Penn in the News

To find Silicon Valley’s latest hunting ground for engineering talent, start at Stanford University—then drive northeast for about 40 hours. The University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, has become a magnet for recruiters at Google parent Alphabet Inc., Electronic Arts Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., who seek the school’s entrepreneurially minded engineering graduates. Employers and school leaders say the students understand how to translate engineering projects into viable businesses.

Undergraduate Rohan Shah of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is featured as founder of Slice Capital.

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School is quoted about the role of crowdfunding consultants.

Dean Geoffrey Garrett, Eric Bradlow, Adam Grant and MBA student Daniel McAuley of the Wharton School comment on the school offering business analytics.

The University of Maine at Orono was looking to increase its enrollment. And like many public colleges around the country, it especially wanted to bring in more out-of-state students. But before Joel Wincowski came in as interim vice president for enrollment management, in August, Maine was relying on standard solutions from consultants to guide pricing and branding efforts, he says. Mr. Wincowski, a former enrollment manager now working at a firm that places interim higher-education leaders (his previous stints include St.

Free online courses changed the life of one super-smart Mongolian teenager. His name is Battushig Myanganbayar, and four years ago, while he was still a high-school student in Ulan Bator, he took a massive open online course from MIT. It was one of the first they had ever offered, about circuits and electronics, and he was one of about a hundred and forty thousand people to take it. He not only passed, he was one of about three hundred who got a perfect score. He was only 15 years old.

The commercial use of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)–or drones–is on track to permeate nearly every segment of the U.S. economy. The notions of drones delivering groceries, transporting medical supplies, helping farmers and assisting first responders are already moving from fiction to reality. However, as with any fast-moving innovation sector, laws and policies must allow this integration to take place in the safest and most innovative manner possible, and this can only be achieved through greater involvement by higher education institutions.

Garret FitzGerald of the Perelman School of Medicine helps explain why some faces turn red when exercising.

Jeanmarie Perrone of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on teaching people to use opioids sparingly.

Technology has been good to the pursuit of knowledge. Each advance, from cuneiform to computer chip, spurs us to push the limits of knowledge further. The benefits of the newest innovation — the digital — are obvious: more evidence. A lot more.