Written by Ebonee Johnson Putting in the work to sort reliable info on the internet from the not so reliable requires an amount of time that most of us just don’t have available. With the subsequent pressures of COVID-19 weighing on society, that time is a more valuable resource than Read more
Written by Ebonee Johnson Penn’s School of Engineering has issued a call for submissions from the Penn community’s staff, students and faculty alike. In the midst of a global pandemic, heightened tensions due to police brutality and systemic injustice, and looming economic crisis, Penn Engineering wants to provide opportunities for Read more
Written by Ebonee Johnson Given the current racial tensions and incidents involving police brutality around the country, the Penn Alumni’s “Antiracist Education and Action” series is timely and important. Starting as soon as tomorrow, the events range from a Zoom chat with Rolling Stone Senior Writer Jamil Smith (Penn ’97) Read more
Written by Ebonee Johnson This year’s Spring 2020 DATS Presentation featured a wide variety of insightful and relevant topics. Below, you’ll find a list of the presenters, in addition to some project goals and key takeaways. “A hierarchical bayesian approach for tagged playlist generation” Presenter: Anish JainAdvised by: Eric BradlowConclusion: Read more
Written by Ebonee Johnson Every year, Penn Health Tech (PHT) hosts a call for proposals that center the organization’s ethos: developing solutions that merge the fields of medicine and engineering. This year, with the ethos still in the foreground, the specific goals changed. “In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we Read more
Written by Ebonee Johnson Alumni panelists: Luke Carlson (Apple), Jenny Chen (Airbnb), Qi Fang ( IQVIA), Marty Gindi (Signant Health), Alwyn Goodloe (NASA Langley Research Center), John Hewitt (Stanford University), Derek Jobst (RaiseMe), Kavya Lakshminarayanan (Microsoft), Spencer Lee (Epic Systems), Sudarshan Muralidhar (Igneous Systems), Sneha Rajana, Ishan Srivastava (Microsoft – Read more
Written by Ebonee Johnson On Friday, April 24th, CIS students gathered to present their projects at the Spring 2020 Senior Design Alumni Presentations. Due to the current COVID-19 crisis and its subsequent effects, “gathered” took on a virtual connotation: Seniors were asked to attend using video call platform Zoom. CIS Read more