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Science & Technology
University of Pennsylvania Adopts Windows Live @ edu to Deliver Communications Platform to Students
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has partnered with Microsoft to enhance the communications platform it offers to many of its students.
Penn's Weiss Tech House Announces Student Inventors Headed to PennVention Competition Finals
PHILADELPHIA -- Ten teams of student inventors have been selected to present their prototypes of innovative technologies at the University of Pennsylvania's third annual PennVention competition on April 6 at Penn's Weiss Tech House. Finalists will compete for more than $60,000 in cash and prizes and a chance to launch their products to market.
Energy Working Group at Penn Hosts Mini-Symposium on Sustainable Energy
WHO: Energy Working Group at Penn, a multi-disciplinary group of University of Pennsylvania scientists and engineersGeorge Crabtree, senior scientist and director of the materials science division of the Argonne National Laboratory Joanne Milliken, director of the U.S. Energy Department hydrogen program
Penn Students' "2nd Best Idea Slam" Invention Competition Set for Feb. 16
WHO: University of Pennsylvania studentsWHAT: "2nd Best Idea Slam" WHEN: Feb. 16, 20071-2:15 p.m.WHERE: University of Pennsylvania Levine Hall 3340 Walnut St.Weiss Tech House, Room 266
MAGPI Hub at University of Pennsylvania Connects to New Internet2 Network
PHILADELPHIA -- The MAGPI advanced networking hub at the University of Pennsylvania has connected to the new Internet2 Network, providing the research and education community in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware with more than 10 times the capacity of its current network and with new on-demand bandwidth capabilities.
Penn Team Bridges the Digital Divide in Cameroon
Penn Team Bridges the Digital Divide in CameroonJan. 30, 2007PHILADELPHIA -- Some students in Cameroon now have computers thanks to a University of Pennsylvania engineering service organization. A six member team of students, faculty and alumni of CommuniTech spent two and a half weeks during the winter break in Cameroon to establish computer labs.
Penn Innovations Title Here
Penn Innovations Title Here
Researchers provide imagination and creativity. Penn provides the resources and infrastructure. This leads to what President Amy Gutmann calls “perfect impact.”
In hot water: Coral resilience in the face of climate change
In hot water: Coral resilience in the face of climate change
For nearly a decade researchers from Penn have been studying two coral species in Hawaii to better understand their adaptability to the effects of climate change.
A simpler approach for creating quantum materials
A simpler approach for creating quantum materials
New research details how properties found in flat-band physics, similar to twisted bilayer graphene, can be obtained in just a single layer.
In the News
Politico.com
Climate cash pours into election swing region. Will it help Harris?
Danny Cullenward of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that capturing methane to make hydrogen is trading a short-lived pollutant for a permanent pollutant in the form of carbon dioxide.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
As colleges grapple with AI’s pitfalls, U. of Delaware uses technology to transform faculty lectures into interactive study aides
Penn will be the first Ivy League school to launch a new undergraduate degree in artificial intelligence. PIK Professor Duncan Watts and colleagues built the Media Bias Detector, which uses artificial intelligence to scan news articles for tone and bias.
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NPR
Why the U.S. government is spending $7 billion on solar for low-income homes
Sanya Carley of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that the Solar for All program could have an impact far beyond its projected 900,000 low-income households.
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NBC News
More colleges are offering AI degrees—could they give job seekers an edge?
Penn will offer a major in AI starting this fall, with remarks from rising third-year Emma Twitmyer of Wayne, Pennsylvania.
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Technology.org
Shedding light on cellular metabolism to fight disease
Yihui Shen of the School of Engineering and Applied Science talks about her newly established lab where she aims to advance the molecular precision of coherent Raman imaging to allow researchers to understand the minutia of metabolism and open doors to new cancer treatments and therapies.
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NPR
If you get an offer to buy a carbon offset, experts say this is what you should know
Danny Cullenward of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that a carbon offset represents a promise that someone’s money is going toward an action that will reduce or remove planet-heating pollution.
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Forbes
Artificial expectations? Time to get real about AI
Benjamin Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that the rate and depth of adoption for generative AI has been slower than many anticipated.
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Fox 29 (Philadelphia)
Global tech outage: South Jersey Boy Scout troop stuck overseas due to airline impact of outage
Benjamin Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says there need to be contingency plans to cover ongoing vulnerabilities of critical computer infrastructure.
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EdSurge
An education chatbot company collapsed. Where did the student data go?
Rob Nelson of the Provost’s Office says that it’s too soon in the development of generative AI tools to scale up one idea to a whole school district or college campus.
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CNN
A detailed look at children’s brains might show how sex and gender are different, new study says
A study co-authored by Dani S. Bassett of the School of Engineering and Applied Science finds that sex and gender map onto largely distinct parts of the brain.
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