Popular Science magazine has named Penn Engineering’s Katherine Kuchenbecker to

Everyone from hardcore material scientists to "Jersey Shore" celebrities benefit from nanotechnology, the next great field of engineering expected to change everything from drug delivery to the way we apply sunscreen.

Top: Fourth-year Penn Vet student Nikkita Patel.

PHILADELPHIA –- University of Pennsylvania biologists studying human reproduction have identified what is likely the major contributing factor to the maternal age-associated increase in aneuploidy, the term for an abnormal number of chromosomes during reproductive cell division.

WHO:Penn student volunteers and their middle-school partners will launch rockets and power boats as part of a week-long summer course designed to get young people excited about science and technology. WHAT:

PHILADELPHIA –- A White House report analyzing the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on innovation, science and technology has drawn praise from United for Medical Research.

Actor and comedian CJ Jones signs the “Highlights of the Galleries” tour in American Sign Language at the Penn Museum and brings new expression to the objects in the galleries.

PHILADELPHIA  -– A study at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has identified the function of one of the earliest antibodies in the animal kingdom, an ancient immunoglobulin that helps explain the evolution of human intestinal immune responses.  It was discovered to play a predominant role in the guts of fish and paves

PHILADELPHIA –- The Positive Psychology Center of the University of Pennsylvania and the John Templeton Foundation have announced the recipients of the 2010 Templeton Positive Neuroscience Awards, $2.9 million given to 15 new research projects at the intersection of neuroscience and positive psychology.

  Engineering students and faculty from Penn’s General Robotics, Automation Sensing and Perception Lab have been chosen as one of six international teams to compete in the 2010 MAGIC Finals, to be held Nov.