Innovation & Impact Podcast: Inventing for the Real World with Penn’s National Academy of Inventors Fellows News / March 25, 2026 In this episode of Penn Engineering’s Innovation & Impact podcast, host Vanessa Chan, Vice Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Jonathan and Linda Brassington Practice Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, sits down with three faculty members who were recently named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), one... Read More
2025 President’s Sustainability Prize Recipient: Nirby News / March 23, 2026 The first installment of Penn Today’s 2025 President’s Prize winner roundup highlights a Penn Engineering graduate who is using his President’s Sustainability Prize of $100,000 to reduce fertilizer use on farms. Read More
2025 President’s Innovation Prize Recipient: Sync Labs News / March 20, 2026 This installment of Penn Today’s 2025 President’s Prize winner roundup highlights two recent Penn graduates who are using their 2025 President’s Innovation Prize of $100,000 to address the growing caregiving gap in senior care. 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
Topology Helps Build More Robust Photonic Networks News / March 19, 2026 Topology, the branch of mathematics that says donuts and mugs are identical because they each have one opening, can protect light-based signals in chips. Now, engineers at Penn and the City University of New York have demonstrated that such systems can carry multiple signals, opening the door to scaling such... Read More
Energy Week to Explore Solutions for Transition to Clean Energy News / February 20, 2026 Penn’s sixth Energy Week, taking place Feb. 23-27, features events that highlight cross-disciplinary research at Penn and bring in leading industry experts. Read More
Embracing Uncertainty News / February 19, 2026 Ioana Gidiuta (EE'26), studied neuromotor development in infants in efforts to improve rehabilitation strategies with mentorship from Professor Michelle Johnson (Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation). Read More
CarboWells Wins the 2026 Y-Prize Competition News / February 18, 2026 CarboWells is the recipient of the top award in the 2026 Y-Prize, Penn’s annual innovation competition that challenges students to imagine powerful real-world applications for emerging technologies invented at the University of Pennsylvania. The Y-Prize invites interdisciplinary teams from across Penn to compete by developing compelling business plans built around... Read More
Penn’s ENIAC, the World’s First Electronic Computer, Turns 80 News / February 16, 2026 Housed in the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School Building, ENIAC — the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose computer — launched in 1946. ENIAC’s ability to be reprogrammed to solve a wide range of complex numerical problems was revolutionary and laid the foundation for modern digital systems. 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
