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Category: Honors + Awards

Picture of two Penn students, Yash Dhir (left) and Rahul Nambiar have been awarded the 2024 President’s Innovation Prize for their web-based educational management tool, Jochi.
Honors + Awards, In the News, Students

Making Life Easier for Students with Learning Differences

Since the initial days of his first year at Penn, fourth-year student Yash Dhir has been steadily working on an idea that came to him … Read More ›

Posted on May 7, 2024
Academics, Honors + Awards, In the News, Research + Innovation, Students

Penn Engineering Ph.D. Students Receive Funding from Amazon to Advance Trustworthy AI

AI tools are being rapidly integrated into our daily lives, therefore their responsible development and regulation are paramount. This is the core mission of Penn … Read More ›

Posted on April 26, 2024April 27, 2024
Stack of the layers in the ontogenetic device.
Honors + Awards, In the News, Research + Innovation

Illuminating the Unseen: Former Penn iGEM Team Publishes Award-Winning Optogenetic Device

For bioengineers today, light does more than illuminate microscopes. Stimulating cells with light waves, a field known as optogenetics, has opened new doors to understanding … Read More ›

Posted on April 25, 2024April 25, 2024
Piotr Lazarek
Honors + Awards, In the News

Penn’s Venture Lab Announces Winner of Annual Startup Challenge

The University of Pennsylvania’s Venture Lab has announced the winner of its highly anticipated annual Startup Challenge. Piotr Lazarek, a junior from Engineering and Wharton, … Read More ›

Posted on April 23, 2024April 25, 2024
PIP and PEP Winners
Honors + Awards, In the News

Class of 2024 President’s Engagement, Innovation Prize Winners Announced

University of Pennsylvania Interim President J. Larry Jameson today announced the recipients of the 2024 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prizes. Awarded annually, the Prizes empower Penn undergraduate … Read More ›

Posted on April 19, 2024April 18, 2024
Penn’s new AAAS Fellows for 2024, clockwise from top left: Dolores Albarracín, T. Tony Cai, Noam A. Cohen, Shu Yang, Edward A. Stadtmauer, and Michael Lampson.
Honors + Awards, In the News

Six from Penn Elected 2024 AAAS Fellows

Six faculty researchers representing six University of Pennsylvania schools have been elected 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. They are among … Read More ›

Posted on April 19, 2024April 18, 2024
Kyle Vining poses in his lab.
Honors + Awards, In the News

Engineering Hope: Kyle Vining Earns Hartwell Foundation Award to Study Childhood Leukemia

Every year, thousands of American children are diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer. The disease begins in bone … Read More ›

Posted on April 15, 2024April 17, 2024
Deep Jariwala
Honors + Awards, In the News

Deep Jariwala Receives Optica’s 2024 Adolph Lomb Medal

  Deep Jariwala, Peter and Susanne Armstrong Distinguished Scholar and Associate Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, has been selected … Read More ›

Posted on April 15, 2024
Photo of student Jason Ma
Honors + Awards, Students

Yecheng (Jason) Ma Named Apple Scholar in AIML

Yecheng (Jason) Ma, a fourth-year doctoral student in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been … Read More ›

Posted on April 8, 2024
Penn’s 2024 Goldwater Scholars (clockwise from top left) are third-year students Hayle Kim, Kaitlin Mrksich, Eric Tao and Eric Myzelev. Kim, Myzelev and Tao are in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Mrksich in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Honors + Awards, In the News

Four Penn Undergrads are 2024 Goldwater Scholars

Four University of Pennsylvania undergraduates have received 2024 Goldwater Scholarships, awarded to second- or third-year students planning research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering. Penn’s … Read More ›

Posted on April 1, 2024

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