Eric Schelter, Hirschmann-Makineni Professor of Chemistry, has received a 2026 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award from the U.S. Department of Energy for his “fundamental chemical studies of energy-critical metals leading to new methods for their selective and sustainable separations.” The Lawrence Award honors U.S. scientists and engineers, at mid-career, for exceptional contributions in research and development supporting the Department of Energy and its mission to advance the national, economic and energy security of the United States.

An article in Penn Today highlights The Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture (IoT4Ag)— a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center led by Penn that aims to build sensing, communication, and response systems for agriculture. The Director of IoT4Ag is Vagelos Institute faculty member Cherie Kagan, who is the Stephen J.

Vagelos Institute faculty members Deep Jariwala and Rob Riggleman have been named 2026 Fellows of the American Physics Society, an honor recognizing exceptional contributions to physics and service to the physics community.