From left: Bhuvnesh Jain, Marylyn Ritchie, Dawn Bonnell, René Vidal, Duncan Watts, and Lynn Wu.
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AI Across Disciplines event highlights the power of ‘breadth and connectivity’ at universities
At a cross-disciplinary gathering at Amy Gutmann Hall, the Penn community celebrated the launch of the Penn AI Initiative with a panel discussing AI research at Penn—and writ large.
Eileen Feng, a graduate student in Integrated Product Design.
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Combining AI and artmaking for youth well-being
Through a community-led partnership project, graduate student Eileen Feng and an interdisciplinary, cross-school team are working with local youth to tailor an AI-supported platform for healing through creative arts.
Peter Cook, a descendant of Julian Abele, and Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson next to a newly unveiled framed portrait of Julian Abele that decorates Eisenlohr Hall.
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Celebrating the architectural legacy of Penn’s first Black architecture graduate
At a gathering at Eisenlohr Hall, a portrait of renowned architect Julian Abele and a series of his paintings were unveiled, formally recognizing his design contributions to one of campus’ iconic structures.
Takeaways to understand ‘indirect costs’ and NIH funding
Penn’s Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Mark Dingfield and Senior Associate Vice Provost and Senior Associate Vice President for Research Missy Peloso explain facilities and administrative (‘indirect’) costs and the implications of potential NIH funding cuts.
Rachel Liu, a first-year doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education.
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‘JeepyTA’ has entered the chat
At Penn’s Graduate School of Education, the Penn Center for Learning Analytics is piloting an AI teaching assistant that fields students’ syllabus questions, generates assignment feedback, and eases the stress of instructors’ and TAs’ emailing schedules.
Celebrating five years of excellence at VinUniversity
Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson visited VinUni in Hanoi, Vietnam, to commemorate the university’s fifth anniversary and Penn’s seventh year of allyship. He delivered a lecture about how excellent universities advance society.
University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees Chair Ramanan Raghavendran.
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A conversation with Board Chair Ramanan Raghavendran
One year since becoming the Chair of the Board of Trustees, Raghavendran discusses Penn’s advancements from the past year, the purpose of a values statement, and Penn’s strengths as a cultivator of American leadership.
Aaron Levy, center left, leads a Literature of Care seminar inside the gallery of Public Trust.
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Through Literature of Care course, a curriculum of compassion
Literature of Care, a course offered every fall in the School of Arts & Sciences, explores medical humanities and the role storytelling plays in patient care.
A conversation with Interim President J. Larry Jameson
Interim President Jameson discusses the many ways Penn is moving forward, from the opening of state-of-the-art facilities to new initiatives that advance In Principle and Practice.
