Tech
Penn Hyperloop wins Rookie of the Year award at Elon Musk’s The Boring Company competition finals
The club competed in The Boring Company's global university competition in late March, which involved digging a 30-meter-long, half-meter-wide tunnel.
New Wharton AI concentration and major set to shift how business leaders navigate digital economy
Designed to address the growing demand for AI fluency in business leadership, the new track is expected to shape the way future executives, including Chief Financial Officers, approach emerging technologies.
Wharton professor cited in Accenture report on organizational structures in age of generative AI
The report introduced AI as representing a "fundamentally different way of working" and explored questions how organizations adapt workflows, prepare workers, and create new approaches to organization design.
Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative hosts second annual Wharton-AI-Hackathon
This year's hackathon was titled “Build Your AI for Education Tool & Solve the Prompt Hacking Challenge" and invited competitors to combine “innovation, technical skill, and a dash of creativity.”
Penn administrators, faculty discuss innovation opportunities at Penn AI launch event
The Penn AI launch event offered insight into the growing use of AI in research as well as the need for Penn to keep up with technological advancements.
Here's how AI has changed the way Penn faculty grade, teach courses
Multiple faculty members told The Daily Pennsylvanian that AI has forced them to change how they grade and teach their courses.
Penn researchers collaborate to create new treatment option for dental infection causing tooth loss
Penn's Dental School and School of Engineering and Applied Science have worked together to create a new treatment option for apical periodontitis, a chronic dental infection that causes tooth loss and affects more than half of the world's population.
Path@Penn launches new course planning feature
Students can access the Path Plans tool by selecting the “Primary Plan” button on the Path@Penn webpage.
Wharton dean, LinkedIn founder discuss ‘Embracing AI with Purpose’ at Tarnopol lecture series
Dedicated to spotlighting global leaders, the Tarnopol lecture series serves as a platform for addressing critical societal issues, including AI’s potential and ethical implications.
Wharton alum donates $5 million to launch AI lab for organizational innovation
Pincus's gift — the largest of its kind given to the Generative AI Labs at Wharton — will support GAIL's efforts to explore "innovative AI applications for business and education."
Search underway for speaker in Elon Musk endowed Penn lecture series
Discussions at the Center for Particle Cosmology are currently underway to select the next speaker for the Elon Musk Public Lecture series, which was last held in 2023.
Penn GSE launches initiative to integrate AI into Philadelphia school district classrooms
The PASS initiative, which is being developed in partnership with Catalyst @ Penn GSE, aims to equip educators and administrators with the tools and knowledge necessary to integrate AI into schools.
Penn Engineering launches Responsible Innovation Initiative at intersection of tech and ethics
The initiative aims to ensure that technological advancement serves humanity's best interests.
Penn students develop online tool to help high schoolers navigate college finances
Launched in April 2024, Finiverse is a free app that provides a comprehensive breakdown of the total cost of attending individual colleges.
Penn Advanced Research Computing Center set to launch spring 2025
The center will will aid computational and data-driven research through hardware, software, system support, and research consulting services, with the goal of advancing Penn’s research community, according to the announcement.
Professor Danaë Metaxa to represent Penn in United States AI Safety Institute Consortium
The consortium brings together hundreds of organizations, consumers, leading specialists in the industry, and researchers to make sure that AI can be used effectively and efficiently.
Penn Med, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia receive $14 million grant for gene-editing research
This funding, provided through the NIH’s Somatic Cell Genome Editing Program, will support gene-editing research aimed at developing treatments for rare metabolic diseases.
Penn's Graduate School of Education joins global consortium on artificial intelligence in education
Institutions in Ghana, Spain, India, Kazakhstan, Colombia, and Qatar will contribute to the consortium in addition to Penn.
Fall classes are ramping up. But students say Penn’s WiFi is slowing down.
According to Penn Information Systems and Computing, 57 campus spaces between 31st Street and 38th Street experienced issues with their connection.