Their microscopic size and tremendous strength make them ideal candidates for construction materials, and their conductive properties mean they can be used like wires in tiny electrical devices.
Penn Researchers Show ‘Neural Fingerprints’ of Memory Associations
PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers have long been interested in discovering the ways that human brains represent thoughts through a complex interplay of electrical signals. Recent improvements in brain recording and statistical methods have given researchers unprecedented insight into the physical processes underlying thoughts. For example, researchers have begun to show that it is possib
Penn Researchers’ Study of Phase Change Materials Could Lead to Better Computer Memory
PHILADELPHIA -- Memory devices for computers require a large collection of components that can switch between two states, which represent the 1’s and 0’s of binary language. Engineers hope to make next-generation chips with materials that distinguish between these states by physically rearranging their atoms into different phases.
Penn Offering Postdoctoral Fellowships to Promote Academic Diversity
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
Penn’s New Media Manager Gets the Message Out
PHILADELPHIA —About three-quarters of Americans have Internet access in their homes, and most of them have Facebook accounts.