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Buildings that cool like African elephants
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Buildings that cool like African elephants

Inspired by the cracked, water-trapping skin of elephants, Penn researchers have developed a low-cost cement tile that cools buildings by capturing and slowly evaporating water—turning a structural flaw into a climate solution.

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What is an NPU? A Penn expert explains
A computer chip being placed by a rubber-gloved hand.

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    • What is an NPU? A Penn expert explains

    Benjamin C. Lee, a professor of electrical and systems engineering, explains what a neural processing unit (NPU) is and why it matters in the age of artificial intelligence.

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    Performer, biomedical engineer, and soon-to-be graduate
    Jordyn Harris standing among lights

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    Performer, biomedical engineer, and soon-to-be graduate

    A performer and dancer, fourth-year Jordyn Harris has been a work-study student for the Platt House and managed tech for myriad student shows, while also advising engineering first-years and working as a researcher at a hospital.

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    Penn students develop AI-driven solution to transform senior care
    Nami Lindquist, Melanie Herbert, and Alex Popescu

    Melanie Herbert (center), a fourth-year in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, created Sync Labs—an innovative AI solution that addresses caregiving in senior care. Joined by Nami Lindquist (left) of the Wharton School and Penn Engineering and Alex Popescu of Penn Engineering (right) their technology, which has earned them the 2025 President’s Innovation Prize, allows caregivers to see three times more seniors while providing more personalized care.

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    Penn students develop AI-driven solution to transform senior care

    Fourth-year students Melanie Herbert, Nami Lindquist, and Alexandra Popescu were awarded the President’s Innovation Prize for Sync Labs, a privacy-centered AI system to address the growing caregiving gap in senior care

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    2025 CAREER Award recipient: Jina Ko

    2025 CAREER Award recipient: Jina Ko

    Ko, a professor in bioengineering in Penn Engineering and in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine, is awarded the 2025 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for her expertise across bioengineering, molecular biology, and chemistry in developing transformative technologies for molecular diagnostics of diseases, especially with respect to how brain-related conditions are diagnosed and treated.

    Innate immune training aggravates inflammatory bone loss
    Osteoclasts resorbing bone

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    Innate immune training aggravates inflammatory bone loss

    Researchers from the School of Dental Medicine and international collaborators from Germany have investigated the effects of training the innate immune system in experimental models of chronic inflammatory disease, periodontitis and arthritis.
    Chinatown and community as a cornerstone
    Will Chan leans against a reflective class in the Pan-Asian American Community House

    As a Thouron Scholar and a Ph.D. candidate in theoretical physics, Will Chan also works as an advocate for building Asian communities at Penn as president of the Pan-Asian Graduate Student Association and the sponsorships and partnerships lead at the Ginger Arts Center, a youth-led organization in Philadelphia’s Chinatown.

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    Chinatown and community as a cornerstone

    Will Chan, a Thouron Scholar and Ph.D. candidate in theoretical physics, is also an advocate for building Asian communities.

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    Breakthrough in energy-saving process could transform data storage
    Ritesh Agarwal looks through a microscope in his lab.

    Ritesh Agarwal is the Srinivasa Ramanujan Distinguished Scholar and a professor of materials science and engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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    Breakthrough in energy-saving process could transform data storage

    Researchers led by Ritesh Agarwal of the School of Engineering and Applied Science have discovered a groundbreaking, ultra-low-energy method for creating amorphous materials, which could boost the efficiency of phase-change memory technology, potentially revolutionizing data storage.

    Penn solutions to climate change
    Banner that reads climate week at Penn

    At a Climate Week event, Penn’s Climate Solutions Showcase, a group of faculty and researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Weitzman School of Design presented innovative strategies to combat the causes and effects of climate change.

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    Penn solutions to climate change

    As society grapples with the impacts of a worsening climate—from the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events to rising sea levels and deadly heat waves—the need for actionable solutions has never been greater, Penn researchers say.