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12.21.20 | Atomic-scale apertures represent a novel regime in physics and materials science

12.14.20 | Firooz Aflatouni Wins 2020 Bell Labs Prize

12.07.20 | Marc Miskin Wins Two Young Investigator Awards for Microrobotic Research

11.30.20 | Penn joins ‘cryo revolution’ by adding Nobel-winning microscope

11.02.20 | Penn Professor Nader Engheta has been selected to receive the 2020 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics (UK).

10.20.20 | Penn Students fare well in Bottom of the Sea Image Contest

08.24.20 | NSF renews investment in National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure

08.10.20 | Position Search Announcement: Director, Quattrone Nanofabrication Facility

08.03.20 | Penn Engineers Manipulate Color on the Nanoscale, Making it Disappear

08.03.20 | Berwyn’s Nader Engheta is a Pioneer in the Field of MetaMaterials

07.11.20 | Karen Winey Earns Pair of Scholarly Awards For Her Work on Polymer Science

06.05.20 | Dan Huh Receives Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grant for Placenta-on-a-chip Research

05.21.20 | Using stress to shape microlevel structures

05.15.20 | Penn Engineers, Liang Feng and Ritesh Agarwal, Develop First Tunable, Chip-based ‘Vortex Microlaser’ and Detector, Encode Information in Twisting Beams of Light

05.06.20 | Daeyeon Lee Named Evan C Thompson Term Chair for Excellence in Teaching

04.27.20 | Kathleen Stebe, among four Penn faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

04.21.20 | Penn Engineers’ ‘Nanocardboard’ Flyers Could Serve as Martian Atmospheric Probes

04.06.20 | Penn Engineering’s New Scavenger Technology Allows Robots to ‘Eat’ Metal for Energy

03.31.20 | Sharing Supplies

03.14.20 | The Optical Society Names Nader Engheta the 2020 Max Born Award Recipient

03.06.20 | Mark Allen is selected to receive the 2020 IEEE Benjamin Franklin Key Award from the IEEE Philadelphia Section

02.06.20 | Magnetic microrobots use capillary forces to coax particles into position

02.05.20 | Tiny bridges

02.03.20 | Engineers collaborate to create electroadhesive grippers

01.17.20 | New astronomical instrument on the hunt for exoplanets