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Nanorobotic system presents new options for targeting fungal infections
Before and after fluorescence imaging of fungal accumilations being removed by microrobots.

Candida albicans is a species of yeast that is a normal part of the human microbiota but can also cause severe infections that pose a significant global health risk due to their resistance to existing treatments, so much so that the World Health Organization has highlighted this as a priority issue. The picture above shows a before (left) and after (right) fluorescence image of fungal biofilms being precisely targeted by nanozyme microrobots without bonding to or disturbing the tissue sample.

(Image: Min Jun Oh and Seokyoung Yoon)

Nanorobotic system presents new options for targeting fungal infections

Researchers from Penn Dental and Penn Engineering have developed a nanorobot system that precisely and rapidly targets fungal infections in the mouth.
Penn welcomes energy justice scholar Sanya Carley
Sanya Carley.

Image: Courtesy of the Weitzman School

Penn welcomes energy justice scholar Sanya Carley

Carley will be the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning in the Weitzman School with an affiliation with the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.

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2018 graduate awarded Knight-Hennessy Scholarship
Krish Mehta standing outside

Krish Mehta has been awarded a 2023 Knight-Hennessy Scholarship for graduate studies and global leadership training at Stanford University. From Mumbai, India, Mehta graduated with dual degrees from the Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science in 2018. 

(Image: Courtesy of Krish Mehta) 

2018 graduate awarded Knight-Hennessy Scholarship

Focused on tackling climate change, 2018 Penn graduate Krish Mehta, from Mumbai, has been awarded a 2023 Knight-Hennessy Scholarship for graduate studies and global leadership training at Stanford University.
Four from Penn awarded Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research
Penn faculty Gustavo Aguirre, Jean Bennett, Albert Maguire, and Samuel Jacobson

This year’s recipients of the Helen Keller Prize from Penn are (clockwise from top left): Gustavo Aguirre, Jean Bennett, Albert Maguire, and the late Samuel Jacobson.

(Images: Penn Vet and Penn Medicine)

Four from Penn awarded Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research

Faculty from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine were honored at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting in New Orleans.

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Cross-disciplinary collaboration for a healthier planet
Four scientists speak in a dairy cow facility

Thomas Parsons of the School of Veterinary Medicine co-leads one of the Environmental Innovations Initiative’s research communities, on regenerative agriculture. The Initiative support synergizes with Penn Vet’s Center for Stewardship Agriculture and Food Security.

(Image: Penn Vet)

Cross-disciplinary collaboration for a healthier planet

The Environmental Innovations Initiative announces a third round of funded research communities to catalyze interdisciplinary research at Penn, investigating issues from regenerative agriculture to project-based learning for global climate justice.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Five from Penn elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023
five individual portraits in a composite

The Academy of Arts and Sciences elected five Penn faculty this year, (left to right): (top) Mirjam Cvetič of the School of Arts & Sciences (SAS); Nader Engheta of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and SAS; and Vivian L. Gadsden of the Graduate School of Education and SAS; (bottom) Petra E. Todd of SAS, and E. John Wherry of the Perelman School of Medicine.

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Five from Penn elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023

Faculty from the School of Arts & Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Graduate School of Education, and Perelman School of Medicine are recognized this year for contributions to physics, engineering and technology, education, economics, and microbiology and immunology.

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Daeyeon Lee delivers lecture on reconnecting in and out of the classroom
Daeyeon Lee points to a slide that reads 'Classroom community' while delivering a lecture.

Daeyeon Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science deliver the 2023 Thompson Chair Lecture on April 4, 2023. He spoke about reconnecting in the classroom and building community. 

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Daeyeon Lee delivers lecture on reconnecting in and out of the classroom

Lee, the Evan C Thompson Term Chair for Excellence in Teaching, recently delivered the 2023 Evan C Thompson Lecture, focusing on how to improve students’ sense of community.
Four Penn students are 2023 Goldwater Scholars
Four students who are winners of 2023 Goldwater Prize

Penn’s newest Goldwater Scholars are (clockwise from top left) third-years Andreas Ghosh, Zijian (William) Niu, Angela Song, and Jason Wang.

(Images: Courtesy of Ghosh, Niu, Song, and Wang)

Four Penn students are 2023 Goldwater Scholars

Goldwater Scholarships are awarded to students planning research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering.