Start-Up With Style
Wharton Business Plan-winner Stylitics makes dressing digital.
Technology and Art Converge in Storyville
Alumni create online home for fiction in Storyville.
PENN 2.0
The University is now active on all manner of social networks—and students, faculty, and staff members are even inventing new ones of their own.
Wharton Hosts Silicon Valley’s “Supernova” Conference
Silicon Valley moves east for Supernova conference.
Some Vinegar and a Cellphone, Stat!
Screening for cancer with vinegar and a cellphone camera.
Penn Guardian Is Watching You
Penn Guardian offers GPS location in emergencies.
Phantom Privacy
We’ve lost control of our online data, and the consequences may be worse than you think.
Touching the Virtual Frontier
If you’ve never been stung by imaginary gunfire, sent a texture sample by email, or had a sleeve teach you how to move your arm, Katherine Kuchenbecker’s Haptics Lab is a Pandora’s box of tactile trickery and strange sensations.
Smart Water
Aakash Mathur C’09 W’09 and Jay Parekh EAS’09
Tiny Solutions, Big Implications
Randy Snurr EAS’88
A Life Worth Living
Thanks to advanced technology and the family, friends, colleagues, and caretakers who make up his “crew,” Penn neuroscientist and alumnus Scott Mackler continues to function professionally and personally a decade after being diagnosed with the lethal neurodegenerative disease ALS.
Inside the Cancer-Cell Smasher
In the last century, American medicine has gone from a cottage industry to a technology-driven juggernaut. The machine at the heart of the new Roberts Proton Therapy Center, dubbed “the world’s most expensive and complex medical device,” provides a glimpse of what the coming years may hold.
“Little Ben” Finishes Fourth
Pretty big finish for “Little Ben”
The Best Inventions That Don’t Exist
Innovation for the rest of us: “2nd Best Idea Slam.”
And the Winning Prototype Is …
Parachuting robot snares annual PennVention prize.
“What Free Time?”
Webcasts let incoming freshmen “hear a voice and see a face”
The Next Internet and the Museum of Ideas
How Internet2 is transforming archaeology
Research in Brief
Research in brief
Fine ’09 Meets Online
Freshmen orient themselves online
Building a Better Mousetrap, Hip Implant, Beach Towel …
Better minesweeper takes PennVention prize
The Wild Web
Along with lots of junk, online writing has produced some captivating material.
Keeping an Extra Eye on the ICU
Penn E-lert improves ICU oversight
Poetry in (Sound-Wave) Motion
Odes and iPods
Simulated People Save Real Lives
René Gonzalez M’83 GM’86