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Penn researchers found that raindrops on dry sand form rolling “sandballs” that can increase erosion up to 10x. These self-organize into “peanut” and “donut” shapes. The findings refine models of landscape change and soil loss. https://bit.ly/3LVcOcd
11.02.2026 14:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Penn Engineering launches the Michael and Jennifer Ternoey Glassman Penn Scholars Program (GPS), a new pre-college STEM initiative for rising high school seniors in the School District of Philadelphia, offering mentorship, hands-on learning and college prep.
https://bit.ly/3ZU11hi
Sarah Rottenberg applied human-centered design to support three Penn Forward working groups shaping ideas for Penn’s next decade. As executive director of the Integrated Product Design program, she helped bring design thinking into strategic university planning.
https://bit.ly/4jKnira
Robert Carpick (@meam-penn.bsky.social) joins Science Friday host Ira Flatow to explain why ice is slippery. He describes how ice structure, surface water molecules & temperature interact to reduce friction.
https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/why-is-ice-slippery/
To mark the 10th anniversary of Nature Microbiology, Penn Engineering’s @delafuentelab.bsky.social shares his vision for the future of microbiology, where machine intelligence accelerates discovery while human creativity leads the science.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02218-x
Real or artificial tree? Lorena Grundy weighs in on the holiday debate with CBS News Chicago to share insight into this familiar holiday question.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/a-real-christmas-tree-or-an-artificial-one-the-debate/
2025 was a year of transformative progress for Penn Engineering, with breakthroughs spanning cancer research, water-harvesting materials, and AI-powered discovery.
https://www.seas.upenn.edu/2025-year-in-review/
Penn Engineering marked major achievements at the PCI Celebration of Innovation event, with Liang Feng (pictured, right) named Emerging Inventor of the Year and faculty earning 26 patents across AI, energy, health, and semiconductor tech.
11.12.2025 16:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on Tuesday, 12/9 at 12pm to see Deans' Distinguished Visiting Professor, Eva Dyer of @pennengineering.bsky.social, present her seminar at the Computational Neuroscience Initiative! #PSOMDDVP tinyurl.com/2ewyww87
02.12.2025 19:16 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Computer scientist Konrad Kording and economist Ioana Marinescu have developed an interactive model that incorporates assumptions from both their fields to predict how AI will affect wages, jobs, and the overall economy. @upenn.edu @pennengineering.bsky.social
05.12.2025 19:19 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
For CIS Prof. Chris Callison-Burch, today’s AI boom reflects 25 years of work across symbolic AI, statistical ML and generative models. Now, as director of Penn Engineering’s MSE-AI Online, he’s preparing the next generation of AI leaders.
https://bit.ly/43J9A16
Group photo taken after the symposium
That's a wrap on the 16th Grad Student Symposium in CBE@Penn [11.14.2025]. Great day of talks, posters, and networking among students, faculty, industry representatives and colleagues. Thanks to Lonza, Axalta and Arkema for generous sponsorship! @cbe-penn.bsky.social @pennengineering.bsky.social
18.11.2025 11:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Penn Engineering and Ashoka University have signed a new MoU to deepen collaboration in research and graduate study, including a 4+1 pathway for Ashoka undergraduates to pursue an accelerated master’s degree at Penn Engineering.
https://bit.ly/3K0T2L5
University of Pennsylvania and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania sign a cooperative AI advising agreement
@governor.pa.gov @pennengineering.bsky.social
Vanessa Chan, Vice Dean for Innovation at Penn Engineering, sat down for a conversation with Mike Walter of CGTN-America, about the importance of affordable, clean energy across all sectors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdM5TEGDP70
Ralph Teetor lost his sight at six but used his heightened senses and passion for engineering to change how the world drives. From the piston ring to cruise control, his inventions reshaped the auto industry and influence today’s vehicle technology.
https://bit.ly/4oVItYG
A new “tumor-on-a-chip” from Penn Engineering recreates the environment of solid tumors, revealing why CAR T-cell therapy often struggles.
https://bit.ly/49l4lIh
Penn Engineers have developed a mathematical “Rosetta Stone” that translates microscopic movements into large-scale behaviors, from protein folding to crystal growth, and used it to solve a 40-year-old problem.
https://blog.seas.upenn.edu/a-rosetta-stone-for-molecular-systems/
Penn Engineers are advancing photonics with energy-efficient displays and light-powered computing. Innovations include voltage-tunable optical resonators for sharper images and a reconfigurable photonic processor for adaptable computation.
https://bit.ly/43nXnOU
Penn Engineering's Derek Ho is using machine learning and fluorescence imaging to detect microplastics in Cobbs Creek. The team hopes this data will encourage city and state agencies to restore the creek. @meam-penn.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/46OeKL7
In August, White Sands National Park in New Mexico provided a setting for engineers to test robots designed to map hazards and climb dunes on the Moon or Mars. The TRUSSES team is now set to demonstrate their system at NASA's Ames Research Center in California.
https://bit.ly/4nxphQN
To combat extreme heat in Philadelphia this summer, Penn Engineers Nafisa Bangura, Angelica Dadda and Dylan York evaluated CoolSeal, a reflective pavement coating to mitigate urban heat.
https://bit.ly/4nrnht4
A new review from the lab of @ravi-radhak.bsky.social connects how a tumor's physical properties and the tiny messengers it releases, called extracellular vesicles (EVs), could shape the future of cancer treatment and therapies.
blog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-enginee...
Penn's new home for energy science, the Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology (VLEST), has earned a LEED Platinum certificate--the highest standard in sustainable building design. Learn more about VLEST: https://bit.ly/3JywOwM @pennengineering.bsky.social @vagelosenergy.bsky.social
The C4R25 Conference recently brought together a global community of researchers, students and practitioners for a hands-on experience in scientific rigor. The three-day event on campus focused on the intersection of research and AI, featuring panel discussions and workshops.
17.09.2025 14:33 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Perseverance rover found rock samples with biosignatures, hinting at ancient life on Mars.
Douglas Jerolmack (@meam-penn.bsky.social) told @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy that minerals and hexagonal mud-cracks suggest long-term water presence and ancient microbial life.
www.cbsnews.com/video/the-si...
Congratulations to Sherry Gao, Penn Compact Associate Professor in CBE and in BE, on receiving the Food, Pharmaceutical, and Bioengineering Division Early Career Award in Chemical Engineering from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
10.09.2025 14:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lung fibrosis, a silent disease, is notoriously difficult to diagnose and treat. Penn Engineering researchers exposed lung tissue to blue light, which reveals a mechanical problem with biological consequences.
https://bit.ly/45U6Zmj
Vanessa Chan, Penn Engineering's Vice Dean for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, discusses her journey through academia and industry with Technical.ly Philly in their "How I Got Here" series. Read the full article today.
https://technical.ly/workforce/penn-engineering-vanessa-chan-how-i-got-here/
A @pennmatsci.bsky.social team has brought quantum networking out of the laboratory and onto commercial fiber-optic cables. Utilizing Verizon's campus network, the novel chip uses the same Internet Protocol as today's web.
https://bit.ly/4g4w15S
