Combining AI and Art-making for Youth Well-being News / March 7, 2025 After gaining experience as a qualitative researcher in public health, Eileen Feng mused about how she might take that knowledge and apply it to product design. She sought out a program soon after completing a master’s program in public health, finding her fit with the Integrated Product Design master’s program, a joint... Read More
How the Media Distorts Perceptions on Chronic Disease Risks News / February 28, 2025 Silent illnesses, or chronic diseases, contribute to 70% of deaths in the US annually and six in ten Americans suffer from at least one chronic condition. Despite this, coverage of this public health crisis is disproportionately overshadowed by sensational risks, including terrorism, homicide, and traffic accidents- incidents that are far... Read More
Spaces That Spark Discovery: A Look Inside One uCity Square News / January 14, 2025 Thoughtfully designed for light, flexibility and constant exchange, the new labs at One uCity Square are reshaping how precision-health research happens. Read More
Revolutionizing Data Centers: Penn Engineers’ Breakthrough in Photonic Switching News / January 7, 2025 A tiny new photonic switch from Penn Engineering could dramatically accelerate global data traffic while slashing energy use in data centers. Read More
Nature’s Instructions: How Fungi Make a Key Medicinal Molecule News / December 18, 2024 For roughly a century, ever since Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928, fungi have proven to be a goldmine for medicines. They’ve provided treatments for a wide range of diseases, from infections and high cholesterol to organ rejection and even cancer. However, the process by which fungi synthesize... Read More
Unlocking the Brain: Peptide-Guided Nanoparticles Deliver mRNA to Neurons News / December 17, 2024 Penn Engineers have modified lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to cross the blood-brain barrier and target specific types of cells, including neurons. Read More
Unlocking Multi-Core Potential: Robert Gifford’s Breakthroughs in Real-Time System Safety News / November 20, 2024 Robert Gifford, a doctoral candidate with the Penn Research in Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems Engineering (PRECISE) Center, is at the forefront of revolutionizing real-time systems on modern multi-core computers. Working with Linh Thi Xuan Phan and Andreas Haeberlen, Associate Professor and Professor in the Department of Computer and Information... Read More
Giving Robots Superhuman Vision Using Radio Signals News / November 12, 2024 In the race to develop robust perception systems for robots, one persistent challenge has been operating in bad weather and harsh conditions. For example, traditional, light-based vision sensors such as cameras or LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) fail in heavy smoke and fog. However, nature has shown that vision... Read More
Breakthrough in Energy-Efficient Avalanche-based Amorphization Could Revolutionize Data Storage News / November 6, 2024 The atoms of amorphous solids like glass have no ordered structure; they arrange themselves randomly, like scattered grains of sand on a beach. Normally, making materials amorphous — a process known as amorphization — requires considerable amounts of energy. The most common technique is the melt-quench process, which involves heating... Read More
New Class of Encrypted Peptides Offer Hope in Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance News / November 5, 2024 In a significant advance against the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, researchers have identified a novel class of antimicrobial agents known as encrypted peptides, which may expand the immune system’s arsenal of tools to fight infection. The findings, published in Trends in Biotechnology by Cell Press, reveal that many antimicrobial molecules originate from... Read More
