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Taking AI to the next level 

Taking AI to the next level 

René Vidal develops AI algorithms that are easier to understand, reliable, and trustworthy, helping make AI safer and more transparent in real-world use.

Topology helps build more robust photonic networks
(From left) Xilin Feng, Liang Feng, and Tianwei Wu in an engineering lab.

(From left) Xilin Feng, Liang Feng, and Tianwei Wu developed a microring array that allows multiple beams of light to travel simultaneously, protected by topology.

(Image: Sylvia Zhang)

Topology helps build more robust photonic networks

Researchers at Penn Engineering draw insights from topology to help drive promising, light-based technological advances in computing and communications.

Ian Scheffler

2 min. read

Researching 17th century Caribbean freedom and empire
Clifton Sorrell III

Clifton E. Sorrell III is a McNeil Center for Early American Studies Advisory Council Fellow.

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Researching 17th century Caribbean freedom and empire

McNeil Center for Early American Studies Advisory Council Fellow Clifton E. Sorrell III pieces together the world that shaped how people of African descent experienced slavery and freedom in the early Caribbean.

From The McNeil Center for Early American Studies

2 min. read

Tracing the evolving law and business of TV
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Tracing the evolving law and business of TV

Reflecting on 100 years of television, Christopher Yoo of Penn Carey Law provides an overview of TV’s shifting legal landscape, and Barbara Kahn of the Wharton School shares how branding has evolved.

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Penn fourth-year chosen as Gaither Junior Fellow

Sonia Banker will be working on Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict and Governance program as a Junior Fellow.

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Penn fourth-year chosen as Gaither Junior Fellow

Sonia Banker will research U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

2 min. read

Weitzman’s Ani Liu on motherhood, microplastics, and her multimedia works on display
Ani Liu standing at a table speaking to students.

Ani Liu is the Carrafiell Assistant Professor (Emerging Design) at the Weitzman School.

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Weitzman’s Ani Liu on motherhood, microplastics, and her multimedia works on display

Weitzman professor of fine arts Ani Liu explores the physiological and emotional transformations in motherhood through her multimedia artworks while teaching students how to conduct fine arts research.

From the Weitzman School of Design

2 min. read

Can AI manage an entire medical decision process?

Can AI manage an entire medical decision process?

A new Wharton study tests whether AI can handle realistic clinical decision-making, a dynamic process that requires managing a patient’s condition under time pressure.

From Knowledge at Wharton

2 min. read

Penn’s newest supercomputer is transforming research
People in hallway surrounded by computing equipment.

The "PARCCitect" team seeing the Betty supercomputer for the first time.

(Image: Ken Chaney)

Penn’s newest supercomputer is transforming research

Penn’s first campus-wide HPC and AI cluster, “Betty,” is expanding access to powerful computing, enabling groundbreaking projects, and fostering new collaborations across disciplines.

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