• MEAM Seminar: “Temperature Dependent Offset for Spin Lattice Dynamics Modeling”

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    Room 337, Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Spin lattice dynamics (SLD) modeling is an approach to modeling magnetic interactions at the nanoscale. Current spin lattice dynamics models do not model magnetoelastic effects well, giving non-physical lattice parameters […]

    AI + Science Seminar

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    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Extracting Knowledge Priors from Scientific Texts for De Novo Molecular Design This talk will explore a large-scale effort to exploit the natural-language understanding capabilities of large language models in order […]

    ASSET Seminar: “AIRFoundry: AI for RNA Discovery and Synthesis”

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    Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414 3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States

    Virtually everyone today is aware of the mRNA vaccine for COVID, which saved many lives and earned the Nobel Prize for Drs. Drew Weissman and Katalin Kariko. The vaccine consisted […]

    2025 Venture Lab Expo

    Entrepreneurship Expo 2025

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    On Wednesday, August 27, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM ET, Venture Lab is hosting the 2025 Entrepreneurship Expo, a one-stop experience for students to explore co-curricular programs, discover entrepreneurship […]

    CBE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: “Silica Nanoparticle-Based Platform for Rare Earth Element Recovery and Separation” (Ivy Dai)

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    Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology, Room 121 231 S 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Abstract: Rare earth elements (REEs) are essential for clean energy technologies including batteries for electrical vehicles, wind turbines and LED screens due to their unique magnetic, optical, and electronic properties. […]

  • MEAM Seminar: “Harnessing Living Bacteria, Fungi, and Plants as Functional Materials”

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    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    For decades materials engineers have been inspired by biology to create improved properties, for example nacre-inspired hierarchical structures to improve toughness, tree-inspired vasculature to deliver fluids that can react and […]

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Aoife O’Farrell

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    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Arjun Raj are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Aoife O'Farrell. Title: Stimulus Specificity of Trained Immune Memory […]

    BE Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Michael Yao

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    The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Drs. Osbert Bastani and James Gee are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Michael Yao. Title: Distributionally Robust Machine Intelligence Advisors: Osbert Bastani, PhD […]