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SEAS students hack gaming device to help visually impaired

SEAS students hack gaming device to help visually impaired

Despite amazing advances in computers and cameras, people with serious visual impairments are often aided with the most basic technology imaginable: a cane.

Evan Lerner

Wistar looking up

Wistar looking up

A Penn neighbor will soon reach grand new heights.

Penn Team Wins Entrepreneurial Innovation Award

Penn Team Wins Entrepreneurial Innovation Award

PHILADELPHIA — The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected a University of Pennsylvania team as a member of its inaugural class of NSF Innovation Corps awards. The I-Corps Awards recognize research that has the potential for commercial applications and connects scientists to entrepreneurial resources.

Evan Lerner

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu to Speak at Penn

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu to Speak at Penn

 WHO:           Steven Chu                       Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the U.S. secretary of energy

Evan Lerner

Penn Physicists’ New Manufacturing Technique Means Higher Quality Nanotube Devices

Penn Physicists’ New Manufacturing Technique Means Higher Quality Nanotube Devices

PHILADELPHIA -- Major advances in materials science and nanotechnology promise to revolutionize electronic devices with unprecedented strength and conductivity, but those promises can’t be fulfilled if the devices can’t be consistently manufactured.

Evan Lerner

Penn Researcher Helps Identify 'Superfast' Muscles Responsible for Bat Echolocation

Penn Researcher Helps Identify 'Superfast' Muscles Responsible for Bat Echolocation

PHILADELPHIA – As nocturnal animals, bats rely echolocation to navigate and hunt prey. By bouncing sound waves off objects, including the bugs that are their main diet, bats can produce an accurate representation of their environment in total darkness.

Evan Lerner

Penn Researchers Develop New Technique for Filling Gaps in Fossil Record

Penn Researchers Develop New Technique for Filling Gaps in Fossil Record

PHILADELPHIA — University of Pennsylvania evolutionary biologists have resolved a long-standing paleontological problem by reconciling the fossil record of species diversity with modern DNA samples.

Evan Lerner

Student Spotlight with Kevin Conley

Student Spotlight with Kevin Conley

WHIZ KID: A self-proclaimed computer hacker, Kevin Conley, 21, a senior in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, has developed a social networking application called SMSPersonFinder