The Path Forward: Penn Engineering 2030 News / 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 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
From Soft to Solid: How a Coral Stiffens Its Skeleton on Demand News / October 29, 2025 Touch the branches of Leptogorgia chilensis, a soft coral found along the Pacific coast from California to Chile, and its flexible arms stiffen, like Marvel’s Mr. Fantastic warding off a foe. Now, Penn Engineers have discovered the mechanism underlying this astonishing ability, one that could advance fields as varied as... Read More
Clark Foundation Invests $11 Million in the Next Generation of Penn Engineers News / October 21, 2025 The Clark Foundation deepens the program’s mission, opening new pathways for students to grow as engineers and community leaders. Read More
Two Penn Faculty Elected American Physical Society Fellows News / October 14, 2025 Two Penn faculty have been elected to the 2025 class of American Physical Society (APS) Fellows. Ritesh Agarwal of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Douglas Jerolmack of the School of Arts & Sciences and Penn Engineering are recognized by their peers with the honor. Each year, no more than one half of one percent of the... Read More
Penn Engineers Send Quantum Signals with Standard Internet Protocol News / August 28, 2025 Penn Engineers have brought quantum networking out of the laboratory and onto fiber-optic cables. Read More
What Ever-Growing Incisors Can Teach Us About Genetic Disease News / July 24, 2025 Teeth may seem like static fixtures, but a new collaboration between engineers and clinicians is proving just how dynamic, informative and medically significant our teeth can be. In a recent study, published in the American Chemical Society’s ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, engineers and dentists come together to uncover how... Read More
Shoji Hall Works at the Electrifying Edge Between Materials Science and Chemistry News / July 16, 2025 Shoji Hall, who joined Penn Engineering as an associate professor in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) in January 2025, is focused on the chemistry of transformation: specifically, how electricity can be used to break and form chemical bonds at the interface between solids and liquids, a process called electrocatalysis. His... 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
Penn Engineers First to Train AI at Lightspeed News / April 15, 2025 Penn Engineers have built the first photonic chip capable of training neural networks using light alone, opening the door to ultra-fast, ultra-efficient AI. Read More
