Penn Engineering News Archive
Headlines, Awards and Accomplishments from 2011
Joe Bordogna featured in "A Place in History: TV technology continues to change"
December 20, 2011Aravind Joshi and Mitchell Marcus Named ACL Fellows
December 19, 2011Andrew Tsourkas featured in "Penn Engineers Develop More Effective MRI Contrast Agent for Cancer Detection"
December 14, 2011Noam Lior comments in "Is China's Solar Industry Heading for an Eclipse?"
December 9, 2011Howard Hu Elected to APS Fellowship Class of 2011
December 8, 2011GRASP's quadrotors featured in "Real life 'construction' quadcopter robots being developed"
December 5, 2011Robert Carpick leads collaboration to "Demonstrate Earthquake Friction Effect at the Nanoscale"
November 30, 2011CBE junior Amanda Culp featured in Penn Current's "Student Spotlight"
November 30, 2011Alumnus Jay Parekh featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer's "GreenSpace: A winning idea for a water bottle"
November 28, 2011Michael Kearns is featured in "High-tech strategy to get more smokers to quit"
November 28, 2011Matt Blaze in "Police using technology to shield internal communcations"
November 21, 2011Kostas Daniilidis Elected an IEEE Fellow
November 21, 2011Brian Litt conducts research to develop a "More Flexible Window Into the Brain"
November 14, 2011MKSE featured in "New SEAS program develops next generation of innovators"
November 3, 2011Insup Lee and PhD student Andrew West are featured in "What Wikipedia Deletes, and Why"
November 2, 2011Science Fellow spotlight: Katherine Kuchenbecker
October 27, 2011Global Biomedical Service Program: Engineers work across borders
October 27, 2011Fourth annual festival showcases mechanical engineers' games
October 25, 2011Video: GRASP's Quadrotor robots featured on "Penn and Teller"
October 24, 2011Engineering students hack gaming device to help visually impaired
October 24, 2011PopSci features GRASP's Foambot, which "Creates Itself Out of Sprayable Foam, Becoming Whatever Robot You Need"
October 20, 2011PopSci features GRASP's PR2 Robot Learning to "Scoop Up Distasteful Matter"
October 18, 2011Student team takes silver medal in iGEM competition
October 14, 2011Michael Kearns collaborates in $1 million grant to develop anti-smoking appeals
October 7, 2011Students take bioengineered cells to the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition
October 6, 2011The launch of the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER), a joint SEAS and SAS program, is featured
October 4, 2011Matt Blaze comments in WSJ's "Devices That Can Listen In on Cellphone Traffic, Control Your Phone"
October 4, 2011Stuart Churchill Honored with Festschrift from "Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research"
October 4, 2011ALPHA Bike profiled in "Not Your Father's Fixie"
September 29, 2011U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu to speak at Penn Engineering
September 29, 2011Eric Berdinis and Jeff Kiske win Google Zeitgeist Young Minds 2011 award
September 29, 2011Arjun Raj Receives NIH New Innovator Award
September 29, 2011Nader Engheta Selected to Receive 2012 IEEE Electromagnetics Award
September 28, 2011Video: Quad Formation Flying at University of Pennsylvania GRASP Lab
SEptember 27, 2011Research by Matt Blaze in "How 'Stingray' Devices Work"
September 27, 2011Penn Engineers featured in "PennApps fall 2011: hacked microwave-driven video player wins $2,500"
September 27, 2011Student Spotlight with Kevin Conley
September 27, 2011Matthew Blaze and Sandy Clark are featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer for their work in securing federal agents' radios
September 19, 2011Ken Laker Honored by IEEE Solid State Circuits Magazine
September 19, 2011Jason Merrin, DMD'13, Receives CWA Creative Concept Award
September 19, 2011Congressman Chaka Fattah hails Penn Engineering's Karlin Bark as "a superstar in robotics"
September 16, 2011Dean Eduardo Glandt comments on the Tony Smith sculpture to be installed in front of the new Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology
September 15, 2011Alexey Komissarouk, senior in Computer and Information Science, tells students to "Be cooler than Mark Zuckerberg"
September 15, 2011MKSE featured in "New Engineering major studies science behind networks"
September 14, 2011Alexander Shoulson, a Ph.D. student studying game AI, comments on Storybricks, the game, in "No end of fun: Make your own video games"
September 14, 2011Vijay Kumar awarded NSF grant for his project "Partnership for Innovation: Autonomous Robotic Rotorcraft for Exploration, Surveillance and Transportation (ARREST)"
September 13, 2011Dennis Discher Named the Robert D. Bent Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
September 12, 2011Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter Awarded $21.7 Million NSF Grant
September 9, 2011Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter Awarded $21.7 Million NSF Grant
September 8, 2011Jason Burdick and Robert Mauck in "Check Up: University of Pennsylvania researchers regrowing cartilage in lab"
August 22, 2011Katherine Kuchenbecker interviewed for SmartPlanet's "Why design is key in haptics innovation"
August 22, 2011Daniel Hammer and graduate students Neha Kamat and Laurel Moses colaborate to develop color-changing stress sensor
August 22, 2011Jonathan Fiene receives AUVSI Foundation Academic Champion Award
August 22, 2011Daniel Lee is EEWeb's "Featured Engineer"
August 17, 2011Research led by Matthew Blaze in "Security Flaws in Feds' Radios Make for Easy Eavesdropping"
August 15, 2011Novel training machine created by Katherine Kuchenbecker featured in "Wire robot yanks your golf game into shape"
August 15, 2011Ritesh Agarwal featured in "Conducting research at the nano-level"
August 15, 2011Karlin Bark receives 2011 L'Oreal USA Fellowship For Women In Science
August 15, 2011Jonathan Smith comments on cloud computing security measures in "SMEs need strong security tools"
August 3, 2011Katherine Kuchenbecker named to Pop Tech's Science and Public Leadership Fellows Class of 2011
August 3, 2011Laura Fox, a postdoctoral researcher, writes from Mongolia, where she is studying the effects of climatic warming on steppe vegetation
August 2, 2011Mitchell Marcus comments on "ENIAC Still Influencing Enterprise IT 68 Years Later"
July 29, 2011Market and Social Systems Engineering (MKSE) featured in "Engineering to launch new major in the fall"
July 28, 2011Research by A. T. Charlie Johnson featured in “Researchers help graft olfactory receptors onto nanotubes”
July 27, 2011Vukan Vuchic in New York Times “Crash Raises Questions on China’s Push to Build High-Speed Passenger Rail Lines”
July 27, 2011Susan Margulies Receives $6.7 million NIH/NINDS Grant for Preclinical Trials to Treat Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
July 21, 2011Ravi Radhakrishnan discusses the image he and his postdoc created for the cover of the latest issue of Biophysical Journal
July 20, 2011Jonathan Smith comments on Internet routing algorithms in "Age of the splinternet"
July 15, 2011Video: Watch Team DARwIn as they win the Humanoid Kid Size final match at RoboCup 2011
July 13, 2011Dennis Discher collaborates to show "Single Drug and Soft Environment Can Increase Platelet Production"
July 8, 2011Brian Litt featured in the New York Times "The Then and Now of Memory"
July 7, 2011PhillieBot makes list of "Top 10 YouTube Videos Posted by Colleges"
July 6, 2011Ken Foster, lead review author, addresses the question "Is Heat From Radiofrequency Exposure Damaging Human Health?"
July 6, 2011Katherine Kuchenbecker and Ani Nenkova selected to participate in NAE's 2011 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
June 29, 2011Vijay Kumar in "National Robotics Roundtable applauds President for robotics initiative"
June 27, 2011Katherine Kuchenbecker in "Haptic soldiers guided by buzzing belt"
June 27, 2011Ken Foster comments on "Radiation Risk: Are Some Cellphones More Dangerous Than Others?"
