Penn Engineering News Archive
Headlines, Awards and Accomplishments from 2010
Ben Taskar collaborates in the creation of DARPA's "Detection, Explanation, and Prediction of Emerging Network Developments (DEPEND)" system
December 21, 2010George Pappas Receives Ruberti Young Researcher Prize
December 15, 2010Penn Engineering Students Demonstrate State-of-the-art Haptic Human-computer and Human-machine Interfaces
December 14, 2010GRASP Lab Collaborates to create "DARwin – the Next Evolution in Robots"
December 14, 2010Ju Li and postdoctoral fellows Liang Qi and Akihiro Kushima collaborate on the "World’s smallest battery created at CINT nanotechnology center"
December 12, 2010Christopher S. Chen Receives Penn Engineering's Heilmeier Research Award
December 8, 2010AutoPlug Receives First Prize at the 2010 World Embedded Software Competition
December 7, 2010Jessica Wetstone (GRASP), receives Honorable Mention in CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition
December 1, 2010Shu Yang pioneers the nanoscale structure microfabrication in "Color-changing 'Blast Badge' detects exposure to explosive shock waves"
November 29, 2010Digital Media Design trains creative students to combine art, technology
November 29, 2010Chris Chen's research highlighted in "New technique allows researchers to study cell forces in 3-D"
November 24, 2010Katherine Kuchenbecker featured in "From Sports To Science: Stanford's Kuchenbecker"
November 23, 2010Penn Engineering Team Places Second at MAGIC 2010
November 23, 2010Daily Pennsylvanian shows "Woman engineers maintain strong presence in male-dominated SEAS"
November 23, 2010Beth Winkelstein Receives $3.1 Million DoD Grant
November 22, 2010Penn Engineering senior Sid Chandrasekar advances to semi-finals on Jeopardy! College Edition
November 11, 2010Raymond Gorte comments on Discovery News "Diesel: The Fuel of the Future?"
November 9, 2010Penn Genome Frontiers Institute (PGFI) to Launch Personalized Genomics Centers
November 9, 2010Dennis Discher a keynote speaker at the University of Sydney's third annual University Tissue Engineering Network symposium
November 8, 2010Michael Kearns quoted in Science News "Trading places," regarding the optimal locations on earth for financial trading
October 30, 2010Dan Lee spotlighted in "SEAS Prof addresses fear of robots on The Colbert Report"
October 29, 2010Katherine Kuchenbecker profiled in the Penn Current Q&A
October 28, 2010Vukan Vuchic, a keynote speaker at the World Urban Transit Conference, states "for a smoother ride, open doors faster"
October 21, 2010Penn Genome Frontiers Institute wins "Next-Generation Storage" solution area of the Brocade and Network Computing Magazine Ultimate Network Challenge
October 18, 2010Penn Bioengineers Awarded DOD Grant to Study the Neuronal Effects of Blasts, Tackles and Collisions
October 14, 2010Alums Michael Highland, Kevin Jenkins and Alfred Hanssen spotlighted in "Philly's their game"
October 13, 2010Katherine Kuchenbecker named one of Popular Science's "Brilliant 10"
October 13, 2010Penn Almanac features Ritesh Agarwal in "NIH Awards Two Penn Researchers 2010 New Innovator Award"
October 12, 2010In "The Flash Crash: Autopsy," Michael Kearns comments on stock-market flash crashes.
