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NEW YORK, February 20, 2025 — The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announces the names of the 126 early career researchers who have been selected to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2025. Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships honor exceptional researchers at US and Canadian educational institutions, whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them ...Read More

PHILADELPHIA, January 28, 2025 – The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (Penn LDI) are pleased to announce a landmark $3.5 million gift to establish the Davis Family SUMR Program Endowment Fund, with an additional $1 million matching challenge from the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund. ...Read More

PHILADELPHIA, December 10, 2024 – The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania proudly announces a $5 million gift from Mark J. Pincus, W’88, founder of social gaming company Zynga and a pioneer in generative AI applications. This visionary gift supports the launch of the Pincus Artificial Intelligence Lab for Organizational Innovation. As the largest ...Read More

The Wieler Family Professorship in the field of philanthropy will hold a primary appointment in Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice and a secondary appointment in the Wharton School PHILADELPHIA, December 3, 2024—The University of Pennsylvania today announced a $5 million gift to create the Wieler Family Professorship, a position to be focused on ...Read More

New Coursera-Hosted Course Empowers Teachers to Integrate AI into Their Classrooms PHILADELPHIA, November 21, 2024 – Today, Wharton Online, in collaboration with OpenAI, announces the launch of a new course, AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching, available on Coursera, a leading online-learning platform to more than 162 million learners globally. Designed for educators in higher ...Read More

Leading an AI-Powered Future Offers Exclusive Insights from AI Visionary Reid Hoffman and Wharton Faculty to Equip Leaders for an AI-Driven World PHILADELPHIA, October 22, 2024 – The Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announces Leading an AI-Powered Future, a new program featuring LinkedIn co-founder and AI visionary ...Read More

Open-enrollment, live online program will run April 1–May 20, 2025 PHILADELPHIA, October 17, 2024 – Major companies and countries in increasing numbers are pledging a net-zero impact by the middle or end of this century. In fact, the count of businesses officially working on environmental pledges more than doubled from 2022 to 2023 and now exceeds ...Read More

PHILADELPHIA, PA, September 17, 2024—The Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will examine the impact of artificial intelligence on the financial sector at its annual conference on Friday, September 20 in Jon M. Huntsman Hall on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus in Philadelphia. “The world ...Read More

The Center will bring together six schools at Penn with $10 million in support from Knight Foundation and the University The University of Pennsylvania today announced $10 million in funding dedicated to its new Center for Media, Technology, and Democracy. The Center will be housed in the Penn School of Engineering and Applied Science (Penn Engineering) ...Read More

PHILADELPHIA, July 18, 2024 – “We are at the beginning of the greatest intergenerational transfer of wealth that has ever happened,” says Wharton professor Raffi Amit. The reporting backs him up. Baby boomers and the silent generation are expected to bequeath about $84 trillion by 2045, most of it going directly to their heirs, according ...Read More