Understanding the Cellular Mechanisms Driving Solid Tumors’ Robust Defense System In a joint research project involving experts from different fields, researchers Michael Mitchell, Wei Guo, and Drew Weissman discovered that solid tumors can create a barrier that prevents drugs from reaching them, similar to a protective force field. Read More
Missing the Microbiome: Uncovering New Antibiotics Inside the Human Gut Penn Engineering and Stanford researchers leveraged AI to discover dozens of potential new antibiotics in the human gut microbiome. Read More
Empowering Future Engineers: Lyle Brunhofer and the Impact of Senior Design Lyle Brunhofer (EAS’14, GEng’14) advises companies on digital transformations, applying the skills he learned at Penn Engineering to modernize firms’ understanding of customers in industries as diverse as pharmaceuticals and consumer products. Read More
Faculty Spotlight: Chinedum Osuji, Environmental Innovations Initiative In a Q&A with EII, Osuji describes his research and its connections to sustainability and the environment, explores how industry and… Read More
Mapping Media Bias: How AI Powers the Computational Social Science Lab’s Media Bias Detector The CSSLab’s Media Bias Detector empowers users to analyze bias in major news outlets, not just based on their political leaning, but on the… Read More
Looking to AI to Solve Antibiotic Resistance Antibiotics face a looming efficacy concern as the microbes these drugs target are acquiring resistance stemming from years of treatment… Read More
June 16, 2025 What is an NPU? A Penn Expert Explains Increasingly, neural processing units (NPUs) are making their way into consumer electronics: laptops, high-end tablets, phones, and more. But what do they do, and why are they suddenly showing up? Read the Article
June 10, 2025 Investing in Innovation Donors like Raj and Neera Singh are advancing AI education at Penn through philanthropy. Read the Article
May 22, 2025 Lifesaving and More Cost-Effective Weather Predictions Paris Perdikaris, associate professor at Penn Engineering has developed Aurora, a foundation AI model that forecasts extreme weather and environmental events—faster and cheaper than traditional systems. Read the Article
