Stentix Wins 2025 Y-Prize Competition News / February 26, 2025 This year’s Y-Prize competition winner is an ambitious team of undergraduates aiming to bring Penn-developed technology to patients suffering with bile duct obstructions. Their proposed product, Stentix, has been awarded $10,000 to get this work off the ground with preliminary research and prototype design throughout the next five years. The Y-Prize, a... Read More
Rivers in a Changing World News / December 3, 2024 he history of Philadelphia’s water lies mostly underground, buried and dormant. Watershed maps show a slow and persistent erasure of the streams that once covered the city, branching capillaries that stretched from Chestnut Hill to South Philadelphia. With 73% of the city’s waterways piped, visible water now exists mostly in large bodies:... Read More
Academic Resilience Meets Startup Grit: My Ph.D. Journey Through Penn and Beyond News / November 20, 2024 A week after defending my Ph.D. dissertation, I’m still decompressing from the whirlwind of my five years at Penn Engineering. It’s been an intense, exhilarating, and deeply rewarding journey—one that’s transformed me in ways I never anticipated. During college, I took a gap year to intern at three different companies... Read More
The Secrets of Baseball’s Magic Mud News / November 4, 2024 The unique properties of baseball’s famed “magic” mud have never been scientifically quantified — until now. In a new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science (Penn Engineering) and School of Arts & Sciences (SAS) reveal what makes... Read More
New Technique Enhances Absorptivity of Powders for Metal 3D Printing News / October 8, 2024 In a significant advancement for metal additive manufacturing, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and their academic partners have developed a groundbreaking technique that enhances the optical absorptivity of metal powders used in 3D printing. The innovative approach, which involves creating nanoscale surface features on metal powders, promises to improve the... Read More
Cynthia Sung On How We Can Increase Girls’ Participation in Engineering and Robotics News / June 4, 2024 Despite the growing importance of engineering and robotics in shaping our future, women remain significantly underrepresented in these fields. This series aims to explore and address the barriers that discourage girls from pursuing careers in engineering and robotics. We are talking to educators, industry leaders, pioneering women engineers, and robotics... Read More
Carpick Research Group Contributes to Pixelligent Success Story News / May 20, 2024 Penn Engineering faculty bring the spirit of entrepreneurship to life through their collaborations in a wide range of startups, products and external partnerships each year. The research group led by Rob Carpick, John Henry Towne Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and in Material Science and Engineering, has long-supported the... Read More
Teaching Doglike Robots to Walk on the Moon’s Dusty, Icy Surface News / April 18, 2024 At an elevation of around 6,000 feet near Mount Hood, located roughly 70 miles east of Portland, an interdisciplinary team comprising members from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Texas A&M University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Oregon State University, Temple University, and NASA, embarked on a field mission. The group of engineers, cognitive... Read More
Understanding the Northeast Earthquake News / April 8, 2024 Last week, people in the Northeast, including many at Penn, experienced an unusual disruption to their day as the ground beneath and walls around started to shake for about half a minute. The magnitude 4.8 earthquake was, for some, a once in a lifetime occurrence. Centered in New Jersey, the... Read More
At Ben Talks NYC, A Journey from Ocean Depths to Outer Space News / March 5, 2024 On a brisk night in January overlooking the skating rink in New York’s Bryant Park, alumni took a journey from the depths of the sea to the outer reaches of space, as part of the annual Ben Talks NYC, a series that began nearly a decade ago. This year’s event... Read More
