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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
From left: Postdoctoral researcher Shreya Arya, Ph.D. candidate Miguel Lopez, PIK Professor Rob Ghrist, and Ph.D. candidate Julian Gould.
In the News, Research + Innovation

Rob Ghrist: The Soul of an Artist, the Mind of a Mathematician

Visitors enter the virtual gallery through what appears to be a wormhole before arriving in a room where every wall is covered by psychedelic works of … Read More ›

Posted on May 5, 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, 2025April 25, 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
3D rendering of the tumor microenvironment
In the News, Research + Innovation

Armoring CAR T Cells to Prevent Self-Sabotage and Better Fight Cancer

In Lewis Carrol’s “Through the Looking Glass,” protagonist Alice races with the Red Queen and is unable to gain a lead despite her best efforts. … Read More ›

Posted on April 30, 2025May 1, 2025
In the News

Innovation & Impact Podcast: The Future of AI with Yann LeCun

AI is at the forefront of technological advances and is also reshaping creativity, ownership and societal interactions. In episode 7 of Penn Engineering’s Innovation & … Read More ›

Posted on April 29, 2025April 29, 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, 2025April 27, 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
Aerial view of Penn Engineering's Amy Gutmann Hall and the view of the City of Philadelphia
In the News

Penn to Double Computing Capacity for Faculty

The Penn Advanced Research Computing Center (PARCC), in collaboration with Penn Information Systems & Computing, is soft launching in May with a group of 30 … 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

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