SPRING 2013
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FROM THE CHAIR FElICE MACERA
DR. SUSAN B. DAVIDSON Weiss Professor and Department Chair, Computer and Information Science Chair, Advancing Women in Engineering Email: susan@cis.upenn.edu
Welcome to the first Advancing Women in Engineering (AWE) newsletter! As you may know, AWE was founded in Fall 2007 as the brainchild of SEAS faculty and staff who were concerned about the persistently low numbers of women in engineering. Convinced that women were missing out on incredibly exciting opportunities to “turn science into reality” and that the problem lay in a misperception (or even ignorance) of what our field is about, we set out to correct this by finding ways of enticing women into our field, supporting them once they were hooked, and creating social and networking opportunities. Through the generous gift of a Penn alumna, we were fortunate to be able to hire Michele Grab as Director and work with her to formulate a plan – and the rest is history! We are excited to see the many initiatives that Michele has started in five short years, from the Penn GEMS outreach to middle-school girls, the Sleeping Bag weekend, the pre-orientation program, and more. And it is clearly working, as the numbers show: before
FROM THE DIRECTOR KEVIN MONKO
MICHElE GRAB Director of Advancing Women in Engineering Email: mgrab@seas.upenn.edu
Welcome to the first edition of @pennawe! Since 2007, the Advancing Women in Engineering (AWE) program has been busy recruiting, retaining and promoting women in Penn Engineering. We hope you will enjoy hearing about all the great things AWE is up to as well as hearing updates from some of our great alumnae. The community for women in engineering at Penn has never been stronger. Our undergraduate population is 32% women, master’s students are 31% women and 25% of PhD students are women. All are higher than the national averages but there is always more to be done. From our outreach programs with middle school girls to our pre-orientation program for first year students to our faculty events, we are working to encourage girls in engineering and providing the resources and support to help them achieve great things in engineering.
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2007, the average percentage of women transferring out of Penn Engineering was a staggering 25%-35%. Now we are seeing levels of between 7%-24%, bringing the retention of women closer to that of their male counterparts. It is important to create a community of women, as we are shaped by those around us. Having been in computer science for over 35 years, I see the influence of my mother in my certainty that it is possible – even natural – to have a family and a career; the influence of a young, smart, lively female instructor teaching an introductory computer science class during my undergraduate career at Cornell in the firm conviction that I, one of five women in a class of 100, not only naturally belonged but could excel; the influence of my sister, a biochemistry major who in 1975 predicted that the future of bio-science was computational, in my early understanding of the importance of bioinformatics and computational biology; and the influence of the young women around me today in reminding me of how much fun it is to imagine the future. We hope you will keep in touch with us as you go off to work in the field. You can have a tremendous impact on our students by informally mentoring them, participating on a career panel or some other departmental event to talk about your career, or simply being there to serve as inspiration – which you surely are! In the summer of 2008, I greeted 19 students as they arrived on campus for the first AWE pre-orientation program and I think I was as nervous as they were! Would all the months of planning turn out alright? What if they didn’t like it? It turns out I was worried for no reason – pre-orientation went great (and last year we had over 50% of the women in the class participate, a huge increase from those initial 19 students). In May 2012, our first group of pre-orientation sudents graduated from Penn, and I couldn’t have been more proud. That got us thinking, we wanted to keep in touch with those who had been an active part of AWE while they were here and we also wanted to let all of you who were at Penn before AWE know about all the great things we’ve been up to and that’s how this newsletter was born. We want this to be a place where we can celebrate our collective success through alumni updates, hear about interesting happenings in the school, and spotlight some great AWE programs. Almost all the articles here were written by current students so you’re really getting a student’s perspective about current life in Penn Engineering. Expect to see this newsletter in your mailbox or e-mail twice a year and if you are doing something great, get in touch with us so we can include it next time!
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what’s going on @ SEAS N E W S F R O M P E N N ’ S A D VA N C I N G W O M E N I N E N G I N E E R I N G
SEAS HAS A NEw MAjOR: A lOOK INTO NETWORKED & SOCIAl SySTEMS The world of technology is rapid evolving, the world in which we live, work, and play is vastly different from ten years ago. Penn’s answer to this rapidly evolving world is its newest major, the Raj and Neera Singh Program on Networked and Social Systems (NETS). Penn is the first university to offer a program of this kind to undergraduates. NETS seeks to unite the fields of computer science, systems engineering, and economics. Students will learn how people interact with one another through these new technologies and how to make sure the outcome is optimal. Almost done with its second year, NETS has added many new faculty members and classes. Two NETS classes were offered before the inception of the program, the flagship class Networked Life (taught by Dr. Michael Kearns) and Scalable and Cloud Computing (taught by Dr. Andreas Haeberlen and Dr. Zach Ives). Networked Life gives a very good idea of how and why our world is connected.Cloud Computing seeks to give undergraduates experience with the brand new technology behind the cloud. The final project for the class is to create a social networking site that is hosted on the cloud.
semester. The goal of the course is to give students a deeper understanding of how networks affect all of us in our daily lives and how to make sense of them. Being in the first class of a program has been a very interesting, and rewarding experience. I initially heard about the NETS (then MKSE program) my sophomore year of high school. I had always seen myself going into systems or computer science and I was always interested in economics, especially game theory and NETS seemed like the perfect blend of everything in which I was interested. Being a guinea pig is not always easy but it has been a very rewarding experience thus far and I cannot wait to see what the next two years brings. The NETS program is still in its very early phases and constantly evolving. More new courses are slated to be offered in the upcoming semesters. We are all very excited to see how this program evolves and keeps Penn on the cutting edge of technology.
SUSAN GREENBERG BSE in NETS 2015 Email: susangr@seas.upenn.edu
The newest course, Theory of Networks (taught by Dr. Victor Preciado) is being offered for the first time this
For the past 5 summers, AWE has run the Penn GEMS program for middle school girls. GEMS is a week-long camp for approximately 70 middle school girls to participate in hands-on math, science and engineering activities.This past year was our first all-robotics track, where girls spent the week learning about and building all different types of robots. The other two tracks did a range of fun engineering activities including making nitrogen ice cream, discovering symmetry in the environment, and building a robot. All the girls in GEMS gain knowledge about what an engineer is while doing fun and interesting activities. One of the highlights of the program this past summer was getting to hug the PR2 robot in GRASP lab! The girls toured different labs in engineering and saw what amazing things the engineers at Penn are accomplishing. The program is staffed by different Penn female engineering undergraduates, with different SEAS professors and graduate students at Penn running the various activities and labs. Overall, the girls got to see and learn that anyone can be an engineer and there are a lot of different ways to be an engineer too. You can see photos
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FElICE MACERA
PENN GEMS: GIRlS IN ENGINEERING, MATH & SCIENCE CAMP
Robotics track of GEMS testing their NXT robot’s ability to follow a line
and videos from past year’s GEMS programs at www. seas.upenn.edu/awe/gems.
ElAyNA ZACK BSE in MEAM 2013 Email: elaynaz@seas.upenn.edu
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student news N E W S F R O M P E N N ’ S A D VA N C I N G W O M E N I N E N G I N E E R I N G
BE SENIOR RECOUNTS HER SENIOR DESIGN PROjECT With very little time remaining before end-of-semester presentations, there has been a frenzied excitement among senior design teams throughout the Penn engineering school. Since my team’s formation in our BE curriculum semesterly labs, we have been eagerly looking forward to working together on this program culminating project. The Lub Dub Club, as we passionately call ourselves, focuses on delivering hydrogel materials to infarct regions in patient hearts. Infarcts are damaged areas of the heart wall that occur as a result of cardiac damage, such as a heart attack. These regions, which may not heal properly over time, weaken the overall structure of the heart and could lead to patient complications down the road. Dr. Jason Burdick’s lab, who is mentoring us throughout the project, focuses on infarct repair using hydrogel materials. By inserting a support material into the infarct regions, damaged portions of the heart can heal accurately and strengthen. The only issue is getting the hydrogel material into the patient. Current
studies have only been completed using open heart surgery techniques which may not be available to human patients due to complication concerns. Thus our catheter delivery system will transport the hydrogel materials directly to the heart without invasive surgery. We will be leveraging the properties of a rapid mixing hydrogel which is initially liquid when its three components (polymer, initiator, and catalyst) are separated. These components will be delivered using a dual tubing system and then homogeneously mixed through a specially designed static mixer before implantation into the patient’s infarct region, at which point the hydrogel’s gel network will form. We are currently going through evaluations of our prototype and eagerly waiting to present our work at the end of the semester.
