News
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Gift for New Energy Science & Technology Building at Penn
April 16, 2019
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. Read more here.
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Prof. Andrew Rappe, VIPER Faculty Co-Director, and Colleagues Identify New Type of Insulating Material
July 23, 2018
Read more here.
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The University of Pennsylvania Releases FY17 Sustainability Annual Report
March 22, 2018
To learn more about Penn's efforts for greater sustainability, visit this page!
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The Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER) enrolls talented, prepared, and motivated students who are interested in energy science and engineering. To hear from a VIPER student about his research at Penn, click here! For more general info, see our Frequently Asked Questions page.
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Connor Lippincott (VIPER '16)
Connor spent his summer working on a synthetic organometallic chemistry project under the mentorship of Prof. Eric Schelter and Ph.D. candidate Justin Bogart. He focused on rare earth separations, an important field due to the unstable economy surrounding the rare earth metals.