WHAT'S NEW

Eduardo D. Glandt, Dean

• Professor Rajeev Alur named a Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of IEEE
• Learning From Katrina: Pearlington, Miss., Struggles to Rebuild
• Penn's Autonomous Car "Little Ben" Advances to the Finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge
• Alumnus Krishna Singh Gives $20 Million to Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science
• Gigantic fuss over a teensy topic
• Bioengineers at University of Pennsylvania Devise Nanoscale System to Measure Cellular Forces
• University of Pennsylvania Engineers Discover Natural "Workbench" for Nanoscale Construction
• Seeking the Next Kevlar: Penn Researchers Fine Tune Nanotube/Nylon Composite Using Carbon Spacers
• Cell Structures Exhibit Novel Behaviors, Mimic Red Blood Cells and Liquid Crystals, Penn Researchers Report
• Dr. Sanjeev Khanna is awarded a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship
• Professor Thomas Cassel wins 2007 Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching
• John Vohs Wins the 2007 Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Award
• Professor Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy Awarded 2007 Worcester Reed Warner Medal
• Robot Camp at Penn Engineering [NBC10] [FOX29]
• Mentors at Penn Summer Program Teach Valuable Skills [PDF]
• Jennifer Lukes Selected to Participate in the National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
• An Engineering Lab That Can Entertain
• Behold RAVI-Bot! Penn Students Build Improvisational Robot That Plays Classical Indian Music
• Nathan J. Sniadecki, Ph.D., named as member of the 2006 Inaugural Class of Hartwell Fellows
• Nader Engheta named one of the "2006 Scientific American 50"
• Professor Pedro Ponte Castañeda Wins the George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research
• Penn Professor Roch Guerin Named ACM Fellow
• Penn Team bridges the "Digital Divide" in Cameroon
• $2.8 Million for Systems Biology
• Computer Scientists Put Social Network Theory to the Test
• SEAS Student Creates Electric Tweezers
• Warning: Your Keyboard May Be Spying on You
• Engineering Prof uses complex materials to make particles transparent

• Encourage a Future Engineer

• New ESE Department Chair, Daniel E. Koditschek

• Check out the Accenture Cyber Cafe

• ScholarlyCommons@Penn - ScholarlyCommons@Penn is a repository of the research and scholarly output of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, administered by the Penn Library.

• New Computer and Game Technology Program (CGGT) offered by CIS Dept.

• New Building: Skirkanich Hall

Penn Engineering in the News

Penn Professor Roch Guerin Named ACM Fellow [Office of University Communications, 1/08/2007]

Nader Engheta named one of the "2006 Scientific American 50"[Office of University Communications, 12/04/2006]

$2.8 Million for Systems Biology [Office of University Communications, 11/14/2006]

Computational Neuroscience Grant Awarded [Office of University Communications, 11/14/2006]

Modeling Terrorists [Spectrum, 11/2006]

Nanotech Research at Penn Tops the List [Office of University Communications, 5/25/2006]

Vaclav Vitek Elected to the National Academy of Engineering [Office of University Communications, 2/16/2006]

News Archives

2005 Archive of News Items
2004 Archive of News Items
2003 Archive of News Items
2002 Archive of News Items
2001 Archive of News Items
2000 Archive of News Items