lOGAN TROPPITO BSE in BE 2013, MSE in BE 2014 Focus: Drug Delivery & Nanotech Email: troppito@seas.upenn.edu
SENIOR SEND OFF On April 21, seniors gathered for brunch to celebrate their graduation with AWE. Of the original 51 women who started their Penn Engineering career with our AWE pre-orientation program, 44 are on track to complete their degrees in Penn Engineering. Seniors are headed to PhD and Master’s programs at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, and to work at Honeywell, Scheie Eye Institute and the Cleveland Clinic.
CIS jUNIOR RECOUNTS THE EXPlORATION TO FIND HER MAjOR I came to Penn thinking that I wanted to study bioengineering. On a whim, I decided to take a computer science class during my first semester at Penn. I had never written a line of code before, but I quickly realized that programming was as close to fun as homework would get. I began to see myself incorporating computer science into bioengineering as a career, perhaps doing research that required computers to process massive data sets or to do complex modeling of biological phenomena. During my second semester, I applied for an independent study within Brian Litt’s neuroengineering lab. My first research project involved writing scripts to perform data analysis on iEEG data from epilepsy patients, looking for seizure biomarkers. After that, my projects always had a bioengineering goal but were heavily computational and required me to pick up new computer skills that I later found valuable as I took
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more computer science courses. I quickly decided that I liked bytes as much or more than than brain cells, and under the advice of Brian and other members of the Litt Lab, I decided to change my major to computer science. I still work in the Litt Lab, but as a software engineer, developing an app that helps epilepsy clinicians create 3D reconstructions of their patients’ brains after electrode implants to better determine the location of seizure onset, and to determine if surgery is a feasible treatment option. Though my path didn’t turn out quite like planned, I will always be grateful to the Litt Lab for supporting me as I found my way at Penn.
AllISON PEARCE BSE in CIS 2014 Email: alpearce@seas.upenn.edu
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alumni news N E W S F R O M P E N N ’ S A D VA N C I N G W O M E N I N E N G I N E E R I N G
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: HADAS KRESS-GAZIT HADAS KRESS-GAZIT Assistant Professor at Cornell Dept: Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering PhD (Electrical Engineering), UPenn, ‘08 MS (Engineering), UPenn, ‘05 BSc (Department of Electrical Engineering), Technion, ‘02 Website: http://verifiablerobotics.com/ Email: hadaskg@cornell.edu
Hadas Kress-Gazit is an alumna of SEAS’s GRASP (General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception) Laboratory of Penn, where she was awarded an MS and PhD in Electrical and Systems Engineering under the direction of Professor George Pappas, after completing her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at Israel’s Technion. After graduating from Penn in the summer of 2008, she joined Cornell’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering as an Assistant Professor, where she co-directs the Autonomous Systems Lab. Professor Kress-Gazit’s research addresses the creation of high-level interactions with robots. By drawing on techniques from hybrid systems, linguistics, control theory, model checking, verification, motion planning, test planning, and logic, her work studies how to formalize high-level goals and automatically create controllers for robotic systems so that correct behavior is guaranteed. To illustrate, consider a robot designed to clean a room. Kress-Gazit’s research involves developing methods to automatically generate code corresponding to the high-level behavior a user specifies (using structured English and temporal logic), such as instructing the robot to avoid liquids spills or vacuum only specific objects, rather than have to manually write code for every individual behavior. Manually programming the robot may be particularly inefficient because such code must be able to account for every permutation of situations the robot could conceivably encounter. Other challenges her group addresses are to ensure that the autonomous behavior is safe and guaranteed to work, to determine when it is not possible to implement the desired behavior in the first place, and ways of communicating feasiblity to the user.