October 7, 2010AWE Program profiled in "Expanding the Pipeline: Advancing Women in Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania"
October 5, 2010Shu Yang collaborates to "seek new tools to flag concussions"
October 5, 2010Yiyi Zhou, Penn Engineering senior in DMD, organizes first-ever TEDxPenn Conference
October 4, 2010Ritesh Agarwal Receives 2010 NIH New Innovator Award
October 1, 2010Matthew Blaze quoted in "FBI Drive for Encryption Backdoors is Déjà vu for Security Experts"
September 28, 2010Jonathan Smith's research collaboration featured in "$7.5 Million from NSF to Contribute 'Nebula' to Next Internet"
September 28, 2010Michael Kearns' research cited in "High-Frequency Trading: Not as Profitable as You Think"
September 27, 2010PRECISE Center receives $5M NSF Grant for "Assuring the Safety of Medical Devices"
September 24, 2010Shu Yang leads a team of researchers to "tap into cell power to create building 'skins' that adapt to heat/light of environment"
September 22, 2010"PhillyDeals: Penn's flying robots have grasped the imagination" features the origination and purpose of the quadro-rotor drone
September 21, 2010"Indoor flying searchcraft from the robot labs at Penn" features GRASP Lab's quadro-rotor flying robot
September 21, 2010"Profs collaborate to design futuristic building" features research collaboration led by Shu Yang
September 17, 2010GRASP Lab's famous drone profiled in "The Quadrotor Drone Learns Several Terrifying New Tricks"
September16, 2010"Awards make waves in Penn Engineering" featured in the Daily Pennsylvanian
September 15, 2010Shu Yang receives Nanotechnology Institute award to "work on developing materials for nanotech-enabled medical devices"
September 15, 2010Christopher Chen's group gives "New Insights Into How Stem Cells Determine What Tissue to Become"
September 2, 2010Penn Engineering Awarded $7.5 Million from NSF to Contribute 'Nebula' to Next Internet Architecture
September 2, 2010Rajeev Alur Receives 2010 LICS Test-of-Time Award
September 2, 2010Jonathan Smith's project, "Nebula," featured in "Re-thinking the Internet with security and mobility in mind"
September 1, 2010"Sowing the Seeds of Scientific Discovery: A Celebration of David Pope, His Legacy, and Influence," an Honorary Symposium
September 1, 2010Jonathan Smith's project NEBULA one of the NSF's Future Internet Architecture Awards
August 30, 2010Bioengineers Create Simulator to Test Blood Platelets in Virtual Heart Attacks
August 30, 2010Alejandro Ribeiro Receives NSF CAREER Award
August 24, 2010CIS research shows "Sticky finger risk to touchscreen phone security" as oily residue can be read to extract passwords
August 12, 2010In "Girls rule at Penn GEMS," middle school girls are provided a fun introduction to Engineering, Math and Science
August 11, 2010"Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Traders" quotes Michael Kearns
August 4, 2010Christopher Chen: Mechanical regulation of cell substrates affects stem cell development, adhesion
August 2, 2010Penn's MAGIC2010 Team is a top finalist in the Multi Autonomous Ground-Robotic International Challenge
July 26, 2010Michael Kearns cited in "Why Facebook friends are worth keeping"
July 15, 2010Brian Litt's Better Brain Implants featured in "Better Living Through Implants"
July 15, 2010GRASP Lab's Quadrotors featured in the New York Times "Five Robots to Watch"
July 15, 2010Michael Kearns interviewed on CNBC's "Trading: Man vs. Machine"
July 14, 2010BotJunkie features GRASP Lab in "Quadrotors Cooperate To Lift Heavy Objects"
July 12, 2010Scott L. Diamond and Manash S. Chatterjee part of a team to create a vitual heart attack simulator to test blood platelets
June 20, 2010Penn's Master of Science in Bioetechnology featured in Science's "Professional Science Master's Degrees"
June 18, 2010GRASP Lab part of the General Dynamics-led team awarded a Tech Alliance Agreement
June 8, 2010Google purchases Invite Media, a startup founded by CIS alums Scott Becker and JJ Geewax
June 4, 2010Alan Myers Honored as International Adsorption Society Founder
June 4, 2010GRASP Lab's Stealthy Remote-Controlled Drone Can Sneak Through Windows, Vents
June 2, 2010Barry Silverman's virtual Afghan Village featured in "Knowing the enemy, one avatar at a time"
May 30, 2010Nader Engheta on "going wireless" in the construction of more powerful microchips
