Penn Startup Showcase 2025 Recap News / November 24, 2025 Penn Engineering innovators took center stage at the inaugural Penn Startup Showcase, highlighting breakthrough ventures in robotics, AI and health care. Read More
Penn Nursing and Engineering Students Tackle Health Care Challenges at Inaugural Datathon News / September 29, 2025 A $10,000 prize-winning idea topped the competition at the first Smarter Care Datathon, organized by Penn Nursing and Penn Engineering. Team 6 CARE: A Critical-care Acuity & Resource Evaluation Metric, developed by students, earned the top award by creating a solution to better evaluate patient acuity and resource needs. Nearly seventy students from... Read More
74 Brilliant Minds, One Symposium: NAE Frontiers of Engineering Celebrates 30 Years at Penn News / September 26, 2025 The 30th Anniversary Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (FOE), hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, took place from September 14 through 17, 2025 at the Singh Center for Nanotechnology. Marking the first time the event came to Philadelphia, this flagship National Academy of Engineering (NAE) event was co-chaired by... Read More
Advancing the Quantum Frontier: Highlights from Penn FoQuS 2025 News / May 15, 2025 The second annual Penn Forum on Quantum Systems (Penn FoQuS 2025), an event organized by the Penn Center for Quantum Information, Engineering, Science and Technology (QUIEST), welcomed thought leaders from academia, government and industry research labs, joining over 100 students, 30 faculty and 13 scientists and quantum industry professionals on... Read More
A Celebration of Creativity and Innovation for Social Good News / May 13, 2025 At an annual reception for the 2025 winners of the President’s Innovation, Engagement, and Sustainability Prizes, held in early May, Prize winners, their families and mentors, and senior leadership gathered to celebrate the soon-to-be-graduates and their contributions toward addressing great challenges of our time. The winners of the prizes receive $100,000... Read More
Designing the Future: Penn Engineering’s 2025 Senior Design Project Competition News / May 12, 2025 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 practicing optometrists. Billions of tires expire, leaching toxic chemicals into the food chain. And as AI systems grow larger, they require more and more power... Read More
Robots in the Reading Room: GRASP Lab Brings Hands-On STEM to Roxborough Library News / April 14, 2025 From left to right: Wanying Long, Eric Sigg, Victoria Edwards, and Dr. Thales C. Silva shared with the local community all the steps necessary for building an mASV. (Credit: Ian Scheffler) In 2012, Katherine Kuchenbecher, then a faculty member at Penn Engineering in the General Robotics, Automation and Sensing (GRASP)... Read More
Modeling Careers in STEM News / April 4, 2025 Whether it’s about the importance of forming connections and finding mentors, resilience in the face of failure, or strategies for work-life balance, University of Pennsylvania scientists have a lot of wisdom to offer, many insights gleaned from advancing through graduate school and their careers. Students recently had the opportunity to learn... Read More
AI Month at Penn News / April 1, 2025 In an era defined by rapid technological transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a central force reshaping nearly every facet of human life—from health care and education to ethics and social justice. As society grapples with the implications of AI-driven systems, understanding their impact on human well-being becomes ever... Read More
Fifth Energy Week to Bring Penn Community Together Around Solutions News / February 6, 2025 Penn is holding its fifth Energy Week from Feb. 10-14, with a lineup of daily events for faculty, staff, and students to engage in the latest solutions-focused work happening at Penn and in government and industry. “We are in a moment with a lot of shifting energy and climate policy... Read More