Her graduate research in robotics at Penn earned her several important distinctions, including the Charles Hallac and Sarah Keil Wolf Award, and Best Student Paper Award Finalist recognition at two major international robotics conferences. Kress-Gazit recalls her time at Penn fondly, and believes many unique aspects of SEAS, and the GRASP lab in particular, contributed to her success. She praises the school’s “noncompetitive” culture where student cooperation prevails, which she believes distinguishes it from programs housing other top robotics programs. During her graduate school years, she also benefited the emphasis on cross-disciplinary collaboration, which enabled her to engage in work drawing on Penn’s interdisciplinary strength, and work closely with faculty from other departments, including Computer and Information Science. Some of those collaborations continue today – she still maintains contact with professors like Rajeev Alur of Penn CIS, with whom she collaborates as one of 18 PIs on a multi-institution, $10 million dollar National Science Foundation ExCAPE award project to make computer programming more intuitive and less error-prone. Professor Kress-Gazit recalls that at every stage in her career beginning with her undergraduate studies, women have been underrepresented in her academic sphere – classmates and professors then, and colleagues now. She is also puzzled that her Electrical Engineering major does not enjoy the relatively balanced gender composition of fields like Bioengineering, given that they employ very similar methodologies. To encourage the “critical mass” of women she believes is necessary to sustain a healthy gender balance in engineering and the physical sciences at the student and faculty levels, Kress-Gazit has participated in several initiatives at Cornell. She advises female students at Cornell, and participates in luncheons with female students and faculty in her department. She has also mentored female high school students on week-long summer research projects as part of a program at Cornell, during which she introduced them to programming through projects with iRobot Create - an experience some found so enjoyable that they founded robotics clubs upon their return to school. If she could make one wish for current students, it would be that they be exposed to more female role models in academic engineering – for the sake of “both male and female students,” she says, emphasizing, “diversity is good for everyone!”
SHAUDI MAHDAVI
PhD in ESE, shaudi@seas.upenn.edu
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alumni news N E W S F R O M P E N N ’ S A D VA N C I N G W O M E N I N E N G I N E E R I N G
AwE’S FIRST ALUMNI PANEL Janelle was involved with the National Society of Black Engineers and the Penn Band.
L to R: Panel coordinator, Hilary Grosskopf, Jeanine Gubler Heck, Janelle Johnson, Sydney Kestle, Allison Rozsits, and panel coordinator, Sophia Stylianos.
On March 27, 2013, AWE hosted an Alumni Panel for undergrads in Heilmeier Halel. Four female SEAS grads returned to campus to give advice covering topics for freshmen such as “What does it actually mean to be an engineer?” to “How did Penn prepare you for your first year in the ‘real world’?” or “How do you apply what you learned at Penn to your specific job?” The panel consisted of Jeanine Gubler Heck, CIS ’99, Janelle Johnson, CBE ’08, Sydney Kestle, BE ’11, and Allison Rozsits, BE ’12. Jeanine is currently a Senior Director in the Technology + Product group at Comcast. She has been there for 6 years, and is responsible for product efforts related to content discovery. In this role, Jeanine has led the creation of a voice recognition capability that lets customers control their TV through voice commands. She has also launched a cloud-enabled TV search engine, and built the company’s first TV recommendations engine. At Penn, Jeanine was involved with SWE and was also captain of the cheerleading team. After graduating from Penn, Jeanine moved to New York and worked at Gemini Systems, an IT consulting company, providing solutions to financial services organizations. After six years there, she enrolled full-time at Columbia Business School, receiving her MBA in 2007. Janelle has been employed at Philadelphia Gas Works since graduation. She originally worked in the Chemical Services Department as a Chemist until to 2012. Currently, she works in Gas Processing Department as a Senior Staff Engineer. She is also a part-time graduate student at Villanova University majoring in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering and will graduate in May 2013. At Penn,