June 24, 2011Students Receive 1st Prize in Honeywell Users Group Wireless Student Competition
June 20, 2011Ritesh Agarwal "Breaks Light-Matter Coupling Strength Limit in Nanoscale Semiconductors"
June 16, 2011Nader Engheta envisions "'Two-Dimensional' Graphene Metamaterials and One-Atom-Thick Optical Devices"
June 10, 2011Ben Taskar Receives NSF CAREER Award
June 8, 2011Research team led by Dawn Bonnell builds bio-circuits and the microscopy method to look at them
June 8, 2011Matthew Blaze discusses cyber threats and cyberwarfare from foreign nations
June 7, 2011Penn Engineering's PR2 robot learns to read, follows words anywhere
May 24, 2011David F. Meaney Named the Solomon R. Pollack Professor of Bioengineering
May 24, 2011Research by Paulo Arratia in "Do Microbes Swim Faster or Slower in Elastic Fluids?"
May 23, 2011Robots investigate Levine Hall in "Rescue robots map and explore dangerous buildings"
May 18, 2011Karlin Bark Receives Fellowship for Women in Science
May 18, 2011GRASP Lab Receives Honors at ICRA 2011
May 18, 2011Technology, Business and Government lecture featured in "Dr. Arun Majumdar Talks Innovation in Philadelphia"
May 17, 2011Ali Jadbabaie comments in "Networks dominated by rule of the few"
May 13, 2011Andrew Tsourkas receives Futures grant from the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
May 9, 2011Vukan Vuchic receives first academic award from the National Association of Railroad Passengers
May 9, 2011Senior Design winners spotlighted in "Engineering undergrads design bike with split personality"
May 6, 2011Mark Yim collaborates in "Learning about ethics of design through 'the dark side'"
May 6, 2011Research by Daniel Hammer in "Researchers Create Janus Dendrimer Assemblies for Drug Delivery"
May 4, 2011Vaclav Vitek Honored with Festschrift from "Progress in Materials Science"
May 3, 2011MEAM Senior Design project featured in "Alpha Bike Flips From Fixed to Free Electronically"
April 27, 2011PhillieBot in "Robot Throws First Pitch At Phillies Game"
April 21, 2011Christopher Murray Receives Honorary Doctorate from Utrecht University
April 21, 2011Vukan Vuchic Receives Honorary Doctorate from Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers
April 21, 2011Yibin Zhang selected to participate in the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals
April 21, 2011GRASP Laboratory Receives IEEE Corporate Innovation Award
April 21, 2011GRASP Lab bot in "Taking the mound at Citizens Bank Park on Science Day: Philliebot"
April 19, 2011Research led by Cherie Kagan in "New Research Advances Understanding of Lead Selenide Nanowires"
April 18, 2011Mark Yim's CKBots featured in "Go reconfigure"
April 18, 2011
Penn Engineering's GRASP Lab robots featured on "Good Morning America"
April 6, 2011Penn SWE Receives Outstanding Section Award
April 6, 2011Benjamin Shyong, undergraduate in Electrical Engineering, in "Bubble tea bandits: Meet the Boba Bros."
April 1, 2011Matthew Blaze in "Top Computer Scientists Back WikiLeaks Associates in Twitter Case"
April 1, 2011Brian Litt weighs in on "An Up-Close View of Seizures"
March 31, 2011Noam Lior comments on "U.S. Energy Policy after Japan: If Not Nuclear, Then What?"
