Beyond Algorithms: Engineering Judgment in the Age of AI News / March 6, 2026 When Justin “Gus” Hurwitz walks into a classroom, he’s not there to teach rules. He’s there to teach engineers to see the fracture points between technical judgment, legal obligation, and moral responsibility. In his Technology, Ethics & the Legal Landscape course, offered within Penn Engineering’s MSE-AI and MCIT programs, a conversation... Read More
Powering AI From Space, at Scale News / January 28, 2026 Penn Engineers have developed a new design for solar-powered orbital data centers that could realistically scale to meet the growing energy demands of AI. By using a tether-based architecture that passively orients itself toward the sun, the system avoids many of the limitations of other space-based data center concepts. 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
University of Pennsylvania and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Sign a Cooperative AI Advising Agreement News / October 31, 2025 Penn and Governor Josh Shapiro’s Office of Administration are partnering to shape the future of artificial intelligence in Pennsylvania. Through a new agreement, experts from Penn Engineering and across the University will advise the Commonwealth on AI strategy, risk and governance to support responsible innovation. 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
Nanoparticle Blueprints Reveal Path to Smarter Medicines News / October 23, 2025 Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the delivery vehicles of modern medicine, carrying cancer drugs, gene therapies and vaccines into cells. Until recently, many scientists assumed that all LNPs followed more or less the same blueprint, like a fleet of trucks built from the same design Now, in Nature Biotechnology, researchers from... Read More
AI at the Eyelid: Glasses That Track Health Through Your Blinks News / October 1, 2025 Penn researchers have developed a groundbreaking AI-powered device that turns ordinary glasses into a smart, energy-efficient health monitor by watching you blink. Read More
Penn Engineers Unveil Generative AI Model that Designs New Antibiotics News / September 2, 2025 Uniting expertise in AI design and antibiotic discovery, two Penn labs have created a generative model that could redefine drug development. Read More
AI Uncovers New Antibiotics in Ancient Microbes News / August 12, 2025 They’ve survived for billions of years in boiling acid, deep-sea vents and salt flats. Now, some of Earth’s oldest life forms — microbes called Archaea — are offering a new weapon in the fight against one of today’s most urgent health threats: antibiotic resistance.In a new study published in Nature... Read More
Sustainable Computing: Can AI Be Energy Efficient? News / August 8, 2025 As AI advances at breakneck speed, experts at Penn are urgently trying to see if AI can be efficient. Read More
