Wharton Faculty to Present on AI Regulation and Productivity, Generative AI, and Entrepreneurship at One-Day Seminars for Business Journalists Program in San Francisco on June 26, 2025

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Applications now open, deadline to apply is June 12 What: The Wharton School is pleased to invite full-time business journalists to apply for the next one-day Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists program, held on Wharton’s San Francisco campus. The June 2025 program will feature Wharton Profs. Kevin Werbach, Hamsa Bastani,Read More

2025 Lipman Family Prize Winners Named

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Grand Prize Winner will be announced April 24th PHILADELPHIA, March 10, 2025 – Barbershop Books, BleagLee, and Technovation have been named as winners of the 2025 Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize. Chosen from an applicant pool of 150 organizations, all three winners are guaranteed an unrestricted financial award ofRead More

Jason Altschuler and Anderson Ye Zhang, Assistant Professors of Statistics and Data Science, Named Among 2025 Sloan Research Fellows

Jason Altschuler and Anderson Ye Zhang, Assistant Professors of Statistics and Data Science, Named Among 2025 Sloan Research Fellows

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,Read More

Transformative Gift and Matching Challenge from the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund Advances Research and Training to Expand Health Care Access

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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 theRead More

Wharton Online Launches AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching Developed in Collaboration with OpenAI

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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 learnersRead More

Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists To Hold Flagship October 2024 Program in Philadelphia, All-Expense-Paid Fellowships Available

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Applications now open, deadline to apply is August 26 What: The Wharton School is pleased to invite business journalists to apply for the Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists flagship program, held on Wharton’s Philadelphia campus. There are several funding opportunities available for journalists, including an all-expenses-paid fellowship for U.S.-based journalistsRead More

Mary-Hunter “Mae” McDonnell Appointed Inaugural Faculty Recipient of Bantwal Family Goldman Sachs Presidential Professorship

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PHILADELPHIA, June 4, 2024 – It is with great pleasure that Penn Interim President J. Larry Jameson and Wharton Dean Erika James announce that Mary-Hunter (“Mae”) McDonnell has been named as the inaugural Bantwal Family Goldman Sachs Presidential Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. TheRead More

The Wharton School Makes Strategic Investment in Artificial Intelligence Research and Teaching

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School establishes Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative, announces first business school collaboration with OpenAI PHILADELPHIA, May 29, 2024—The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania today announced a major investment to drastically scale its research and teaching capabilities in the areas of artificial intelligence and data science. Under the umbrellaRead More

Wharton Executive Education Brings Managers a Roadmap for Effective AI Oversight with new Strategies for Accountable AI Program

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Live online executive program will run October 16 – December 18, 2024 PHILADELPHIA, April 25, 2024 – It’s well established that artificial intelligence (AI) has changed and will continue changing the way we work. Yet with so many organizations rapidly adopting AI technologies, risks are growing as well, including well-knownRead More

Seacology Wins $250,000 Lipman Family Prize

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Food for Education and Simprints Win $125,000 Each PHILADELPHIA, April 22, 2024 – Seacology has been named the winner of the 2024 Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize. Chosen from approximately 130 applicants around the globe, Seacology protects threatened island ecosystems all over the world by working directly with communities toRead More