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12.21.15 | UPenn Engineering Professor Nader Engheta recognized by National Academy of Inventors as a 2015 NAI Fellow

12.21.15 | Penn Researchers Use Network Science to Help Pinpoint Source of Seizures

12.08.15 | Penn Researchers Make Thinnest Plates That Can Be Picked Up by Hand

12.02.15 | Four Penn Professors Among Class of 2015 AAAS Fellows

12.01.15 | Penn Researchers Discover Why E. coli Move Faster in Syrup-like Fluids Than in Water

11.30.15 | Nano/Bio Interface Center Recognizes Student Achievements at Penn’s NanoDay 2015

11.25.15 | Penn Chemists Put a New Twist on Chirality

11.20.15 | Penn’s GRASP Lab Receives $5.5 Million for ‘Fast, Light and Autonomous’ Flying Robots

11.19.15 | Penn President Amy Gutmann to Receive 2015 Doer Award From Urban Affairs Coalition

11.19.15 | Penn Engineering team showcases ‘eye-on-a-chip’ technology

11.16.15 | Penn Collaborating in NSF’s Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub

11.09.15 | Penn Leads International Collaboration to Re-engineer Disaster Tents

11.09.15 | Penn Engineering prof maps brain changes between childhood and adulthood

11.09.15 | Photos from the 2015 Singh Center for Nanotechnology Annual Meeting

10.02.15 | Engineering’s Danielle Bassett led a collaborative study that used “wiring diagrams” of the brain to show how the frontal cortex is able to control thoughts and actions.

09.18.15 | Penn’s Singh Center Receives $5 Million NSF Grant to Establish Mid-Atlantic Nanotechnology Hub

09.09.15 | Penn engineers design material that could help diagnose concussions

09.09.15 | Engineering Sophomore at Penn Researches Deception and Humor in Business

09.09.15 | Bytes and Bots

09.03.15 | Penn and German Researchers Help Identify Neural Basis of Multitasking

08.28.15 | “Flying Start.” UPenn Engineering Dean Vijay Kumar

08.21.15 | Penn Researchers Use Nanoscopic Pores to Investigate Protein Structure

07.24.15 | Penn Researchers Discover New Chiral Property of Silicon, With Photonic Applications

07.22.15 | UPenn Engineering Professor wins grant to study brain

07.22.15 | Researchers at Penn Develop Scar-like Culture Systems to Understand and Treat Fibrosis

07.21.15 | Dr. Mark Allen is named the Recipient of the 2016 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies, which recognizes outstanding contributions to emerging technologies within recent years

07.21.15 | Another Robot to Enter Fukushima Reactor, and We Wish It Were Modular

07.21.15 | Engineering professor wins grant to study brain

07.17.15 | Penn Researchers Answer Question about Nematode Behavior: Nature, Nurture, or Physics?

07.16.15 | Penn Researchers’ New Tracking Method Yields Insights into Mitochondrial Dynamics

07.16.15 | GRASP goes to China.

07.14.15 | Dr. Nader Engheta recieves 2015 SPIE Gold Medal

07.10.15 | New Penn Center Will Investigate the Physics of Cancer Via $10M NIH Grant

07.09.15 | Russell Composto Appointed Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education

06.19.15 | Daniel Lee Appointed UPS Foundation Professor in Transportation

06.18.15 | Penn Researchers Develop a New Type of Gecko-like Gripper

06.11.15 | Nader Engheta Receives 2015 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Achievement Award

06.11.15 | Penn roboticists test their mettle at DARPA challenge

06.09.15 | The Singh Center for Nanotechnology listed among Philadelphia’s “must-see” buildings.

06.09.15 | Penn Engineers Show How “Perfect” Materials Begin to Fail

06.07.15 | The Singh Center for Nanotechnology is currently accepting applications for the position of Marketing Director and Communication strategies. For more information:

05.19.15 | Engineering’s Vijay Kumar and Rahul Mangharam are participating in large-scale National Science Foundation projects on cyber-physical systems with medical applications.

05.14.15 | Senior Design Team “Bionux” Wins First Prize at Intel-Cornell Cup

05.14.15 | Beth Winkelstein Named Vice Provost for Education

05.08.15 | Penn and UC Merced Researchers Match Physical and Virtual Atomic Friction Experiments

05.07.15 | UPenn Professor Danielle Bassett Named 2015 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator

04.21.15 | Penn Center for Innovation Hosts “Penn Tech: Towards the Future Event”

04.08.15 | Penn, Johns Hopkins and UCSB Research: Differences in Neural Activity Change Learning Rate

04.03.15 | Penn Team Discovers New Liquid Crystal Configurations

04.03.15 | Penn Researchers Use ‘Soft’ Nanoparticles to Model Behavior at Interfaces

03.22.15 | UPenn Pofessor awarded the George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research

03.16.15 | UPenn Professors and ExxonMobil Researchers Address Long-standing Mysteries Behind Anti-wear Motor Oil Additive

03.16.15 | Penn Researchers Develop Way of Making Light-bending ‘Raspberry-like Metamolecules’

03.10.15 | Singh Center for Nanotechnology captures 2015 AIANY Design Award

03.10.15 | UPenn Professor Nader Engheta Recipient of 2015 SPIE Gold Medal Award

03.03.15 | UPenn Professor Vijay Kumar named Dean of Penn Engineering

03.02.15 | UPenn Professor David Srolovitz elected to the National Academy of Engineering

02.24.15 | Three UPenn Professors Awarded SLOAN Fellowships

02.02.15 | Singh Center for Nanotechnology Director Talks Nanotechnology