03/30/16 6:23am
His TED talks, which both detail his work on drones and discuss the future of flying robots, have garnered a countless total number of views — the first talk reaching nearly 4 million on the TED website.
03/30/16 6:21am
Twins might normally be compared for their similarities and differences, but only one set of twins can say they have been studied for their reactions to space flight versus time on Earth.
03/26/16 10:00am
Despite the name, a background in IT isn’t the most important part of being an IT Advisor. What is? Customer service.
03/25/16 2:52am
Big Pharma is tapping into the vast pool of knowledge at Penn Medicine.
03/22/16 5:35am
Everipedia’s vision is to become the most accessible online encyclopedia that can be edited by members of the public.
03/22/16 3:16am
Laptops can be distracting, and increasingly, many professors have begun to introduce laptop policies that determine when laptops can be used or whether they can be used at all.
03/21/16 6:08am
Oncora is a startup that compiles data from millions of patient records in order for doctors to gain predictive insight into what type of cancer treatment will work best for a patient, making the overall process more personalized.
03/21/16 3:35am
The pair saw the potential demand for an application that would enable students to find a peer with a particular skill set and has worked for the past year and a half to bring their idea to life.
03/17/16 6:35am
Students across the Philadelphia area gathered together on Feb. 24 at the University City Science Center’s Quorum to compete for thousands of dollars in prize money at the first-ever College Pitch Philly competition.
02/29/16 7:22am
Nearly 400 musicians from 64 countries signed up to participate in a 48-hour international music production competition operated by Engineering graduate student Nicholas Yiu called Mixathon48.
02/25/16 6:08am
With demolition underway at nearby Penn Tower, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology braces for impact.
02/23/16 6:20am
The congressional hearing, which plays into the determination of the federal budget, dealt with the role of the aircraft carrier in ensuring the superiority of the U.S. military’s naval power.
02/22/16 5:49am
In response to the lack of females in the industry, FemmeHacks was started at Drexel University by Engineering sophomore Andrea Baric, who transferred to Penn from Drexel last fall.
02/15/16 7:18am
Three-and-a-half days of our lives are spent untangling earbuds. This is the premise on which 1994 Engineering graduate Vanessa Chan markets her new product loopit, a pair of earbuds that rarely tangle due to a patent pending magnetic clasp.
02/13/16 11:00am
Horizons, a coding bootcamp course that College and Wharton alumni Edward Lando and Abhi Ramesh will offer at Penn, seeks to give students real-world coding skills that they can use in their future careers.
02/12/16 4:47am
Three Wharton and Engineering students have discovered a way to drastically speed up beer brewing, winning $10,000 in the process.
02/11/16 6:49am
If created, this algorithm could have major implications for the political scene, particularly after former CIA member Edward Snowden’s revelations of the information that the government has kept secret from the public.
02/11/16 6:29am
Engineering senior Hong Kim believes his new app, Otter, will help you find a date that's likely to last.
02/05/16 1:18am
Most computer science courses are born from a professor's research or are part of a prescribed track within the major. But CIS 399: Foundations of Data Science — newly offered this semester — began with a few students and a good idea.
02/01/16 4:13am
The Federal Aviation Agency estimated that more than 700,000 drones were sold during the last holiday season, making it one of the hottest selling toys in the last two years.
