British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid will visit PennDesign to speak about her work in product design and architecture.
Best known for her dramatic, visionary forms and baroque spatial configurations, Hadid has produced groundbreaking architectural designs during the past two decades, such as the Vitra Fire Station in Weil am Rhein Germany; the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati; the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany; and MAXXI: National Museum of XXI Century Art in Rome. Her work is the subject of numerous monographs and has been exhibited internationally, including a major retrospective in 2006 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York
In 2004 Hadid became the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Prize, the architectural profession's highest honor.
OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Google vary widely in identifying hate speech
Neil Fasching and Yphtach Lelkes of the Annenberg School for Communication have found dramatic differences in how large language models classify hate speech, with especially large variations for language about certain demographic groups, raising concerns about bias and disproportionate harm.
Understanding order to disorder at the atomic scale opens possibilities for next-generation electronic devices
A Penn team has developed insight into the chemical and geometric mechanisms underlying the synthesis of new 2D materials, paving the way for next-gen devices, biomedical applications, and cleaner, quicker energy conversion and storage.
(From left) Kevin B. Mahoney, chief executive officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System; Penn President J. Larry Jameson; Jonathan A. Epstein, dean of the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM); and E. Michael Ostap, senior vice dean and chief scientific officer at PSOM, at the ribbon cutting at 3600 Civic Center Boulevard.
Reimagined Penn Medicine facility set to usher in a bold new era of Immune Health discovery
3600 Civic Center Boulevard will bring together key researchers and technologies in Immune Health, the Colton Center for Autoimmunity, and infectious diseases to drive breakthrough science.