May 26, 2010Vukan Vuchic on, "Rail renaming is a mistake: SEPTA should reconsider its new way of designating regional lines"
May 26, 2010Penn-Led Collaboration Mimics Library of Bio-Membranes for Use In Nanomedicine, Drug Delivery
May 20, 2010Penn Bioengineers Say Cellular Workouts Strengthen Endothelial Cells' Grasp
May 13, 2010Paulo Arratia Receives NSF CAREER Award
May 13, 2010Philadelphia Business Journal reports on the GRASP Lab's new PR2 Robot, one of 11 robots awarded by Willow Garage
May 12, 2010GRASP Lab selected to receive one of 11 PR2 Robots developed by Willow Garage
May 4, 2010Zachary Ives Awarded a Lindback Award, Penn's Highest Teaching Honor
April 20, 2010Penn Engineering rises four places to 23rd in the 2010 U.S. News "Best Graduate Schools" rankings
April 15, 2010DMD alums Michael Highland and Keith McKnight spotlighted in Technically Philly's "Shop Talk: The DIY game-makers of Port127"
April 14, 2010Alum Nathan Schreiber, DMD 2003, has been nominated for an Eisner award for Best Digital Comic by Comic-Con International
April 9, 2010Digital Media Design program boldly going where no engineers have gone before
April 8, 2010ModLab's CKBots demonstrate configuration recognition and self-assembly after an "explosion"
April 6, 2010Ben Taskar named a 2010 Young Investigator by the Office of Naval Research (ONR)
April 5, 2010Nanotechnologists at Penn and Columbia Reveal the Frictional Characteristics of Atomically Thin Sheets
April 4, 2010Douglas Glanville, Penn Engineering alum and Overseer, has joined ESPN as a baseball analyst
April 1, 2010Sudipto Guha comments on "Data Streaming 2.0," discussing real-time Web, in which new data streaming applications have evolved
March 31, 2010Introducing Gurubhakts, the gesture-controlled leader-follower robots developed by master's students Jitender Bishnoi and Rahul Khosla
March 31, 2010Prashant Purohit is 2010 recipient of the ASEE Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award
March 31, 2010Computer and Information Science department receives Google grant to host a CS4HS workshop for high school teachers this summer
March 30, 2010Daeyeon Lee Receives 2010 Victor K. LaMer Award for outstanding graduate research in colloid and surface chemistry
March 29, 2010Vukan Vuchic weighs in on ridership numbers and predictability of future usage of new MetroRail service in Austin, Texas
March 27, 2010Penn Engineering Haptics Group's project "Tactile Gaming Vest" (TGV) on display at the 2010 IEEE Haptics Symposium
March 26, 2010Jason Merrin, DMD freshman, takes Second Place and Audience Choice Award at 2010 Penn Student Film Festival for his film, "Yin/Yang"
March 26, 2010A discussion of Penn Engineering's strategic plan for research, technology and academics in "A Q&A with SEAS Dean Eduardo Glandt"
March 25, 2010Engineering students host a screening of "La Nana (The Maid)" as a fundraiser for Chilean earthquake relief efforts
March 22, 2010Roch Guerin, Ph.D. student Eric Kwong and collaborators receive Best Paper Award at the IEEE INFOCOM 2010 Conference
March 17, 2010Research by Robert Carpick and collaborators may keep Moore's Law alive through near-frictionless diamond-like nanomaterials
March 10, 2010Joseph Bordogna a featured speaker at event to advance collaboration around Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education
March 10, 2010Louis J. Soslowsky Winner of the 2010 AAOS Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughan Award by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery
March 10, 2010Vukan Vuchic of SEAS comments on SEPTA's decision to abandon the 'R' designation of their regional rail service
March 4, 2010Ravi Desai, Ph.D. Candidate, is the recipient of the 2009 JCS Prize from the Journal of Cell Science
March 3, 2010Robert Carpick's Research Group Part of a Nanotechnology Collaboration to Form Near-Frictionless Diamond Material
February 26, 2010Designs for the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology Approved at Facilities and Campus Planning Trustee Meeting
February 25, 2010"Turning Light into Current in Molecular Arrays with Plasmons," features NBIC research to turn light into electrical current in porphyrin molecules
February 24, 2010Dan Gianola's work featured in "Stressed nanomaterials display unexpected movement," in which nano materials exhibit surprising activity
