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Category: Honors + Awards

Portrait of Student Jordyn Harris at Platt Performing Arts Center.
Honors + Awards, Students

Performer, Biomedical Engineer, and Soon-To-Be Graduate

Mixing it up is what graduating fourth-year Jordyn Harris likes best. At Penn she has been an applied science in biomedical sciences major while also … Read More ›

Posted on May 19, 2025
A picture of student prize winners in front of a screen with the Penn logo. From left to right, the people are as follows:(From left) Provost John L. Jackson Jr, Jack Roney, Ejun Mary Hong, Imani Nkrumah Ardayfio, Inaya Zaman, Rashmi Acharya, and Penn President J. Larry Jameson.
Events, Honors + Awards

A Celebration of Creativity and Innovation for Social Good

At an annual reception for the 2025 winners of the President’s Innovation, Engagement, and Sustainability Prizes, held in early May, Prize winners, their families and … Read More ›

Posted on May 13, 2025
Alumni, Events, Honors + Awards, Students

Designing the Future: Penn Engineering’s 2025 Senior Design Project Competition

Consider the following problems: Every year, millions of people struggle to recover mobility following strokes. Hundreds of millions need eye exams, but live far from … Read More ›

Posted on May 12, 2025May 12, 2025
Honors + Awards, Students

Adventures in Innovation: Penn Engineering Startups Lead Venture Lab Challenge

To form a venture is, quite literally, to go on an adventure. The words have the same Latin root, meaning to head toward what is … Read More ›

Posted on May 6, 2025May 14, 2025
Picture of student Piotr Lazarek, a dual-degree fourth-year student in Penn’s Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology (M&T) out in front of building on campus
Honors + Awards, In the News

Using Satellites, Drones, and AI for More Sustainable and Efficient Agriculture

More than 65% of all nitrogen fertilizers that farmers apply in fields worldwide are not used by crops and wash into our natural ecosystems, leading to … Read More ›

Posted on May 1, 2025
Melanie Herbert (center), a fourth-year in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, created Sync Labs—an innovative AI solution that addresses caregiving in senior care. Joined by Nami Lindquist (left) of the Wharton School and Penn Engineering and Alex Popescu of Penn Engineering (right) their technology, which has earned them the 2025 President’s Innovation Prize, allows caregivers to see three times more seniors while providing more personalized care.
Honors + Awards, In the News, Research + Innovation, Students

Penn Students Develop AI-Driven Solution to Transform Senior Care

Having spent years as a child patient requiring surgeries, chemotherapy, and hospital stays, Melanie Herbert, a fourth-year student in the School of Engineering and Applied … Read More ›

Posted on April 25, 2025
Headshots of faculty members from Penn Top row: Dennis Discher, Michael Correa-Jones, and Cherie Kagan. Bottom row: Sophie Rosenfeld and Susan Weiss.
Honors + Awards, In the News

Five Penn Faculty Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Five faculty at the University of Pennsylvania have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary society and independent research center … Read More ›

Posted on April 24, 2025
(Top left) Team PIXEL: Ejun Mary Hong and Jack Roney; (top right) The Nourish to Flourish team: Rashmi Acharya, Imani Nkrumah Ardayfio, and Inaya Zaman. (Bottom left) For Sync Labs, Melanie Herbert, Nami Lindquist, and Alexandra Popescu; (bottom right) Piotr Lazarek for Nirby.
Honors + Awards, In the News

Class of 2025 President’s Engagement, Innovation, and Sustainability Prize Winners Announced

University of Pennsylvania President J. Larry Jameson today announced the recipients of the 2025 President’s Engagement, Innovation, and Sustainability Prizes. Awarded annually, the Prizes empower Penn … Read More ›

Posted on April 17, 2025
Pictured from left to right: Helen Jin, Arjun Krishna, Christopher Watson, Neelay Velingker, Vivian Lin, Ezra Edelman, Alex Shypula, Nicolas Menand and Thomas Zhang. Not pictured: Behrad Moniri, Joey Velez-Ginorio and Yue Yang.
Honors + Awards, In the News, Students

The ASSET Center Advances Trustworthy AI with Support from AWS

As AI continues to evolve, its integration into safety-critical domains, such as autonomous vehicles or medical diagnosis tools, has raised pressing concerns. Current machine learning … Read More ›

Posted on April 9, 2025April 9, 2025
2025 Penn Engineering Student Choice Award Winners
Honors + Awards

The 2025 Penn Engineering Student Choice Awards

Penn Engineering is pleased to announce the faculty recipients of the 2025 Student Choice Awards. Each year, the Penn Engineering undergraduate student body thoughtfully selects … Read More ›

Posted on March 27, 2025

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