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4/9/2026
The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2026 commencement, recognizing top students from each major and ROTC for academic excellence and leadership. The honor highlights their achievements and contributions to the engineering community as they prepare to graduate.
4/9/2026
Three Penn State graduate students from the College of Engineering were among the 31 graduate students to earn awards at the 2026 Graduate Exhibition, hosted by the J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School on Friday, March 27, on the University Park campus.
4/7/2026
Scott Medina, the William and Wendy Korb Early Career Professor and Dorothy and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Nano Bioengineering; and Heather Paris, associate director of the advising center and career services at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, have been selected to receive the 2026 Penn State Excellence in Advising Award.
4/6/2026
The Penn State College of Engineering will recognize 21 alumni with the 2026 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award and Early Career Award in a ceremony on April 9 in the State Theatre. The event marks the second year in which the two awards will be presented during a combined ceremony.
3/27/2026
Penn State has named the inaugural Innovation to Impact Awards recipients, recognizing faculty, researchers, entrepreneurs and partners whose work exemplifies the University’s commitment to translating research into real-world impact.
3/18/2026
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State has been named as a sub-awardee on four teams selected for funding by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Three of the projects are funded through the ARPA-H
Building Resilient Environments for Air and Total Health (BREATHE) and aim to enhance indoor air quality, and one of the projects is funded through the ARPA-H Personalized Regenerative Immunocompetent Nanotechnology Tissue (PRINT) program and aims to bioprint organs on demand.
3/12/2026
Penn State’s Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) has established new discipline options for its undergraduate degrees to align with the distinct healthcare sectors the program serves.
2/17/2026
The Penn State College of Engineering has welcomed nine new faculty members across multiple departments, including several former postdoctoral scholars who have transitioned into faculty roles. These appointments strengthen the college’s research and teaching mission while reinforcing its commitment to investing in emerging talent.
2/11/2026
Antibiotic treatments are losing effectiveness against a range of common bacterial pathogens, including E. coli, K. pneumoniae, Salmonellaand Acinetobacter, according to a warning issued by the World Health Organizationlast October. For the microbe that gives rise to tuberculosis, a team of researchers from Penn State and The University of Minnesota Medical School found that a potential solution may be chemically changing the structure of a naturally occurring peptide — a building block of proteins — to make it a more stable and effective antimicrobial agent, while reducing potential toxicity to human cells.
2/11/2026
Brain cells are constantly swallowing material from the fluid that surrounds them — signaling molecules, nutrients, even pieces of their own surfaces — in a process known as endocytosis that is essential for learning, memory and basic neural upkeep. Now, new research by Penn State scientists has revealed this vital process may be governed by a previously unknown molecular gatekeeper: a lattice like structure just beneath the surface of brain cells, or neurons, called the membrane associated periodic skeleton or MPS.
2/4/2026
The Leonhard Center for Enhancement of Engineering Education has announced the winners of its inaugural Arts and Engineering Competition. The competition celebrates the creativity and innovation at the intersection of art and engineering.
1/30/2026
Following the first successful cohort of graduate and postdoctoral scholars in the Bayer Crop Science 2025 University Mentoring Program (B4U), Bayer has expanded the initiative at Penn State to include the Bayer Pharmaceuticals 2026 B4U Program. The expansion, which targets those interested in careers in the pharmaceutical industry, reflects Penn State and Bayer's shared commitment to preparing graduate students and postdoctoral researchers for impactful careers at the intersection of academia, industry and innovation.
1/15/2026
Keefe Manning, professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been named editor-in-chief of the Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology Journal (CVET). In this role, Manning will work alongside the deputy editor-in-chief and a team of 50 associate editors to continue the journal's growth and maintain it's reputation.
12/22/2025
Professor Dipanjan Pan, the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Chair Professor in Nanomedicine at Penn State has been named a 2025 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Being named an NAI Fellow is the highest professional distinction currently awarded to inventors in the nation.
12/12/2025
A team at Penn State has now developed a high-speed platform capable of producing synthetic versions of brochosomes at a rate exceeding 100,000 per second, a technological achievement that could lead to next-generation camouflage, sensors and other advancements for humans.
12/12/2025
The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences’ (ICDS) Mid-Scale Seed Grant Program has awarded over $540,000 in total to 24 Penn State faculty members across eight teams representing six colleges and three campuses — University Park, Behrend and Hershey — that will contribute to one or more of the institute’s research hubs or affiliated centers. Thirteen College of Engineering faculty members are involved in a total of six of the eight projects.
12/8/2025
To investigate the interactions between the influenza virus and bacterial microbe infections and how these interactions impact the lungs, a team co-led by researchers at Penn State and Duke University School of Medicine has been awarded a four-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
12/5/2025
The Penn State Learning Factory will host its biannual end-of-semester showcase for engineering students to present their cornerstone and capstone design projects. The in-person showcase will take place from 1:00-3:00 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 11, at the Bryce Jordan Center, while a virtual showcase will take place on Friday, Dec. 12 through Friday, Dec. 19. Both versions of the event are free and open to the public.
