AI Platform Could Speed Peptide Drug Discovery AI, Research and Innovation / July 21, 2026 PeptiVerse combines diverse datasets and machine learning models to predict key properties that help determine whether peptides are worth pursuing as drugs. Read More NATO Explores the Future of Robotics at Penn’s GRASP Lab AI, Events, In the News, Students / July 20, 2026 On June 11, 2026, a NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) delegation visited the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab to learn how Penn Engineering researchers are advancing robotics and autonomous systems with applications spanning disaster response, infrastructure and national security. Together with Marco Di Gabriele, President of the Delaware Valley Chapter... Read More The Impact of Microplastics and How to Limit Exposure In the News, Research and Innovation / July 15, 2026 Microplastics researchers Samantha McBride and Derek Ho of Penn Engineering and Vijay Bhatia of the Philadelphia Water Department discuss how microplastics get into ecosystems and human bodies, offering practical ways to minimize exposure. Sun, sand, and surf are the mainstays of a beach day. But something else now lingers along... Read More Virtual Patients, Real-World Training In the News, Research and Innovation / July 14, 2026 Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, New York University and Penn’s Linguistic Data Consortium have received a two-year, $4 million grant from the Wellcome Trust to develop a scalable, AI-powered platform for training mental health clinicians. STELLAR — short for Steering-Vector Enhanced LLM Agents for Realistic Digital Twins in Mental... Read More
NATO Explores the Future of Robotics at Penn’s GRASP Lab AI, Events, In the News, Students / July 20, 2026 On June 11, 2026, a NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) delegation visited the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab to learn how Penn Engineering researchers are advancing robotics and autonomous systems with applications spanning disaster response, infrastructure and national security. Together with Marco Di Gabriele, President of the Delaware Valley Chapter... Read More
The Impact of Microplastics and How to Limit Exposure In the News, Research and Innovation / July 15, 2026 Microplastics researchers Samantha McBride and Derek Ho of Penn Engineering and Vijay Bhatia of the Philadelphia Water Department discuss how microplastics get into ecosystems and human bodies, offering practical ways to minimize exposure. Sun, sand, and surf are the mainstays of a beach day. But something else now lingers along... Read More
Virtual Patients, Real-World Training In the News, Research and Innovation / July 14, 2026 Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, New York University and Penn’s Linguistic Data Consortium have received a two-year, $4 million grant from the Wellcome Trust to develop a scalable, AI-powered platform for training mental health clinicians. STELLAR — short for Steering-Vector Enhanced LLM Agents for Realistic Digital Twins in Mental... Read More
