Awards and Grants

Sophia Jackson Awarded Grant for Coral Reef Restoration

Sophia Jackson, a first-year PhD candidate in Dr. Shu Yang’s Lab in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, has recently been awarded the prestigious […]

Call for Seed Proposals – QUIEST

Submission Deadline – December 15, 2024 For additional information, please contact: Marian Bechtel-Prabakaran, Program Coordinator, CPE4H and QUIEST – School of Engineering and Applied Science bmarian (at) seas.upenn.edu

Awards and Grants - News - Students

2024 Department of Materials Science and Engineering Student/Postdoc Awards

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is proud to announce the recipients of this year’s awards which recognize the student’s outstanding achievements in academics, research, and service. Read more.

Liang Feng Receives Experimental Physics Investigator Award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Melissa Pappas – August 21, 2024 Liang Feng, Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and in Electrical and Systems Engineering, is the recipient of a $1.25 million award from the Gordon […]

Awards and Grants - Faculty - News

Atomic Engineer and Research Guide, Dawn Bonnell Elected to American Philosophical Society

Melissa Pappas – August 14, 2024 As the Senior Vice Provost for Research at Penn, Dawn Bonnell, Henry Robinson Towne Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, forges paths that allow Penn Engineers to […]

Shu Yang Team “Vytrina” wins Penn Health-Tech Demo Award

The Shu Yang team, Vytrina, took home the first-place price in the 2024 Penn Health-Tech Demo Award Competition. Teams in the competition pitched their ventures to a panel of industry […]

2024 Belton Award Winners

The 2024 Geoffrey Belton Graduate Fellowship has been awarded to two third-year PhD students, Antonio Martinez and Katie Sun, from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. This award recognizes […]

Six From Penn Elected 2024 AAAS Fellows

Researchers from the School of Arts & Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Perelman School of Medicine, Wharton School, School of Nursing, and Annenberg School for Communication join a […]

Dr. Kyle Vining Earns Hartwell Foundation Award to Study Childhood Leukemia

April 14, 2024 Philadelphia — Every year, thousands of American children are diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer. The disease begins in bone marrow, when […]

Awards and Grants - Faculty - Students

Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award

Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna Professor and Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been awarded the Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award. Presented in conjunction with the Engineering Alumni […]