Penn Bioengineering

Congratulations to Ludwig Zhao, Ph.D. candidate in Bioengineering at Penn Engineering, on receiving the 2025-26 President & Provost’s Honor for Developing New Initiatives in Graduate & Professional Student Life.

The award recognizes graduate and professional students who have driven transformative and lasting improvements to student life at Penn.

Zhao was honored for his extensive leadership and service through multiple roles within GAPSA and on University committees, as well as for his sustained advocacy for research students across Penn.

Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition, Ludwig!

https://upenn-gsc.libcal.com/event/16739199

Penn Bioengineering

Congratulations to Yash Rajpal, who graduated this year with an undergraduate degree in Bioengineering and received a Penn Alumni Student Award of Merit at the 2026 Ivy Day Ceremony.

Ivy Day is one of Penn’s longstanding traditions, honoring graduating students for leadership, service, and lasting contributions to the University community. We are proud to celebrate Yash and all he has accomplished as part of Bioengineering and the Class of 2026.

Read more from Penn Today: https://bit.ly/4uo10jB

Penn Engineering

This Commencement week, we are celebrating a legacy in motion.

As Brianna Leung (BE’26) graduates from the M.S.E. program, she passes forward Enginuity, a platform she helped build to connect real community needs with student engineers ready to solve them.

What started as a challenge, how to find and sustain meaningful projects, became a scalable solution. Enginuity creates a direct path between organizations and students, accelerating impact across Philadelphia.

Now, Andrew Yao (BE’28) will carry this work forward, continuing to grow a platform rooted in collaboration, empathy, and action.

From one generation of Bioengineering students to the next, this is how impact expands.

Read more: https://beblog.seas.upenn.edu/enginuity/

Penn Engineering

Student ideas. Real-world impact.

Penn ADAPT is a student-led community where engineering meets hands-on problem solving. Students are designing everything from systems that help operating rooms track surgical tools in real time to adaptive equipment informed by work with Center For Adapted Sports.

By working across disciplines and applying what they learn beyond the classroom, students are building solutions that support independence, safety and performance.

See how these projects are growing and reaching beyond campus: https://beblog.seas.upenn.edu/penn-adapt

Penn Engineering