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Engineering Sophomore at Penn Researches Deception and Humor in Business
As students, engineers-to-be rarely get a chance to examine topics in business psychology, but Mark Liam Murphy, a sophomore from Wilmington, N.C., spent his first summer on campus at the University of Pennsylvania doing just that.
PennApps Brings World's Largest Collegiate Hackathon to Wells Fargo Center Sept. 4-6
Two thousand of the world’s top young coders will descend on the Wells Fargo Center from Friday, September 4 to Sunday September 6, battling for over $30,000 in prizes at the world’s largest collegiate hackathon: PennApps.
Penn Helps Develop Algorithm Aimed at Combating Science’s Reproducibility Problem
Big data sets are important tools of modern science. Mining for correlations between millions of pieces of information can reveal vital relationships or predict future outcomes, such as risk factors for a disease or structures of new chemical compounds.
Three Penn Undergraduate Summer Associates Help to Affect Effective Philanthropy
This summer, three undergraduate students at the University of Pennsylvania are studying the best ways to research and promote effective charitable giving.
Recent Penn Alum Finds His Calling to Help Others
What began as preparations for a class service trip to China has turned into a possible career path for Nikhil Rajapuram, a May graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
Penn Researchers Discover New Chiral Property of Silicon, With Photonic Applications
By encoding information in photons via their spin, “photonic” computers could be orders of magnitude faster and efficient than their current-day counterparts. Likewise, encoding information in the spin of electrons, rather than just their quantity, could make “spintronic” computers with similar advantages.
Researchers at Penn Develop Scar-like Culture Systems to Understand and Treat Fibrosis
A scar might be a reminder of an accident or surgery, but the fibrous tissue that makes up a scar also forms after a heart attack and arises in solid tumors as well as in chronic diseases such as liver cirrhosis and muscular dystrophy. Implanted medical devices and materials are similarly surrounded by fibrous capsules that impede their function.
Penn Science Café Presents ‘Your Brain: An Ever-changing Network’
WHO: Danielle BassettSkirkanich Assistant Professor of InnovationDepartment of BioengineeringDepartment of Electrical and Systems EngineeringSchool of Engineering and Applied Science
New Penn Center Will Investigate the Physics of Cancer Via $10M NIH Grant
Investigators at a new University of Pennsylvania research center will focus on key physical principles that underpin cancer’s development and growth.
First Place Finish for Penn’s Electric Race Car
Penn Electric Racing has taken home top honors at an international competition.
In the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
New Penn AI master’s program aims to prep students for ‘jobs that we can’t yet imagine’
Chris Callison-Burch of the School of Engineering and Applied Science discusses Penn’s new online master’s program in artificial intelligence.
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NBC Philadelphia
Penn Engineering announces first Ivy League Master’s degree in AI
The School of Engineering and Applied Science has announced the first graduate program in artificial intelligence among Ivy League universities, led by Chris Callison-Burch.
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Technical.ly Philly
Penn Engineering rolls out an online master’s degree in AI, first in Ivy League
The School of Engineering and Applied Science has announced the first graduate program in artificial intelligence among Ivy League universities, led by Chris Callison-Burch.
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Newsweek
Man does DNA test, not prepared for what comes back ‘unusually high’
César de la Fuente of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Perelman School of Medicine says that Neanderthal DNA provides insights into human evolution, population dynamics, and genetic adaptations, including correlations with traits such as immunity and susceptibility to diseases.
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Technical.ly Philly
Penn professor on gen AI’s rapacious use of energy: ‘One of the defining challenges of my career’
Benjamin Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that hardware and infrastructure costs are growing at high rates for generative AI.
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