VIPER News
Akaash Padmanabha (VIPER '22) Publishes in Energies
Click to read about his work and experience in the laboratory of Professor James Pikul in their recent publication, "A Minimal Volume Hermetic Packaging Design for High-Energy-Density Micro-Energy Systems."
Natalia Acero (VIPER '21) Publishes in Nature Partner Journals: 2D Materials and Applications
Learn more about Natalia and her work in Professor Deep Jariwala's laboratory studying "Direct visualization of out-of-equilibrium structural transformations in atomically thin chalcogenides"
Vignesh Bhethanabotla and Adithya Sriram (VIPER '20) awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Vignesh Bhethanabotla and Adithya Sriram, two current seniors in the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER) at the University of Pennsylvania, have been awarded highly-selective National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships!
Using Novel Materials for Adaptable Acoustics
VIPER students Abhinav Ramkumar (VIPER '21) and William Deo (VIPER '21) are awarded a Student Arts Innovation Grant from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation
The LRSM Building Recreated in ‘Minecraft
Ben Hammel (VIPER '21) and Randy Chen built the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM) in the virtual Penn campus on Minecraft.
My VIPER Summer
Students and professors in the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research spent the summer in the lab.
From the Classroom to the Lab and Back Again
Senior Adithya Sriram is busy earning two degrees, researching new applications for graphene, and preparing physics courses for students in West Philadelphia.
Gift for New Energy Science & Technology Building at Penn
P. Roy Vagelos and Diana Vagelos have made a gift of $50 million to Penn Arts & Sciences for a new science center to house researchers focused on energy science.
Prof. Andrew Rappe, VIPER Faculty Co-Director, and Colleagues Identify New Type of Insulating Material
A newly identified insulating material could one day enable more-efficient electronics or even quantum computing.