César de la Fuente, Jason Altschuler Named Sloan Research Fellows News / February 18, 2025 The University of Pennsylvania’s Jason Altschuler, César de la Fuente, Liang Wu, and Anderson Ye Zhang have each been selected to receive a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship, which recognizes early-career scientists in North America. They are among 126 Fellows, chosen from more than 1,000 nominees, who will receive the two-year,... Read More
Cherie Kagan Receives 2024-25 Heilmeier Award News / December 12, 2024 Cherie Kagan, Stephen J. Angello Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE), has been named the recipient of the 2024-25 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research “for fundamental contributions to colloidal nanocrystal materials and their use in electronic and optical devices.” The Heilmeier Award honors a Penn... Read More
Christopher Murray Named 2024 NAI Fellow News / December 11, 2024 Christopher B. Murray, Richard Perry University Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and in Chemistry, has been elected to the 2024 class of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellows, one of the highest honors bestowed upon academic inventors. The NAI Fellow designation recognizes individuals whose groundbreaking contributions have significantly advanced... 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
Inaugural CPE4H Symposium Explores Engineering’s Role in Precision Medicine News / November 27, 2024 Novel molecular and cellular therapies are being discovered and optimized through interdisciplinary approaches across medicine and engineering. Thanks to this concerted effort, technologies such as mRNA, wearable devices and tissue regeneration have gone from idea to reality, and the University of Pennsylvania, specifically the Center for Precision Engineering for Health,... Read More
Penn Engineering Dean Honored with John Scott Award for Robotics Advances News / November 22, 2024 Vijay Kumar, Professor and Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering recently earned a John Scott Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious in the United States. Read More
Penn Fourth-Year Om Gandhi is a 2025 Rhodes Scholar News / November 18, 2024 University of Pennsylvania fourth-year Om Gandhi, from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford in England. The Rhodes, established in 1902, is highly competitive and one of the most prestigious scholarships in the world. The scholarship funds tuition and a living stipend for two or three... Read More
AI Meets Medicine: Penn Secures ARPA-H Funding for AI in Breast Cancer Care and More News / October 14, 2024 Researchers at Penn Engineering and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) have received a $7-million, four-year award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to develop artificial intelligence (AI) systems that support personalized medical treatment. The project, which will be led by Rajeev Alur,... Read More
