Flavia Vitale Awarded Grainger Foundation Frontiers Grant for Bioelectronics in Tissue Engineering Research News / April 16, 2026 Flavia Vitale has received a $30,000 Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grant for collaborative research integrating bioelectronics with engineered tissue. Her work advances precise control of cell signaling to study disease and develop regenerative therapies. Read More
Penn Engineering Futures Fund to Raise $200M for Innovation in Research and Education News / March 27, 2026 New philanthropic partnership will provide flexible funding to accelerate high-impact ideas in health, sustainability, intelligent systems and educational innovation. Read More
Penn Engineering’s Dohyung Kim Named 2025 Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering News / October 15, 2025 Dohyung Kim, Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named a 2025 Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The Fellowship, one of the nation’s most prestigious awards for early-career researchers, provides $875,000 over five years to support pioneering work in... Read More
2025 CAREER Award Recipient: Jina Ko News / March 26, 2025 Jina Ko, Professor in Bioengineering in Penn Engineering and in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine, didn’t initially gravitate toward science as a child. However, her interest in the human mind and health grew over time, leading her to study psychology and psychiatry. It wasn’t until... Read More
Christopher Madl Receives $2M NIH Grant to Investigate Cellular Responses to Mechanical Cues in Tissue Development and Disease Progression News / March 17, 2025 Christopher Madl, Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, has been awarded the prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award for Early Stage Investigators (MIRA) National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to advance his pioneering research on the role of mechanical signals in cellular behavior. The $2 million grant will fund the... Read More
Eco-Friendly Rare Earth Element Separation: A Bioinspired Solution to an Industry Challenge News / February 26, 2025 From smartphones to wind turbines, rare earth elements (REEs) are an essential part of the hardware in many advanced technologies. These elements, which include the lanthanides along with scandium and yttrium, are the backbone of industries that rely on unique properties such as luminescence, magnetism and catalytic ability. In fact,... Read More
Shu Yang and Collaborators Receive NSF Grant for Multidisciplinary Graduate Program across Engineering and Architecture News / December 3, 2024 Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna Professor in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), works to identify how synthetic and biological materials can be engineered to solve diverse climate change problems. One of her research goals is developing efficient heating and cooling technologies for buildings, which finds... Read More
The 2024 NEMO Prize Will Support Research in Self-Administrable DNA Therapy News / November 8, 2024 Imagine a new drug class that could — with one intramuscular injection at home or in a doctor’s office — treat the most common, chronic diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer’s and many types of cancer, and it would be so effective that you’d only need to administer it every six... Read More
Shu Yang to Co-Design Artificial Reef Structures that Help Harness Wave Energy News / October 22, 2024 In the race to power the world with renewable energy, Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna Professor and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), looks to an underutilized resource from the ocean: wave energy. Energy from ocean waves could provide about 10% of the world’s electricity needs, reducing more than 3%... Read More
Rahul Mangharam Receives NSF Award for Trustworthy AI in Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems News / October 16, 2024 Society’s widespread adoption of self-driving cars is just around the corner. But while these vehicles have the potential to provide significant economic and societal benefits by addressing persistent traffic safety, congestion and accessibility issues, AI-powered transportation is also a double-edged sword. Current AI systems that these cars are trained... Read More