March 31, 2011Engineering student Mayurnath Sankar Rao in "Post Match Interview" following the success of Penn Cricket Club
March 30, 2011Penn Engineering student athletes spotlighted in "Cricket shines in Florida"
March 30, 2011Matthew Blaze comments in "Privacy backers balk at firms tracking cellphone users"
March 28, 2011Jean Bartik, last of the original ENIAC programmers, 86
March 24, 2011GRASP Lab's use of Robot Operating System (ROS) spotlighted in "Cooperation Leads To Smarter Robots"
March 23, 3011Dennis Discher develops "New Vector Designed For Gene Delivery"
March 10, 2011Students about to unleash Renegade, an electric drag-racing car
March 8, 2011Singh Program Receives $650,000 Google Research Grant
March 7, 2011"The Ladies of ENIAC" named to the "15 Most Important Women in Tech History"
March 3, 2011Mark Liberman comments on the future of the digital age in the New York Times article "The Future Tense"
February 28, 2011NBIC research featured in "Physicists develop scalable method for making graphene"
February 28, 2011Dawn Bonnell quoted in "The fundamental question," regarding nanotechnology’s economic potential
February 28, 2011Penn Engineering professors to join in educating students in India
February 25, 2011Singing the Praises of Penn's Krishna P. Singh Nanotechnology Center
February 23, 2011Alumnus Catalin Roman appointed Dean of the University of New Mexico's School of Engineering
February 22, 2011Penn holds groundbreaking for $80 million nanotechnology center
February 17, 2011Haim Bau comments on cell research in "Freeze-Frame: Tricks for Probing a Cell’s Moving Parts"
February 15, 2011Joseph Bordogna and Mitchell Marcus pay tribute to the first computer in "The ENIAC Anniversary"
February 15, 2011Mitchell Marcus quoted in "Two 'Jeopardy!' aces to square off against computer"
February 14, 2011ENIAC Day to celebrate dedication of Penn’s historic computer
February 10, 2011Daeyeon Lee Receives NSF CAREER Award
February 9, 2011Penn Engineering alumnus Roman Shor participates in landmark Plastics at SEA expedition
February 8, 2011CNN spotlights the women involved in a top-secret program at Penn in "Rediscovering WWII's female 'computers'"
February 8, 2011Penn Engineering profiled in "Innovation paves the way for programmable vehicles"
February 8, 2011Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology profiled in "Penn breaks ground for nanotechnology center"
February 4, 2011Nader Engheta featured in "Excellence in Research and Outstanding Careers Honored with Awards at SPIE"
February 4, 2011Jason Burdick Receives Edward C. Nagy New Investigator Award
February 2, 2011Penn Engineering collaborates to launch the Young India Fellowship, "India's own Rhodes Scholarship"
February 1, 2011Penn Engineering a partner in Philadelphia FIRST Lego League tournament that "gets kids in on the robotics game"
January 31, 2011Daniel Gianola Receives NSF CAREER Award
January 31, 2011Quadrotor robots featured in "Networked robots will build tomorrow's world"
January 25, 2011GRASP Lab spotlighted in Popular Science's "Robotic Quadcopters Work In Autonomous Swarms to Build Towers"
January 20, 2011
Andreas Haeberlen Receives NSF CAREER Award
January 20, 2011
Casim Sarkar Receives NSF CAREER Award
January 20, 2011Christopher Fang-Yen Co-authors Study to "Control Minds of Worms"
January 19, 2011GRASP Lab Video "Construction with Quadrotor Teams" Goes Viral
January 18, 2011Nader Engheta Elected Fellow of SPIE
January 14, 2011Casim Sarkar collaborates to "Uncover Inherent Properties of Cell Signaling Pathways"
January 10, 2011Michael Kearns quoted in Wired Magazine's "Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street"
January 7, 2011ENIAC featured in "First Electronic Computers in the World"
January 7, 2011Katherine Kuchenbecker profiled in MentorNet's "Being a Woman in Engineering is "Fun'"
January 4, 2011The late Britton Chance honored by SPIE with the establishment of the Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award
January 4, 2011Noam Lior and Na Zhang receive the 2010 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Edward F. Obert Award
January 4, 2011Bioengineering alumnus Edward Botchwey receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
January 3, 2011Student research spotlighted in the Philadelphia Inquirer's "Haptics offer the sensation of touch without touching"
January 3, 2011Alumnus Alexander Mittal, co-founder of Innova Dynamics, is named one of Bloomberg Businessweek's 2010 "America's Best Young Entrepreneurs"
January 3, 2011
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