20 Breakthroughs of 2025 News / 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
New Video Dataset to Advance AI for Health Care News / December 16, 2025 Penn’s new Observer platform provides anonymized video, audio and clinical data from real medical encounters, giving researchers an unprecedented tool for studying how care happens and training AI medical systems. Read More
Penn and Michigan Create World’s Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots News / December 15, 2025 Smaller than a grain of salt, the robots can navigate their environment, measure temperatures and respond autonomously using tiny onboard computers. Read More
Scientists and U.S. Foundry Achieve 3D Chip Breakthrough to Accelerate AI News / December 11, 2025 Penn, Stanford, CMU, MIT and SkyWater Technology developed a new computer chip that could make future AI systems much faster and more efficient. Read More
How Might AI Shape the Future of Work? News / December 8, 2025 Konrad Kording, a computer scientist, and Ioana Marinescu, an economist, have developed an interactive model to generate meaningful predictions about how AI will affect wages, jobs and the overall economy. Read More
Designers, Dentists and MBAs: Building a New Model for University Innovation News / December 2, 2025 A new Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry collaboration with Wharton and the Weitzman School of Design is turning oral-health breakthroughs into market-ready innovations. Read More
Penn Engineers Turn Toxic Fungus into Anti-Cancer Compound News / June 23, 2025 Professor Sherry Gao's lab is leveraging nature's pharmacy to fight deadly diseases. Read More
A New Era in Genetic Engineering News / May 7, 2025 Researchers can now target multiple genetic diseases in one cell with a single, precise approach, making genetic disease treatment more efficient. Read More
Meet Taylor Caputo, Director of the Engineering Studios @ Venture Lab News / March 28, 2025 Taylor Caputo (IPD’15) helps students bring their visions for new products to life through techniques as varied as sewing and 3D printing. Read More
Borrowing Nature’s Blueprint: How Scientists Replicated Bone Marrow News / March 14, 2025 A team led by Dan Huh, Professor of Bioengineering (BE), have developed a bone marrow-on-a-chip platform to study marrow’s behavior in detail Read More
