REACT Emergency Shelter Sprint Workshop
The objective of the Emergency Shelter sprint workshop was to tackle a global design challenge related to water collection and purification (ACT 1/ACT 2).
Author: Felice Macera
REACT’s 2017 Cohort’s summer at GIANT ends with applause
Our nine students at GIANT finished their summer research program in Grenoble on July 28.
REACT PI receives Invited Professorship position for 2018
Russ Composto was awarded a 1-month Invited Visiting Professorship to be used during the summer 2018 from the Communauté Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE UGA).
Prototyping Workshop in Photos
The 2017 REACT cohort at GIANT was challenged with a three day workshop of hands-on tent prototyping.
GIANT hosts REACT Prototyping Workshop
The 2017 REACT cohort at GIANT was challenged with a workshop that started with a quick overview of SheterBox’s disaster relief mission to deploy emergency tents.
SURGG (Penn’s Summer Undergraduate Research Group Grant)
Active Coating Technology (ACT)-Enabled Relief Tents for Natural Disaster, Summer 2017: This collaborative project brings students from Schools of Engineering, Design, and Arts and Sciences to design tent prototypes that are coated with active coatings to divert and collect water.
REACT Fellow Featured in Penn Engineering Blog
Neha Manohar joined REACT in 2016. Currently she is at GIANT in France to work with two French partners, Drs. Giovanna Fragneto at the Institut Laue-Langevin and David Riassetto at LMGP. Read what Neha has shared with Penn Engineering about her time in REACT thus far, including her experience hosting…
French Students Start in Penn REACT Labs
On May 30, 2017, five REACT labs welcomed students from Grenoble into their groups. These students are from three institutions (IUT – Grenoble Alpes University, INAC-CEA-Grenoble and Phelma INPG – Grenoble Institute of Tech).
Welcome Lunch for 2017 Summer Students
On May 30, visiting French students from Grenoble, in the REACT program, and American undergraduates in the Singh Center REU program met their research mentors at a lunch on their first day at the University of Pennsylvania.
REACT undergrads and Fellows at GIIP 2017
Nine REACT students started their research experience in French REACT partners’ labs at GIANT in Grenoble, France on May 22, 2017.