Graphene Frontiers, a company founded by Penn faculty through the UPstart program, was awarded a $744,600 grant from the National Science Foundation last week.

Earlier this month, the University announced the winners of the Excellence through Diversity Fund proposal program for Penn faculty. The DP took a look at four of these projects.

Liskov received the Harold Pender Award, given by Penn’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering, for advancing programming and distributed systems.

The interdisciplinary program between Wharton, Engineering and the School of Design will provide a career path for students without engineering experience but who are still interested in product design.

Researchers at Penn and Duke are working with nanowire technology to develop flexible solar panels and touch screens, which would theoretically be able to roll up like a yoga mat.

Fluharty, who received all three of his degrees from Penn, plans to initiate a “strategic planning process” this semester to develop plan for SAS.

Every student in Wharton received an email requesting nominations for the school’s to members of the committee directly or to a confidential email address.

Starting in September, the UPstart program under Penn’s Center for Technology Transfer will start a partnership with NovoBioPharma.

With PennApps crowned as the largest student-run hackathon in the nation, Penn is increasing opportunities for undergraduate tech innovation. But PennApps is not the only example of student-led hackathons on campus.

Twenty-six teams competed this weekend at PennHacks, a biannual, 40-hour-long competition where participants designed and create tangible electronic devices and toys.

The new learning management platform has a video function, allowing students in ASL classes to engage in online discussions in sign language.

Each of the four courses are set to begin on Coursera within the next few weeks and last from six to 10 weeks.

Penn announced on Tuesday that the School of Nursing is teaming up with a Philadelphia private high school for girls, The Agnes Irwin School, to teach a class about global health this semester.

The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with the congressman after his speech to talk about his neuroscience investment initiatives and concerns about research funding cuts.

Researchers may have to end life-saving enterprises due to lack of monetary support.

Penn Engineers’ summer projects include cockroach inspired robots and improved cell phone chips.

By the end of this school year, all 12 schools will be unified under one learning management system.