Sustainability News

Four prize-winning teams will design and implement post-graduation projects that make a positive, lasting difference here in Philadelphia and beyond.

A new study co-led by computational Penn engineering professor Aleksandra Vojvodic and collaborators offers an unprecedented view of the complicated degradation process of a material based on one of the rarest elements, iridium. Their findings, which show how this catalytic agent breaks down at the atomic scale, pave the way for better hydrogen fuel production.

Dorit Aviv, director of Weitzman’s Thermal Architecture Lab, studies how humans, technology, and design intersect, paving the way for the development of novel approaches to cooling people efficiently.

A new design for solar-powered data centers reduces weight, power consumption, and overall complexity, making large-scale deployment more feasible.

New England states rely heavily on natural gas power plants—many of them aging turbines that are expensive to replace and hard to retire. But new opportunities are emerging. Renewable natural gas, hydrogen co-firing, and carbon capture with utilization or storage can accelerate power-sector decarbonization while supporting waste management, agriculture, and industrial innovation across the region.