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Sydney returned to her hometown of Washington, D.C., and is currently a second year law student at American University, Washington College of Law. After her first year, she interned with Judge Jimmie V. Reyna of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. While at the Fed Circuit, she had the opportunity to work on patent specific cases, as well as cases brought under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. This summer, Sydney will be a summer associate at the intellectual property firm, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garret & Dunner LLP, working with the mechanical practice group. While at Penn, Sydney worked in a tissue engineering and biomechanics lab, and was a member of Chi Omega and SWE. Allison has been working as a Product Development Engineer Associate at DePuy Synthes (a Johnson & Johnson company) in West Chester, PA. She is currently in a rotational engineering program and has been working in product development, but will be moving to a manufacturing role in June, and will continue on to other job functions across varying geographical sites for the next 2 to 3 years. While at Penn, she was a member of AOE engineering sorority, Club Swimming, and BMES. The panelists all offered a unique background and perspective on the field of engineering. At the end of the panel, each woman offered a take-away piece of advice. Jeanine offered a piece of advice that Billy Joel shared when he spoke to her class during her time at Penn: follow your dreams. Even if you can’t achieve them right away, know what your dreams are and make sure you’re getting there! Janelle stressed the importance of networking. In the professional sense, be sure to always reach out to people for opportunities. Additionally, as a professional engineer, she advised everyone to support each other and reminded us that we can’t do it on our own. Sydney wanted everyone to remember that your job does not define you – be sure to keep pursuing hobbies. Make sure you have an outlet so you don’t get too caught up in your job. Allison told the women in the audience to “make yourself; don’t find yourself.” Be active, not passive in your professional pursuits. AWE hopes to continue this tradition and host an alumni panel with SEAS alum from different engineering fields annually!
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faculty news N E W S F R O M P E N N ’ S A D VA N C I N G W O M E N I N E N G I N E E R I N G
TwO MINUTES wITH KjK
KATHERINE j. KUCHENBECKER Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation Dept: Mechanical and Applied Mechanics
KEVIN MONKO
PhD (Mechanical Engineering), Stanford, ‘06 MS (Mechanical Engineering), Stanford, ‘02 BSc (Mechanical Engineering), Stanford, ‘00
When AWE sat down with the Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), Katherine Kuchenbecker, she had just been notified that she will be tenured and promoted to Associate Professor in MEAM—which we believe makes her complete official title Katherine Julianne Kuchenbecker, Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, future Associate Professor, and former Heartbreaker to the Stars. Read on to find out why and so much more! Where are you from? Los Angeles. California or Philly? Philly, right now! That’s where I live and I love it. Favorite class you took in college? Vehicle Dynamics. Chris Gerdes was the teacher. He’s a Penn alum – Mechanical Engineering M&T. Favorite part about teaching at Penn? The students. Getting to stand on stage with a captive audience three times a week, and they laugh at my jokes! At least most of my jokes. They make me laugh, too. Greatest research milestone? We invented a way to add touch feedback to robotic surgery. This is a hard problem that a lot of people have worked on, and we came up with a very practical, simple, elegant, and effective way to let you feel what the tools are touching during surgery.
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Website: http://seas.upenn.edu/~kuchenbe Email: kuchenbecker@seas.upenn.edu
Pool volleyball or beach volleyball? I’d have to pick pool volleyball. I hate sand, and I like water. But for watching? Beach volleyball. Kerri Walsh, in fact, because she was my friend at Stanford. We were in the same class. I also went to middle school and high school with the future members of Maroon 5. Adam Levine asked me out, and I said no. He was a seventh grader and I was an eighth grader. He had chutzpah. If you could pick a volleyball partner in SEAS who would it be? For SEAS volleyball, I would team up with Kendall Turner, a sophomore currently taking my MEAM 211 course. She’s on Penn’s varsity volleyball team, and I think we could take on anyone in SEAS in doubles. Who would win in a bicycle race, you or your husband, Professor Fiene? Professor Fiene. I’m kind of a slow poke on the bike. He always has to bike behind me so he doesn’t leave me in the dust. But there are many reasons for that. He regularly exercises, and I… do not. And I have the same bicycle I’ve had since I was 16. What are your retirement plans? Scuba diving in the Caribbean. I like being with my family, too, so they’d have to come visit.
