Penn Engineering Awards New Scholarly Professorship News / July 8, 2026 Penn Engineering is pleased to announce the establishment of a new scholarly professorship, the Hibbert Professor, which has been awarded to inaugural recipient Michael J. Mitchell, Professor in Bioengineering. The new professorship was endowed through the generosity of Alister M. Hibbert and Sharon N. Hibbert, both dedicated supporters of Penn... Read More
The 2026 Penn Engineering Student Choice Awards News / April 20, 2026 Penn Engineering is pleased to announce the faculty recipients of the 2026 Student Choice Awards. Each year, the Penn Engineering undergraduate student body thoughtfully selects the recipients of these awards for their dedication in teaching, mentorship and student advocacy. This year’s winners are Vanessa Chan, Sid Deliwala, Samantha McBride, Alejandro... Read More
Sherry Gao Receives NIH MIRA Award to Advance Precision Genome Engineering News / April 2, 2026 From life-saving antibiotics to anticancer drugs, many medicines come from fungi — master chemists with vast untapped potential. Sherry Gao has received an NIH MIRA award to engineer fungal genomes and uncover new bioactive compounds for drug discovery. Read More
A New Swarm AI Project Takes on Safety at Scale News / March 20, 2026 Penn Engineering is leading a global effort to bring AI off the screen and into coordinated teams of physical robots. The project explores how large groups of autonomous agents can cooperate, compete and make decisions safely in complex, real-world environments. Read More
Two Penn Engineering Faculty Elected to National Academy of Engineering News / February 10, 2026 Nader Engheta, H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering, and Karen Winey, Harold Pender Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and in Materials Science and Engineering, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), bringing the total Penn Engineering NAE faculty membership to 16. Read More
Pushing the Boundaries of Autonomous Systems, Antonio Loquercio Receives Mario Gerla Award News / December 3, 2025 On November 6, the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF) held its Annual Event at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C., welcoming H.E. Ambassador Marco Peronaci, along with representatives from major Italian institutions. The gathering highlighted the finalists for the Foundation’s five 2025 Young Investigator Awards... Read More
New Penn Engineering Assistant Professorship Honors Jan Van der Spiegel News / November 26, 2025 Jan Van der Spiegel’s quiet encouragement has shaped the careers of thousands of students, many of whom now hold prominent positions in academia and industry. Now, a group of Penn Engineering alumni are recognizing his lasting influence by helping to establish an assistant professorship in his honor. Read More
Aaron Roth Receives 2025-26 Heilmeier Award News / November 24, 2025 Aaron Roth, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer & Cognitive Science in Computer and Information Science, is the recipient of the 2025-26 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research for “fundamental contributions to formalizing, quantifying and enforcing data privacy and algorithmic fairness.” Read More
Surbhi Goel Named 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow News / November 5, 2025 Surbhi Goel, Magerman Term Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science, has been named a 2025 Schmidt Sciences #AI2050 Early Career Fellow. Read More
Penn BMES Wins National Commendable Achievement Award News / October 30, 2025 The University of Pennsylvania’s chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) has been recognized nationally with the Commendable Achievement Award, the second-highest honor given to student chapters by the national BMES organization. Read More