12/2/2025
Bacteria may be the next frontier in cancer treatment, according to a team led by researchers at Penn State that devised a new approach of creating bacteria-derived mixtures — or cocktails — to help fight bladder cancer. The researchers explained how the approach, detailed in a paper published today (Dec. 2) in Nature Communications, could be personalized to a patient's specific health needs, while delivering more efficient treatment at a cost comparable to, or lower than, existing cancer treatment options.
12/1/2025
Dan Hayes, Department Head of Biomedical Engineering and Huck Chair in Nanotherapeutics and Regenerative Medicine at Penn State, has been appointed to a four-year term as a standing member of the NIH Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering (MTE) Study Section. This prestigious role recognizes his national leadership in regenerative medicine and involves reviewing cutting-edge research proposals in musculoskeletal tissue engineering.
11/12/2025
Penn State will celebrate its eleventh GivingTuesday on Dec. 2 — and the College of Engineering invites alumni and friends to be a part of the event by making a gift to support engineering student success.
10/31/2025
Since its inception in 2020, the Center for Biodevices has united Penn State’s interdisciplinary research in engineering, science and medicine, accelerating innovation by creating a dynamic community focusing on the advancement of biodevices across the medical field. Recently named the director of the Center for Biodevices, Scott Medina, the William and Wendy Korb Early Career Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is expanding the center’s impact beyond medicine to encompass agricultural and environmental applications.
10/30/2025
Ayushi Bisaria, a second-year Penn State student majoring in data sciences in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and biomedical engineering in the College of Engineering, was recently selected to participate in HackHarvard.
10/17/2025
Five years ago, the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation established the A. James Clark Scholars Program, a comprehensive scholarship and curricular support program for exceptional Penn State engineering undergraduates who demonstrate financial need. Now, with an additional $11 million investment, the Clark Foundation renewed its support for the program, ensuring that 10 new undergraduate engineering majors at Penn State will receive full tuition, fees, room and board, and curricular enrichment support each year in perpetuity.
9/15/2025
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State has selected eight research teams that span 12 departments across six colleges to receive 2025-26 seed grant funding. Three of the eight teams are led by College of Engineering faculty, and an additional three teams have College of Engineering collaborators.
8/21/2025
For most broken bones, bone cells regrow on their own while patients wear a cast or brace to keep the injury steady. But for complex or severe fractures, surgeons may intervene by placing grafts or scaffolds made of biocompatible materials, or by using metal fixation devices to ensure proper bone healing and alignment. Collaborating with orthopedic surgeons, a team of biomedical engineering researchers created CitraBoneQMg, an implantable biodegradable scaffold to support bone regrowth made by combining magnesium and glutamine with citric acid.
8/12/2025
An international team of scientists including team lead Igor Aronson, Huck Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Mathematics at Penn State, have taken a page from nature's playbook to model micro-sized robots that use sound waves to coordinate into large swarms that exhibit intelligent-like behavior.
7/25/2025
Andrés Valdez, assistant research professor in biomedical engineering at the Penn State College of Engineering and TalkingSick team developed the core machine learning pipeline used in their technology, which classifies voice recordings using acoustic biomarkers that are well-established in both speech science and health analytics.
7/22/2025
Penn State Professor Dipanjan Pan and his group developed a proof-of-concept device capable of detecting HMGB1, a protein implicated in endometriosis development and progression, in menstrual blood with 500% more sensitivity than existing laboratory approaches.
7/16/2025
Dreams, and likely nightmares, are experienced universally across humans and animals, but neuroscientists still do not know why. For the first time, an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers will study the underlying mechanisms of nightmares and their relationship with anxiety-related mental health disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
7/9/2025
Kathryn Rex, a biomedical engineering graduate student at Penn State, has been awarded the prestigious 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to support her research on improving outcomes for rotator cuff surgery patients through the study of upper limb biomechanics. Her work, inspired in part by her own shoulder injuries as a collegiate softball player, aims to understand how altered movement patterns may contribute to surgical failure.
7/2/2025
The Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (PSEAS) held its annual awards ceremony on June 20 at the State Theatre, building on its 53-year tradition of honoring excellence among engineering faculty, staff and alumni through the PSEAS awards. The award recipients were recognized in the categories of teaching, research, advising and service.
6/13/2025
Several engineering-focused research projects at Penn State have received GAP Fund support to accelerate the commercialization of innovations in areas such as energy-efficient data centers, advanced manufacturing, electronic waste recycling and smart drilling materials. By bridging the gap between academic discovery and industry adoption, these projects highlight engineering’s critical role in developing scalable solutions to global technological and sustainability challenges.
6/11/2025
A group of researchers, co-led by two faculty from the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, developed a tool to streamline the analysis of existing genome assemblies. They tested their algorithm, called “CloseRead,” on 74 publicly available genome sequences and were able to identify errors in these curated assemblies with more accuracy than other existing verification tools, which are not specialized for particularly complex areas of the genome.
6/4/2025
Ten percent of adolescents and young adults aged 12 to 20, whose brains are still developing, report drinking alcohol, with 90% of their consumption being binge drinking, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Penn State will use a new five-year, $2,900,000 grant to investigate the long-term effects of excess alcohol drinking during adolescence.
