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Soft materials, sustainability, and the environment
Chinedum Osuji.

Chinedum Osuji, a faculty fellow of the Environmental Innovations Initiative and the Eduardo D. Glandt Chair and a professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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Soft materials, sustainability, and the environment

Chinedum Osuji, a faculty fellow of the Environmental Innovations Initiative, discusses his research and its connections to sustainability and the environment, and how industry and researchers can work better together.

From the Environmental Innovations Initiative

Duncan Watts and CSSLab’s New Media Bias Detector
Cropped Hands Of Journalists Interviewing a politician.

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Duncan Watts and CSSLab’s New Media Bias Detector

PIK Professor Duncan Watts and colleagues have developed the Media Bias Detector, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze news articles, examining factors like tone, partisan lean, and fact selection.
Exploring the limits of robotic systems
A robotic arm in a lab.

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Exploring the limits of robotic systems

Bruce Lee, a doctoral student in Penn Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, offers insights into the fundamental limits of machine learning.

From Penn Engineering Today

The limits of ChatGPT for scriptwriting
Robots around a larger-than-life-size typewriter.

ChatGPT routinely censors premises and scripts from history’s most-watched TV shows.

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The limits of ChatGPT for scriptwriting

A paper co-authored by experts at Penn Engineering found that ChatGPT’s overzealous content moderation could potentially limit artistic expression.

Ian Scheffler

How unflagged, factual content drives vaccine hesitancy
Many hands holding smartphones and other sources of information about COVID-19.

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How unflagged, factual content drives vaccine hesitancy

A new paper from computational social scientist Duncan Watts examines how factual, vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook has a greater overall effect than “fake news,” discouraging millions from the COVID-19 shot.

From Penn Engineering Today

Recognizing a pioneer: Penn Engineering’s Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper in Naval gear introducing a computer system to a student.

Grace Hopper, then head of the Navy Programming Language Section of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, discusses a phase of her work with a staff member in August 1976.

(Image: U.S. Navy photo by PH2 David C. MacLean)

Recognizing a pioneer: Penn Engineering’s Grace Hopper

Hopper was honored for developing the A-0 compiler, an early innovation in computer programming.

From Penn Engineering Today

Unlocking the next generation of wireless communications
Gloved hand holding a quarter next to the filter to indicate its small size.

 The new filter, which is about the size of a quarter, could revolutionize wireless communications.

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Unlocking the next generation of wireless communications

Penn Engineers have developed an adjustable filter, about the size of a quarter, with potential to revolutionize wireless communications.

Ian Scheffler

Penn Engineering’s Ottman Tertuliano receives a 2024 CAREER Award
Ottman Tertuliano.

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Penn Engineering’s Ottman Tertuliano receives a 2024 CAREER Award

Tertuliano’s research on bone fractures at the nanoscale allows for research on two separate time scales: the forming of cracks in a fracture at 1 micrometer/second, and the cellular response and repair time scale, a much lengthier process.

From Penn Engineering Today

Brewing brilliance
Nader Engheta and Firooz Aflatouni sit at a table clutching Penn-branded mugs filled with tea.

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Brewing brilliance

Nader Engheta and Firooz Aflatouni of Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science turn tea time into new ideas.