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Penn team creates first bile duct-on-a-chip
Closeup microscope medical technology

Penn team creates first bile duct-on-a-chip

The miniature, fabricated organ, replicating the structure and cellular makeup of the tissue, may lead to better understanding of the organ system and the differences between child and adult bile ducts.

Penn Today Staff

Deepfake detector wins PennApps XX
Team DeFake: Aarati Srikumar, Daniel Li, George Diwan and Sofiya Lysenko

Team DeFake: Aarati Srikumar, Daniel Li, George Diwan and Sofiya Lysenko (Image: Penn Engineering)

Deepfake detector wins PennApps XX

An app designed to detect deepfakes took home the grand prize at PennApps XX, beating nearly 250 tech projects developed over the course of a weekend. 

Penn Today Staff

A wearable new technology moves brain monitoring from the lab to the real world
Two people standing in a lab space, holding headbands.

Postdoc Arjun Ramakrishnan (left) and Penn Integrates Knowledge professor Michael Platt created a wearable EEG akin to a Fitbit for the brain, with a set of silicon and silver nanowire sensors embedded into a head covering like the headband seen here. The new technology led to the formation of a company called Cogwear, LLC.

A wearable new technology moves brain monitoring from the lab to the real world

The portable EEG created by PIK Professor Michael Platt and postdoc Arjun Ramakrishnan has potential applications from health care to sports performance.

Michele W. Berger

Minding the gap between mass transit and ride-hailing apps
Person holding a cellphone with a lit up image of a car emanating from it.

As Uber and Lyft become more widely available, researchers zero in on how these ride-hailing services are affecting urban development and the environment.

Minding the gap between mass transit and ride-hailing apps

With support from the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, doctoral students Caitlin Gorback and Summer Dong are researching how services like Uber and Lyft are changing our transport habits, cities, and environments.

Gina Vitale , Michele W. Berger

A cohort study comes of age
illustration of kidneys

A cohort study comes of age

For nearly two decades, a major national study of kidney disease led and coordinated at Penn has defined key risk factors in an all-too-common silent epidemic.

Steve Graff

‘Smart aviary’ poised to break new ground in behavioral research
outside the smart aviary

‘Smart aviary’ poised to break new ground in behavioral research

A collaboration that has brought together biologists, engineers, and physicists to study the reproductive behavior of birds using machine learning in a custom-built aviary at Pennovation Works.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Founded on an ecosystem of innovation
Michael Posa works on CASSIE, a legged robot in a lab.

Michael Posa works on CASSIE, a bipedal robot in the Dynamic Autonomy and Intelligent Robotics lab. (Photo: Eric Sucar)

Founded on an ecosystem of innovation

Penn was built on the concept of innovation. “If it’s new, novel and holds promise to change the world,” says President Amy Gutmann, “you’ll find it at Penn.”
A push for emergency texting services across the United States
Two students sitting on a stone statue, one on a computer, the other on a phone.

Not only do rising juniors Anthony Scarpone-Lambert and Kirti Shenoy want emergency text services in every county in the United States, but they also want to educate Americans on its potentially lifesaving benefits. That’s where Text-911 comes in. (Photo: Simon Chen)

A push for emergency texting services across the United States

Today, fewer than half of U.S. counties have this capability. Rising juniors Anthony Scarpone-Lambert and Kirti Shenoy want to change that with their nonprofit Text-911.

Michele W. Berger

Calling all techies: Penn’s your next stop
Person wearing VR glasses sitting and holding a phone to ear beside a phone booth.

Calling all techies: Penn’s your next stop

Throughout the years, jobs in technology have flourished at the University. Here’s why it’s such a good place to work in tech.

Lauren Hertzler