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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
2024 Penn Engineering Student Choice Award Recipients
Honors + Awards

The 2024 Penn Engineering Student Choice Awards

Penn Engineering is pleased to announce the faculty recipients of the 2024 Student Choice Awards. Each year, the Penn Engineering undergraduate student body thoughtfully selects … Read More ›

Posted on March 28, 2024
Image of an African-American hand holding a cell phone
In the News, Research + Innovation

Depression in Black People Goes Unnoticed by AI Models Analyzing Language in Social Media Posts

Methods researchers developed to detect possible depression through language in social media posts don’t appear to work when applied to posts by Black people on social media, … Read More ›

Posted on March 27, 2024March 26, 2024
Picture of Jing Li, Andre DeHon and Jonathan Smith
Grants, In the News

Penn Engineering Wins $13.5 Million Grant from DARPA to Enhance National Computer Security

The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science has secured a $13.5 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to … Read More ›

Posted on March 25, 2024November 4, 2024
Penn Engineering Online 5-Year Anniversary
Academics, Alumni, Students

Opening Doors and Changing Lives: Five Years of Penn Engineering Online Master’s Degrees

The technological landscape is changing at a rapid pace, faster than ever before, leaving almost no career path untouched. In addition, professionals looking to augment … Read More ›

Posted on March 25, 2024November 4, 2024
"The manifold of models along training trajectories of networks with different configurations (architectures denoted by different colors, optimization algorithms, hyper-parameters, and regularization mechanisms) is effectively low-dimensional."
Research + Innovation

The Hidden Geometry of Learning: Neural Networks Think Alike

Penn Engineers have uncovered an unexpected pattern in how neural networks — the systems leading today’s AI revolution — learn, suggesting an answer to one … Read More ›

Posted on March 19, 2024March 19, 2024
Sherry (Xue) Gao, Presidental Penn Compact Associate Professor in Bioengineering
Research + Innovation

Unlocking Nature’s Secrets: Sherry Gao Pushes the Boundaries of Genetic Engineering

Sherry (Xue) Gao, Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), always knew she had a future in the lab. “I grew … Read More ›

Posted on March 18, 2024April 2, 2024
A CAR T cell, colored red, attacks a cancer cell, colored blue.
Research + Innovation

Accelerating CAR T Cell Therapy: Lipid Nanoparticles Speed Up Manufacturing

For patients with certain types of cancer, CAR T cell therapy has been nothing short of life changing. Developed in part by Carl June, Richard … Read More ›

Posted on March 18, 2024
Portrait of Samantha McBride wearing a dark-colored blazer with her hair down.
Research + Innovation

Interfacial Phenomena: Samantha McBride’s Untapped Resource for Water Sustainability

In a typical year, Reno, Nevada, receives just seven and a half inches of rain. For Samantha McBride, the newest faculty member in Mechanical Engineering … Read More ›

Posted on March 12, 2024March 4, 2024
Joey Wu, a student in the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER), gave a presentation on "Super Plants" as part of the Lightning Talks during Energy Week in 2023. Student is standing at a podium giving a lecture.(Image: Courtesy of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy)
Events, Students

Energy Week to Highlight Research Across Disciplines at Penn

  Energy Week returns to the University of Pennsylvania this year March 11-15, an opportunity to learn about energy-transition research and to hear from Penn scientists, … Read More ›

Posted on March 11, 2024

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