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
AI Month at Penn News / April 1, 2025 In an era defined by rapid technological transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a central force reshaping nearly every facet of human life—from health care and education to ethics and social justice. As society grapples with the implications of AI-driven systems, understanding their impact on human well-being becomes ever... Read More
Christopher Murray Elected AAAS Fellow News / March 27, 2025 Five University of Pennsylvania professors from the School of Arts & Sciences, Perelman School of Medicine and School of Engineering and Applied Science have been elected 2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. They are among 471 researchers being honored this year across 24 scientific disciplines. AAAS,... Read More
Meet Vanessa Chan: Penn Engineering’s Inaugural Vice Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship News / March 15, 2025 Meet Penn Engineering’s inaugural Vice Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Read More
Kyle Vining Receives $2M Award from NIH to Investigate How Extracellular Mechanics Affect Immune Cells News / February 14, 2025 Kyle Holmberg Vining, DDS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Preventive and Restorative Sciences at Penn Dental Medicine with a joint appointment in Materials Science and Engineering at Penn Engineering, has been awarded a $2 million Maximizing Investigators Research Award for Early-Stage Investigators grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences... Read More
