School of Engineering & Applied Science

Depression in Black people goes unnoticed by AI models analyzing language in social media posts

Penn analysis found that models developed to detect depression using language in Facebook posts did not work when applied to Black people.

Penn students react to rare East Coast earthquake

An earthquake with the preliminary magnitude of 4.8 centered in New Jersey was felt up and down the East Coast on Friday, including on Penn’s campus.

A group of students is gathered around a Formula-style racecar at an event.

Penn Electric Racing’s latest race car

Designed and produced by the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s student-run club, REV9 will compete in the annual Formula Society of Automotive Engineers Michigan race in June.

Penn researchers are part of a collaborative multidisciplinary effort that’s preparing doglike robots to traverse extraterrestrial landscapes, like those that are analogous to the moon’s surface.

(Image: Courtesy of Sean Grasso)

Teaching doglike robots to walk on the moon’s dusty, icy surface

Researchers from Penn are part of a NASA-funded multidisciplinary collaborative effort that’s teaching robots to navigate the extraterrestrial craters, like the moon and Mars.

Sherry Gao pushes the boundaries of genetic engineering

The Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering aims to make gene editing tools like CRISPR more accurate, and encourage first generation students along the way.

Four Penn undergrads are 2024 Goldwater Scholars

Four Penn third-year students have received 2024 Goldwater Scholarships, awarded to undergraduates planning research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering.

Artificial intelligence of modern technology represented by a brain in laptop.

The hidden geometry of learning: Neural networks think alike

New research by Penn engineers illuminates the inner workings of neural networks, opening the possibility of developing hyper-efficient algorithms that could classify images in a fraction of the time.

Microscopic view of lipid nanoparticles.

Accelerating CAR T cell therapy: Lipid nanoparticles speed up manufacturing

Penn Engineers have developed a novel method for manufacturing CAR T cells using lipid nanoparticles as delivery vehicles.

2023 PIP/PEP winners: Where are they now?

Nearly a year after the winners of the President’s Innovation Prize (PIP) and President’s Engagement Prize (PEP) began their projects, the winners—now alumni—discuss their progress.

Crystalline coffee ring deposited on superhydrophobic post surface.

Interfacial phenomena: Samantha McBride’s untapped resource for water sustainability

At her lab, McBride is developing technology that can change the face of water security using a multidisciplinary range of scientific disciplines, including physics, chemistry, and materials science.

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