Engines of Exploration Alumni / January 15, 2026 Kristin Houston (ENG’01), President of the Space Propulsion & Power Systems sector within the Aerojet Rocketdyne segment at L3Harris, shares her story from her time at Penn Engineering to sending spacecraft to the moon and beyond. Read More Physics of Foam Strangely Resembles AI Training Research and Innovation / January 14, 2026 Penn Engineers have discovered that foams — from soap suds to food emulsions — are not static, as long assumed, but instead continuously reorganize themselves in ways that mathematically resemble how modern AI systems learn. Read More The Path Forward: Penn Engineering 2030 Academics, Alumni, Community, Faculty, Research + Innovation, Students / January 13, 2026 The cover story of the 2025-2026 issue of Penn Engineering magazine explores Penn Engineering 2030, the School’s new strategic plan, which charts a bold, collaborative path forward in this new era for higher education. Read More 20 Breakthroughs of 2025 In the News, Research and Innovation / January 12, 2026 From ancient tombs and tiny robots to personalized gene editing and AI weather models, Penn’s 2025 research portfolio showed how curiosity paired with collaboration moves knowledge into impact and stretches across disciplines and continents. Read More
Physics of Foam Strangely Resembles AI Training Research and Innovation / January 14, 2026 Penn Engineers have discovered that foams — from soap suds to food emulsions — are not static, as long assumed, but instead continuously reorganize themselves in ways that mathematically resemble how modern AI systems learn. Read More
The Path Forward: Penn Engineering 2030 Academics, Alumni, Community, Faculty, Research + Innovation, Students / January 13, 2026 The cover story of the 2025-2026 issue of Penn Engineering magazine explores Penn Engineering 2030, the School’s new strategic plan, which charts a bold, collaborative path forward in this new era for higher education. Read More
20 Breakthroughs of 2025 In the News, Research and Innovation / January 12, 2026 From ancient tombs and tiny robots to personalized gene editing and AI weather models, Penn’s 2025 research portfolio showed how curiosity paired with collaboration moves knowledge into impact and stretches across disciplines and continents. Read More
