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Studying decision-making in stressful situations
Gideon Nave’s educational background is in two sub-fields of electrical engineering: signal processing and machine learning. Both use statistical tools to make inferences and extract signals from noise, such as developing algorithms that recognize speech in a loud, lively cocktail party.
Penn's Christian Association
Penn's Christian Association
The Christian Association (CA) at Penn offers a community of hospitality, service and advocacy, and faith exploration for students, faculty, and staff. Located at 118 S. 37th St., the CA House is beautiful and welcoming, and serves as a home away from home for many. The space is open to everyone, regardless of religious affiliation, orientation, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, race, or gender. The CA is celebrating its 125th anniversary this academic year.
Daedalus Quartet brings special performance to Penn Museum
The internationally renowned Daedalus Quartet has made Penn its home base since 2006.
Penn program helps libraries assist vulnerable populations
Will Torrence, a librarian at the South Philadelphia branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, offers far more than books to the local community. He fields questions all day long, a third of which are about health issues.
For the Record: Pennsylvania Punch Bowl
The Pennsylvania Punch Bowl has been basking in satirical humor almost every year since its founding in 1899.
SEPTA Travel Center opens at Penn Bookstore
Every day, thousands of people use SEPTA's trains, trolleys, and buses to travel to and from Penn’s campus for work or school.
Addressing the trans community with dignity and respect
Addressing these particular issues, where people—whether transgender, gender non-conforming, or non-cisgender—aren’t honored for being true to themselves, are at the root of Penn’s LGBT Center’s ongoing “Pronouns Matter” campaign, which started in October during LGBT History Month.
Penn holiday drives benefit families, the homeless, and refugees
With the winter holidays just around the corner, there’s no better time to give. Across Penn’s campus, there are endless ways to get involved.
Thriving program makes Penn a Quechua language hub
With nearly 8 million speakers throughout the Andes, Quechua is the most spoken indigenous language in the Americas. In the world, that number rises, making it as prevalent as Swedish or Hebrew. Yet, it’s unrecognizable to most people, and even declared by UNESCO as an endangered language.
Constructing Larry Robbins House for Penn’s flourishing M&T Program
The home of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology, also known as Penn’s M&T Program, is getting a major facelift.