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How you can support your people with generative AI

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School recommends using AI for at least 10 hours to understand what it can do and how it can help.

Inspired by the Olympics? It’s not too late to ignite your own fitness journey

Katy Milkman of the Wharton School says that repetition coupled with high motivation makes it much more likely to create a behavior change that lasts.

The higher unemployment rate may not be a bad thing this time

Zeke Hernandez of the Wharton School says that immigration has helped ease worker shortages, which is different from bidding down wages by competing against U.S. workers.

A small racecar in a makeshift track in Penn Engineering with student spectators.

Racing to the future

Rahul Mangharam’s scaled-down, self-driving race cars are revamping engineering education at Penn.

Can AI help your company innovate? It depends

In a co-authored article, Lynn Wu of the Wharton School explains how companies can use generative AI tools to successfully innovate.

Are there jobs that AI can’t replace?

Christian Terwiesch of the Wharton School advocates using ChatGPT to generate ideas.

Immigrants aren’t victims or villains. This Wharton professor says we’re missing the real story

In his new book, “The Truth About Immigration,” Exequiel (Zeke) Hernandez of the Wharton School says that immigrants have unexpected and overwhelmingly positive effects on the communities they join.

Two nurses guiding a prone patient into a proton imaging machine.

The power of protons

Penn Medicine has treated more than 10,000 cancer patients at three proton therapy centers across the region, including the largest and busiest center in the world—while also leading the way in research to expand the healing potential of these positive particles.

Philadelphia Orchestra bassist Duane Rosengard; Peter Noël, director of CT Research at the Perelman School of Medicine; luthier Zachary S. Martin; Leening Liu, a Ph.D. student in Noël’s Laboratory of Advanced Computed Tomography Imaging; and Mark Kindig.

How to learn about a world-class double bass? Give it a CT

Radiology experts at Penn Medicine applied imaging technology to centuries-old instruments to better understand how to care for masterworks built between the 17th and 19th centuries, and provide insights into building new ones.

Group photo at Summer Innovation Institute.

Leading on health equity through innovative design

Penn Nursing held its second Summer Innovation Institute, with a focus on collaborative design and co-creation for health equity.

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