Artificial Versus Real Grass: How the Difference Changes the Game

Artificial Versus Real Grass

As the summer sports season comes into full swing this month, millions of fans worldwide will spend time seeing green. From stadium seats to living room couches, fans will watch their favorite players run, cut, slide, and land on blades of grass. “But not all grass is created equal,” says mechanical engineering professor, tennis player, […]

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Ottman Tertuliano Named 2026 CIFAR Global Scholar

The 2026 CIFAR Global Scholars program is an international initiative that supports early-career researchers pursuing interdisciplinary, high-impact research.

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When Bone Behaves Like a Sponge

Penn engineers developed a nanoengineered, 3D-printed scaffold that recreates the complex forces experienced inside bone, giving researchers a new way to observe how living cells respond to mechanical stress.

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