SOPHIA STYLIANOS BSE in MEAM 2013 Email: sstyl@seas.upenn.edu
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awards & recognition N E W S F R O M P E N N ’ S A D VA N C I N G W O M E N I N E N G I N E E R I N G
jAROS BAUM & BOLLES AwARD
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRADUATE RESEARCH FEllOWSHIP
The Jaros Baum & Bolles Award was established in 2008 by Letetia Tedori Callinan (MEAM 1983) and is awarded to a Penn Engineering student who has demonstrated a commitment to advancing women in engineering (e.g., through mentoring or as a role model). Since 2008, we have recognized many of our amazing women student leaders who are all now doing equally amazing things in their careers.
This year 8 Penn Engineering women, both alumnae and current students, won the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSFsupported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing researchbased master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S.
Julie Williams, MSE (2009 winner, 2010 graduate) is working at Schlumberger as a Wireline Field Engineer and has just been transferred to her fourth location, Equatorial Guinea.
Elizabeth Beattie (MEAM ‘13) will begin doctoral studies this fall at Penn in mechanical engineering. She will work with Dr. Vijay Kumar in the GRASP laboratory on development of micro-bio-robotic systems.
Alexandra Malikova, ESE (2010) completed her Master’s in June 2012, and now works at the MTA New York City Transit with the Capital Planning and Budget department where her focus is on helping to plan the capital program.
Naomi Fitter (undergrad degree from University of Cinncinati) is currently finishing her first year as a MEAM PhD student here at Penn, working in the Penn Haptics Lab with Dr. Katherine Kuchenbecker.
Samantha Wang, BE (2011) is a Product Design Engineer at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, OH. She is currently in the New Business Creation organization developing new technologies for the Tide brand.
Preeya Khanna (BE ’12) is currently a first year grad student in the UC Berkeley/UCSF joint Bioengineering Ph.D program. She is currently in Dr. Jose Carmena’s lab studying properties of neural oscillations and using them in brian-machine-interface tasks.
Sheetal Rajagopal, CBE (2012) is an Associate with PwC’s consulting practice in New York City. Her clients have included a financial institution, pharmaceutical company, and international development organization.
Mi Young (Michelle) Kwon (BE ‘13) is enrolling in the Biomedical Graduate Studies program at Penn, and is considering working in a lab at IDOM (the Institute of Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism).
This year’s winner is equally as fabulous. Gabriela Moreno-Cesar is a senior in Digital Media Design and has been an active member of the Women in Computer Science student organization over the past 4 years. Gaby has been the treasurer, the representative at faculty meetings, the President, and currently the senior advisor. In addition, Gaby led the charge with fellow CIS student Trisha Kothari to create the WICS Residential Program, a new living and learning program for women in computer science within the College House System at Penn. Currently Gaby is finishing up her senior design where she is building a special-interest social network for WiCS groups in schools around the nation called WiCS University. Gaby will be attending Carnegie Mellon in the fall to get her master’s in Human-Computer Interaction and will be interning at VMware as a User Experience Engineer this summer.
Dominique Ingato (CBE, CHE, ‘12) is a first-year graduate student studying chemical engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Advised by Dr. Young Jik Kwon, she is researching nanotheragnostic agents for use in combined imaging and therapy. Corinne Riggin (undergraduate degree from University of Maryland) is a second year graduate student in Bioengineering at Penn. Laura Struzyna (undergraduate degree from Duke) is starting her PhD in the Bioengineering here at Penn this Fall and plans to research neural tissue engineering. Ashleigh Thomas (EE, Math ‘13) is pursuing a PhD in math at Duke where she plans to work on applied algebraic topology. Congratulations to all of the winners!
ABRAHAM RESEARCH AwARD Given for the first time this year, the Abraham Research Award is intended to support a female undergraduate student conducting research at SEAS for the summer. The first winner is Kinjal Shah, a freshmen in Bioengineering who will work with Dr David Issadore, a new faculty member in BE, looking at introducing microfluidics-based genetic analysis to point-of-care clinical applications.
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advancing women in engineering The AWE program is dedicated to recruiting, retaining, and promoting women within Penn Engineering. Our goals are to: Develop and support initiatives to increase the number of women interested in studying engineering at Penn and elsewhere. Enhance the overall academic experience of female students in Penn Engineering via targeted curricular development and increased research and professional opportunities. Create and support social and networking opportunities for women in engineering.
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