Prof. Randall Kamien wins the Provost’s Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring! Congratulations, Randy! provost.upenn.edu/teaching-awards

Rosalind Franklin made pioneering contributions in understanding the structures of carbon, DNA, and helical and spherical viruses. In this brief article, Prof. Virgil Percec and Dr. Qi Xiao of the Dept. of Chemistry pay homage to her scientific legacy. doi.org/10.1016/j.chem…

Prof. Eleni Katifori from the Dept. of Physics & Astronomy has been recognized with the 2021 Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research at the American Physical Society (American Physical Society APS DSOFT) March Meeting. march.aps.org/honors/eleni-k… Congratulations, Eleni!

Prof. Shu Yang of the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the Materials Research Society (Materials Research Society (MRS))! Congratulations, Shu!

MEAM Assistant Professor James Pikul (PikulLab), has won the prestigious 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award. This award recognizes outstanding new faculty who were nominated by 3M researchers and selected based on research, experience and academic leadership. Congratulations, James!

In a recent Editor's Choice article in Advanced Intelligent Systems, MEAM Asst. Prof. James Pikul (PikulLab) with lab members Min Wang and Yue Gao, demonstrate a robot capable of automatically steering toward metallic surfaces it can “eat.” Read more about their work@ bit.ly/Pikul_Robot

Honored to have this opportunity to follow Karen Winey’s footsteps as the next Penn MSE chair ⁦Penn Engineering⁩ ⁦@PennMatSci⁩ ⁦Vijay Kumar⁩ ⁦Center for Soft and Living Matter⁩ ⁦⁦Liang Feng @Penn MSE⁩ blog.seas.upenn.edu/karen-winey-le…

Artificial Chromatophores Enable Surfaces with Squid-like Active Camouflage - Penn Engineering ⁦Penn Engineering ⁦Materials Science and Engineering at Penn⁩ ⁦Center for Soft and Living Matter⁩ blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-engineeri…

The beauty of Kirigami, simple, scalable and material independent. We demonstrated a meter scale fog harvester with the help of vortices formed on pyramidal centimeter scale units ⁦Weitzman School of Design at Penn⁩ ⁦Penn Engineering⁩ ⁦Materials Science and Engineering at Penn⁩ nature.com/articles/s4146…

Please join us in the conversation of sustainability in the built environment, especially how materials can contribute. Please register and see you on Friday, 9/24 at noon. climateweek.provost.upenn.edu/event/sustaina…

Glad to contribute to this exciting work Materials Science and Engineering at Penn @YangLab_UPenn Penn Engineering Jie Yin

We are excited announce our Kickoff Meeting, to be held Wed-Thu June 12 -13 at Penn, featuring a diverse range of speakers and topics in soft and living matter. Registration is required, but free: forms.gle/mqdwyfja9y5Qsv… Join us for two days of exciting science in Philly!

Fantastic meeting celebrating soft & living matter, & honoring Andrea Liu, the Duchess of Disorder! I couldn't agree more with Paul Chaikin – the future of soft matter is nonequilibrium physics & it's incredibly bright! Center for Soft and Living Matter APS DSOFT

Postdoc opening in 3D printing, starting in Oct/Nov. The candidate should have a PhD in material sci., civil, environmental or mech. eng. Experience in mineralization, biomass synthesis, and bacterial/algae growth is a plus. Pls send CV, letter of interest, 2 selected papers.

Molecular dynamics simulations show the dynamics of a cooling glass are very different from those of a heating glass, implying the lack of a phase transition between poorly and well-annealed glass Read go.aps.org/3Wv0bqH Center for Soft and Living Matter @Gulliver_lab Giulio Biroli @LP_ENS_

Congratulations to the Center for Soft and Living Matter Founder & Director Prof. Andrea Liu, the recipient of 2025 APS Leo P. Kandanoff Prize!