February 24, 2010Happy Birthday, ENIAC: The Information Age, Born at Penn, Celebrates Another Birthday
February 23, 2010GRASP Lab alum John Spletzer featured in Philadelphia Inquirer's "Wheelchair on the go," a new robotic smart wheelchair
February 22, 2010Vasek Vitek elected an Honorary Member of the Japan Institute of Metals (JIM)
February 19, 2010Ben Taskar Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
February 17, 2010Rajeev Alur Awarded the 2010 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research
February 17, 2010Dennis Discher in "Healing touch: the key to regenerating bodies," a focus on the sense of touch used by cells and implications for future research
February 16, 2010Like Father, Like Son: Mukesh Ambani the Torch Bearer to shape the future of energy in India after identifying bio-fuels as an energy source
February 15, 2010Is the R designation too confusing? Vukan Vuchic feels SEPTA is mistaken in its decision to remove the R designations from train lines
February 15, 2010"If such fields were any sort of health threat, scientists wouldn't have to sort through...statistics to find trouble," says Ken Foster on EMFs
February 15, 2010"Low-level EMFs have little to no effect on human health" says Ken Foster, who has followed research on EMFs since the 1970s
February 15, 2010Ken Foster weighs in on studies regarding Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) and their possible effects on human health
February 15, 2010David Meaney part of a team to review research done by the NFL's helmet testing project to address player safety with respect to concussions
February 15, 2010"Making a Sustainability Perspective Second Nature in Education" spotlights Penn Engineering's efforts in pairing technology and education
February 11, 2010Andrew Tsourkas Receives NSF CAREER Award
February 10, 2010National Robotics Week is coming: GRASP Lab partners with nation-wide initiative to increase awareness of robotics technologies
February 8, 2010"Relying on the American model," Dean's Medal recipient Mukesh Ambani will launch a new world-class university in India
February 8, 2010Dawn Bonnell and fellow Penn Engineering researchers are credited with developing the self-powered photovoltaic circuit
February 4, 2010University of Pennsylvania part of the alliance of top industry, academic and non-profit organizations set to launch "National Robotics Week"
February 4, 2010CNN: Is the 'Avatar' concept really possible? Brian Litt weighs in on the "transfer of conciousness" concept seen in the blockbuster film
February 4, 2010The Nanotechnology Institute (NTI) receives $1.5 million to emphasize commercialization of nanotechnology research inventions
February 3, 2010MSE Department is US collaborator in "New knowledge about the deformation of nanocrystals offers new tools for nanotechnology"
February 1, 2010Dean's Medal recipient Mukesh Ambani sees soft power boosting Indian growth, saying it has the potential to grow at "high double-digit rates"
February 1, 2010Rahul Mangharam quoted on smart phone apps in the Philadelphia Inquirer's "A bonanza for app developers: Phone downloads are hotter than ever"
February 1, 2010Prashant Purohit Receives NSF CAREER Award
February 1, 2010Brian Litt Featured in "Silicon Gets Silky: Research Being Conducted in the US Could Make it Far Easier to Implant Electronics in the Human Body"
January 27, 2010Ani Nenkova Receives NSF CAREER Award
January 23, 2010Katherine Kuchenbecker's NSF Haptics Award Spotlighted in ASEE Prism as an Example of the Impact of the ARRA in Higher Education Research
January 21, 2010Bioengineering's Skirkanich Hall Receives a 2010 AIA Institute Honor Award for Excellence in Architecture, Interior Architecture and Urban Design
January 21, 2010Nano/Bio Interface Center Awarded $11.5 Million to Advance Nanoscale Research at the Interface of Physical and Biological Systems
January 20, 2010Penn Engineering Research Cited in "The Next 20 Years of Microchips: Pushing Performance Boundaries"
January 15, 2010Deans Rebecca Bushnell, Eric Furda and Eduardo Glandt visit India to cement ties with Penn
January 14, 2010Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries Limited Awarded Inaugural Dean's Medal from Eduardo Glandt
January 11, 2010Changing Skyline: Skirkanich Hall Part of Philadelphia's Architecture Boom
January 8, 2010
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