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George Pappas Receives IEEE Kirchmayer Award
July 15th, 2025
Rob Ghrist: The soul of an artist, the mind of a mathematician
The art is both real and not real—a digital representation of an abstract concept—minted on the blockchain and hosted in an online, video-game-like platform by Robert Ghrist, the Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Mathematics and Electrical & Systems Engineering.
Microrobots Navigate Diverse Oral Environments to Deliver Therapies
The team’s 2024 paper, published in Advanced Healthcare Materials, describes their new platform that integrates nanozyme-shelled microrobots, made using microfluidics templates that combine individual iron oxide and silica nanoparticles into 100-µm microcapsules roughly…
2025 John A. Goff Prize Recipients
The annual John A. Goff Prize recognizes outstanding graduate students in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), chosen by faculty based on their scholarship, resourcefulness, and leadership. This year, MEAM proudly celebrates two recipients…
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In June, Penn Engineering hosted the Xplorlabs Educator Fellowship Summit. Teachers explored safety science via workshops on sprinklers, burn scenes & Li-ion fires and heard talks by Chris Callison-Burch & @robertghrist.
Penn engineers & @WeitzmanSchool designers led by @ShuYangPenn & Masoud Akbarzadeh have developed a 3D-printed concrete solution based on diatomaceous earth (DE) that enhances carbon capture, is more resilient and uses fewer materials like cement.
Congratulations to George Pappas (@pappasg69) on receiving the 2025 @IEEEorg Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award. With over two decades of educating at Penn, Pappas is recognized for his "inspirational mentoring" of graduate students.
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