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PENN 10: VIPER's Gautam Nagaraj featured in 34th Street Magazine
April 19, 2017
Senior Gautam Nagaraj, VIPER Class of '17, discusses his aerospace ambitions in the April edition of 34th Street Magazine. Read more here.
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Justin Qian, VIPER Class of '19, Receives NACE-Philadelphia Section Award
March 17, 2017
VIPER sophomore Justin Qian recently received the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) Philadelphia Section award. For more information about Justin and his research at Penn, see this description. For details about NACE/Philadelphia, click here.
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VIPER's Yann Pfitzer (Class of '19) Describes Climate Change Impact on Ocean Phytoplankton (Video)
December 5, 2016
Yann Pfitzer of VIPER was recently featured at the College's annual Family Weekend at Penn, as part of its Undergraduate Research Poster Presentation held October 2016 - see video here.
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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.