Futures Fund to Raise $200M for Innovation in Research and Education |
Penn Engineering has launched the Futures Fund Partnership for Innovation, a $200 million philanthropic initiative designed to provide timely, flexible support for leading-edge research and educational advancements over the next five years.
The Futures Fund will provide seed funding to explore bold ideas, with the goal of enabling faculty to accelerate breakthrough research, pursue major externally funded initiatives, support translational work, and develop new research and pedagogical collaborations.
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Surbhi Goel Named 2026 Sloan Research Fellow |
Surbhi Goel, Magerman Term Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science, has been named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow, one of 126 early-career scholars across the United States and Canada selected for this prestigious honor.
Sloan Research Fellowships are among the most competitive and esteemed awards available to rising scientists and scholars and are widely recognized as indicators of scientific creativity, impact and future leadership.
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Solar Solutions for Farmers in The Gambia |
This semester, students from Engineers Without Borders at Penn are designing a solar-powered irrigation system with a battery for FAIR Farms Gambia. In January, undergraduate students Laila Farhan, Chloe Furst, Jack Leitzell and Iris Wong traveled to The Gambia with Lorena Grundy, Practice Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, to understand farmers’ current practices and future hopes.
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Innovation & Impact Podcast: Inventing for the Real World with Penn’s National Academy of Inventors Fellows |
In this episode, Vanessa Chan, Vice Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, sits down with three Penn Engineering faculty members who were recently named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), one of the highest distinctions for academic inventors whose work has made a measurable impact on society.
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Penn researchers build microscopic robot that could one day transform medicine
6ABC News Philadelphia
Smaller than a grain of salt, robots developed by Marc Miskin, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering, are breaking barriers. Watch Now
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Driverless cars’ safety gets boost, new system lets robots see around corners uses radio waves
Interesting Engineering
The latest research from Mingmin Zhao, Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science, could unlock new capabilities for autonomous robots.
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Examining the transformative rise of AI at the 2026 Asimov Debate at the American Museum of Natural History, Christopher Callison-Burch, Professor in Computer and Information Science, joined a panel moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson to explore the benefits, consequences and perils of AI development.
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In 1972, who was the first Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Science at Penn Engineering?
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A. Norman Badler
B. Aravind Joshi
C. Eduardo Glandt
D. Zachary Ives
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🗣️ Last month’s trivia was answered correctly by Chiang Lee (GEN'27) and Anshuman Verma (GEN’28) who answered that the material for ENIAC's wires was chosen so mice wouldn't chew through them.
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