Gabriel Unger Wins Penn Prize And Outstanding TA Award for Excellence in Teaching

Congratulations to Gabe for receiving the 2025 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students, a university-wide honor, as well as the Outstanding Teaching Assistant (TA) Award in Mechanical Engineering for the Fall 2024 semester. Both awards were in recognition of his work in MEAM 2100: Statics and Strength of Materials, a required core course for all sophomore Mechanical Engineering students.

Read more about Gabe’s experience teaching here.

Exciting News from the Penn Y-Prize!

This year’s Penn Y-Prize competition featured novel technologies developed by members of the GRASP Lab, specifically the Sung Lab and ModLab.

We are thrilled to announce that the winner of this year’s Penn Y-Prize was Stentix! Their project, which utilized the MORF Technology developed in the Sung Lab, proposed a stent that can be adjusted noninvasively.

Congratulations to the entire Stentix team for your hard work and dedication!

Gabriel Unger’s paper accepted to ICRA 2025!

Our recently submitted paper “MORF: Magnetic Origami Reprogamming and Folding System for Repeatably Reconfigurable Structures with Fold Angle Control” has been accepted for publication at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (2025 ICRA). Congratulations to the authors, Gabriel Unger, Sridhar Shenoy, Tianyu Li, Nadia Figueroa, and Cynthia Sung, for this exciting new research!