Penn Engineering 2025 Year in Review |
For Penn Engineering, 2025 was a year of transformative progress: Researchers turned a toxic fungus into a cancer-fighting compound, created materials that harvest water from air, pushed AI to design new antibiotics and accelerate computing, and expanded opportunities for aspiring innovators and students. Explore the discoveries, people and programs that defined this extraordinary year.
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Surbhi Goel Named 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow |
Surbhi Goel, Magerman Term Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Science, has been named a 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow. Together, the 2025 cohort will receive more than $18 million in funding to pursue research that explores AI’s potential to create a healthier, more resilient and more secure world.
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Creating the World’s Smallest Programmable, Autonomous Robots |
Marc Miskin, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering, has created the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots. Barely visible to the naked eye, each robot is smaller than a grain of salt. Operating at the scale of many biological microorganisms, the robots could advance medicine by monitoring individual cells and manufacturing by helping construct microscale devices.
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Penn is testing beanies for NICU babies that block harmful noise and play parents’ messages
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Sonura, a Penn Engineering student startup, is testing beanies whose sonic capabilities could boost language skills and reduce stress in preterm infants. Read More
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Data Centers in Space Aren’t as Wild as They Sound
Scientific American
Benjamin Lee, Professor in Computer and Information Science and in Electrical and Systems Engineering, provides expert insight on exploring alternative locations to build data centers. Read More
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First-year Data Science master's students Prithvi Seshadri and Vamsi Krishna won top honors at the largest Ivy League hackathon for MindPad, an AI-powered study platform transforming passive learning into an interactive experience. Their project earned awards from Google Cloud AI and Amazon Web Services Artificial General Intelligence, as well as prizes including guaranteed internships at Amplitude and credits from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Each year, Penn Engineering presents the George H. Heilmeier award to a faculty member in recognition of research excellence and scholarly impact. Among his many achievements, the late George Heilmeier (EE’58) is known as the inventor of what kind of technology?
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A. Liquid crystal display (LCD)
B. FM radio
C. Transmission control protocol
D. Biomedical imaging
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🗣️ Last month’s trivia was answered correctly by Matthew Chen, who answered that the original name of the School of Engineering and Applied Science was The School of Mines, Arts, and Manufactures.
Email your answers to info@seas.upenn.edu for a chance to be featured in the next newsletter.
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