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A first, physical system to learn nonlinear tasks without a traditional computer processor
Contrastive local learning network.

University of Pennsylvania physics and engineering researchers have created a contrastive local learning network, an analog system that is fast, low-power, scalable, and able to learn nonlinear tasks.

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A first, physical system to learn nonlinear tasks without a traditional computer processor

Physics and engineering researchers created a contrastive local learning network that is fast, low-power, and scalable.
From English learners to English teachers
A person at a projector screen teaching English.

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From English learners to English teachers

An initiative from Penn’s Graduate School for Education provides an opportunity for TESOL students to practice their teaching with language learners across the University and around the world.

From Penn GSE

Welcoming the first babies from Penn Fertility in Lancaster
Ashlee Rineer (right) is holding Eleanor who is two years old this month and her partner Lauren (left) is holding Edie.

Ashlee Rineer (right) is holding Eleanor who is two years old this month, and her partner Lauren (left) is holding Edie, who was born in February 2024.

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Welcoming the first babies from Penn Fertility in Lancaster

The Penn Fertility Care practice is the first and only fertility clinic in Lancaster County that has an embryology lab, allowing patients outside of the Philadelphia metro area equal access to the full range of Penn Fertility services and treatments.

From Penn Medicine News

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

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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.

From Penn Medicine News

Will America’s clean car policies persist?
A car getting an emissions test.

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Will America’s clean car policies persist?

Four ambitious clean-car policies are driving a major transformation in the United States. Will they survive legal and political threats?

From Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw named inaugural faculty director of the Arthur Ross Gallery
Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw.

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Professor in the Department of Art History in the School of Arts & Sciences, and inaugural faculty director of the Arthur Ross Gallery.

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Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw named inaugural faculty director of the Arthur Ross Gallery

Shaw, a renowned scholar and teacher of American art who has been at Penn for almost 20 years, assumed the new role effective June 1.
New approach accurately identifies medications most toxic to the liver
Internal view of a diseased liver.

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New approach accurately identifies medications most toxic to the liver

A Penn Medicine-led study developed a novel approach to using health care data to measure rates of liver injury, as the current method of counting cases is not providing an accurate picture.

Frank Otto