Kevin T Turner
@kevin_t_turner
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Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics @PennEngineers
Joined March 2014
Most people today take for granted or just don’t understand the amount of science, technology, innovation, precision, and efficiency that goes into growing and producing this plant. Sometimes it’s a good thing to stop and remember that. @PurdueAg @PurdueAgronomy
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@UofPenn Read the full article here: https://t.co/2g2qkl4JiY or in the Spring/Summer edition of the Morris Arboretum's Seasons magazine:
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Seasons Spring/Summer 2025 Read the latest issue of Seasons below, or download the PDF here.
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Grateful to organize the 2025 GRS Adhesion Science, creating a space for young researchers to share their work. Excited to have experts from academia & industry join us for a career panel discussion! @ProfZhaoMIT @Junsoo_twit Welcome to apply!!! @GordonConf @Princeton @UTAustin
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How can many robots work together effectively to collect information about the environment? This is a question Victoria Edwards, a fifth-year doctoral student in MEAM, is working to solve using complex systems theory. Watch the full video: https://t.co/Y73Cil1MvY
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Mechanical metamaterials are often designed with repeating cell geometries to achieve stiffness and high strength for their weight. A study finds disorderly cells—as seen in natural materials like bone—are tougher than neatly ordered cells. In PNAS Nexus: https://t.co/M5lvhFyTsQ
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Stronger materials, inspired by nature? Led by @kevin_t_turner, researchers from @meam_penn, @pennphys and @AarhusUni found that adding just the right amount of disorder to a material’s structure boosts toughness by 2.6x. https://t.co/xSz7EF3hhl
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Congratulations to John Bassani, Professor Emeritus of @MEAM_Penn, on receiving the 2025 @SocEngScience William Prager Medal. https://t.co/vpOwiVzsmt
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We kicked off our Spring Seminar Series this week with Thao "Vicky" Nguyen of @JohnsHopkins and her talk on "Modeling the Unique Behaviors of Liquid Crystal Elastomers," highlighting the potential of liquid crystal elastomers in soft robotics and advanced materials engineering.
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We are excited to welcome Wensi Wu, a new Assistant Research Professor in MEAM. At Penn, Wu plans to develop predictive virtual models of the heart to tackle critical challenges in cardiovascular research. 🫀 @PennCVI @CHOP_Research @HeartCare4Kids
https://t.co/gWYPmTz8LB
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We extend a warm welcome to Wensi Wu, who joins the MEAM faculty as Assistant Research Professor. Wensi’s research sits at the convergence of applied mechanics, scientific machine learning, and...
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🚨Exciting Faculty Positions @PennEngineers! Join our AI for Science initiative backed by $750M investment & shape the future of scientific discovery through AI/ML, from materials design and drug discovery to autonomy and climate modeling. ✨Here's what we offer:
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Climate Week @ Penn starts today! One of today’s events included a panel of @PennEngineers to discuss and take questions on technological resilience against climate change. One of the panelists was MEAM Professor and Chair @kevin_t_turner.
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Amazing day for @PennEngineers, the future is bright for our students @zgives @pappasg69 @DFMeaneyLab @kevin_t_turner @raviradhak @mkearnsupenn @AI4Code @SidDeliwala
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On a breezy, overcast early fall day, members of the Penn community gathered to dedicate the University’s new center for data science and artificial intelligence: Amy Gutmann Hall.
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Chris Stabile has defended his dissertation on Dynamically Tunable Adhesion and Friction via Active Materials under the guidance of @kevin_t_turner. 🎉 "The camaraderie is what I will remember most," says Stabile. Read more: https://t.co/CCG6o6kLfv
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Watching the Olympics and surprised to see that the most elite track athletes wearing highly engineered uniforms still must use safety pins to attach their number bibs. Seems like the adhesion community could develop a more elegant solution @adhesion_the
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Ready for the great meeting starting Monday morning. Speaking @zhigangsuo @NPeppas @CretonCost @ProfZhaoMIT @NguyenLabJHU @ShuYangPenn @kevin_t_turner and many others.
The technical program for the upcoming AmeriMech Symposium on Fracture of Soft Materials has been posted online: https://t.co/vQQlzEte3t, featuring many prominent speakers @zhigangsuo @NPeppas @CretonCost @ProfZhaoMIT @NguyenLabJHU @ShuYangPenn @kevin_t_turner and more.
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This is Philadelphia. Just a man in tricorn hat boarding a SEPTA train. We have lots of history and mass transit.
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Congratulations Dr. Sage Fulco for successfully defending his PhD dissertation, “Controlling Fracture Behavior Through Architecture” under the advisory of MEAM Professor @kevin_t_turner. 🎉 https://t.co/T3hVttmzdo
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In a culmination of years of interdisciplinary research, Sage Fulco, a PhD student in MEAM, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled "Controlling Fracture Behavior Through Architectur...
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MEAM is pleased to announce the doctoral dissertation defense of Sage Fulco, “Controlling Fracture Behavior Through Architecture." Fulco is advised by @kevin_t_turner. Abstract: https://t.co/EYpHcpKXpg Fri, Apr 12 @ 9:30 AM A8, David Rittenhouse Laboratory
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Great to visit and give a seminar in Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech today! Fantastic discussions with students and faculty, including my host Michael Bartlett @SMSLaboratory
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