When Wensi Wu, Research Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), first stepped into the world of computational modeling, she wasn’t thinking about … Read More ›
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Increasingly, neural processing units (NPUs) are making their way into consumer electronics: laptops, high-end tablets, phones, and more. But what do they do, and why … Read More ›
The Benjamin Franklin Scholars (BFS) program at the University of Pennsylvania is an interdisciplinary initiative designed for students across all four undergraduate schools: Arts & … Read More ›
Prions, mysterious shape-shifting proteins, can lead to brain disorders such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, “mad cow disease” in cattle, yet … Read More ›
Since the discovery of penicillin nearly a century ago, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become a stealthy, pervasive enemy in the fight against bacterial infections. AMR … Read More ›
In the latest episode of Penn Engineering’s Innovation & Impact podcast, host Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering and Professor in Mechanical Engineering … Read More ›
A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can … Read More ›
When Hurricane Katrina reached the Gulf Coast in 2005, emergency responders were blindsided by a storm surge that defied predictions. In Japan six years later, … Read More ›
In a sunlit conference room in Amy Gutmann Hall, a group of researchers convenes for a regular lunch meeting. Physicists converse with linguists, computer scientists … Read More ›
The second annual Penn Forum on Quantum Systems (Penn FoQuS 2025), an event organized by the Penn Center for Quantum Information, Engineering, Science and Technology … Read More ›