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Penn’s Center for Technology Transfer Launches Mobile App Contest
The University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Technology Transfer (CTT), through its business incubator UPstart program, has launched a new mobile application design contest called the AppItUP Challenge.
Graphene Frontiers Awarded $745,000 NSF Grant for ‘Roll-to-Roll’ Graphene Production
Graphene Frontiers, a company developed through the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Technology Transfer, has been awarded a $744,600 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop roll-to-roll production of graphene, the “miracle material” at the heart of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Penn’s Field Center Advocates Changing Higher Ed Policy for Former Foster Youth
It’s a momentous day when a foster child graduates from high school. But, now what? One center at the University of Pennsylvania is working to address the needs of this under-the-radar population by stimulating a shift in higher education policy.
Penn Pipes Revitalizes Scottish, Irish Traditional Music on Campus
One group of University of Pennsylvania students is full of hot air. Anyone within earshot of Fisher-Bennett Hall on Monday evenings will hear the unmistakable sounds of Penn Pipes, the University’s first and only band of merry bagpipe enthusiasts.
Penn Scientists Demonstrate New Method for Harvesting Energy from Light
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a new mechanism for extracting energy from light, a finding that could improve technologies for generating electricity from solar energy and lead to more efficient optoelectronic devices used in communications.
Penn Science Café: Studying Self-Control
Associate Professor of Psychology Robert Kurzban studies how the mind has adapted over time to the challenges of the social world, such as how to make decisions about cooperation, morality and punishment. Kurzban will talk about one trait we associate with these challenges: willpower.
Penn Team Begins Five-Year Sky-Mapping Mission as Part of Dark Energy Survey
For hundreds of nights during the next five years, the world’s most powerful digital camera will turn skyward, helping a team of physicists and astronomers from around the globe answer fundamental questions about our universe.
Delivering Drugs With Plants, Penn’s Henry Daniell Aims to Save Lives
An admonishment to eat your greens may take on a whole new meaning if Henry Daniell, who recently joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, has anything to do with it.
Penn Develops Computer Model That Will Help Design Flexible Touchscreens
Electronic devices with touchscreens are ubiquitous, and one key piece of technology makes them possible: transparent conductors.
Penn: Protein That Protects Nucleus Also Regulates Stem Cell Differentiation
The human body has hundreds of different cell types, all with the same basic DNA, and all of which can ultimately be traced back to identical stem cells.