Sync Labs Wins $50,000 Perlman Grand Prize in Startup Challenge presented by Venture Lab at the University of Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA, MAY 8, 2025—The University of Pennsylvania’s Venture Lab is pleased to announce the 2025 winner of its annual Startup Challenge: Sync Labs, founded by Melanie Herbert, EE’25. Sync Labs is a healthtech company building AI-powered monitoring systems to address the caregiver shortage in senior living. Its platform, Alice, uses proprietary edge-based computer vision to detect ...Read More
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Barbershop Books Wins $250,000 Lipman Family Grand Prize

BleagLee and Technovation Win $150,000 Each PHILADELPHIA, April 28, 2025 – Barbershop Books has been named the grand prize winner of the 2025 Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize. Chosen from approximately 150 applicants around the globe, Barbershop Books is the first of its kind community-based model committed to addressing literacy disparities with culturally responsive solutions. ...Read More
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Nancy Zhang and Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Professors of Statistics and Data Science, Awarded the Inaugural David Cox Medal for Statistics

PHILADELPHIA, April 3, 2025 — Three leading mid-career statisticians have been announced as the winners of the David Cox Medal for Statistics, which has been awarded for the first time in 2025 to commemorate the work of the late world-leading statistician and former Royal Statistical Society president, Sir David Cox. The three winners are Prof. Eric ...Read More
The Wharton School Introduces New Undergraduate Concentration and MBA Major in Artificial Intelligence for Business

PHILADELPHIA, April 2, 2025 – The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania today announced a new undergraduate concentration and MBA major in Artificial Intelligence for Business. Designed to address the world’s growing demand for AI-related skills and expertise, Artificial Intelligence for Business will equip students with a technical understanding of how AI systems can ...Read More