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AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellows Collaborate Across Disciplines

As members of the inaugural AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, Brynn Sherman and Kieran Murphy are already reaping the rewards of cross discipline collaboration—testing new … Read More ›

Posted on June 10, 2025June 10, 2025
Honors + Awards, In the News, Students

Penn Engineering Students Graduate as Benjamin Franklin Scholars

The Benjamin Franklin Scholars (BFS) program at the University of Pennsylvania is an interdisciplinary initiative designed for students across all four undergraduate schools: Arts & … Read More ›

Posted on June 9, 2025June 6, 2025
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 male student Ben Nachod ('26), a Bioengineering major, sitting down on a chair working in a lab.
Research + Innovation, Students

Exploring My Autoimmune Research Interests

Ben Nachod (’26), a Bioengineering major, conducted research with Dr. Michael Mitchell (Department of Bioengineering) on the use of lipid nanoparticles to treat autoimmune diseases. … Read More ›

Posted on May 16, 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, 2025June 2, 2025
Academics, Students

Empowering Futures: How PRECISE Center’s Mentorship with Google is Transforming Academic Careers and Innovation

“It takes a village to raise a child,” the old saying goes. In the world of academic research, the same principle holds true. At the … Read More ›

Posted on May 2, 2025June 2, 2025
A banner reading "AI Month @ Penn" hangs over Smith Walk.
Academics, Alumni, Events, Research + Innovation, Students

Scaling Up: How AI Month 2025 Brought Big Ideas to Life at Penn Engineering

In the world of AI, experts frequently discuss so-called “scaling laws,” which describe how large language models (LLMs) grow exponentially more powerful as their training … Read More ›

Posted on April 28, 2025June 2, 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
Students

How MLR@Penn Supports Student AI Researchers

Last year, researchers published over 50,000 papers on machine learning — a nearly 50% jump from the previous year. “Figuring out what’s worth reading is … Read More ›

Posted on April 17, 2025April 17, 2025

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