Articles by Sarah Shahed
04/16/25 11:15pm
Amy Gutmann, former Canadian ambassador discuss ‘common sense diplomacy’ at Perry World House
The April 14 event, introduced by Penn President Larry Jameson and moderated by 1967 Penn graduate Andrea Mitchell, took place at Perry World House. 04/13/25 10:00pm
Penn Faculty Senate event addresses future of higher education amid federal policy changes
The April 9 event titled “Higher Education Under Siege: The Future of the Four-Year Degree" and moderated by Provost John Jackson, invited panelists to discuss the future of higher education. 04/03/25 1:26am
Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative hosts second annual Wharton-AI-Hackathon
This year's hackathon was titled “Build Your AI for Education Tool & Solve the Prompt Hacking Challenge" and invited competitors to combine “innovation, technical skill, and a dash of creativity.” 04/02/25 2:41am
Penn collaboration with Atacama Cosmology Telescope releases images of universe's early years
The images received from this telescope are known as the cosmic microwave background, and they provide an exceptionally clear picture of the universe at about 380,000 years old. 03/31/25 12:08am
Annenberg School graduate students host panel on future of presidential endorsements in journalism
Annenberg School for Communcation graduate students Liz Hallgren and Anjali DasSarma organized the March 26 event to discuss the newfound controversiality of newspaper endorsements. 03/03/25 11:38pm
Philadelphia to install statue honoring Penn alum, first Black woman to receive Ph.D. in economics
The City of Philadelphia will honor Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander — the first Black woman in the United States to receive a Ph.D. in economics and the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School — with a statue at Thomas Paine Plaza outside the Philadelphia Municipal Services Building. 02/27/25 11:20pm
Perry World House hosts ‘Autocracy in the World’ event on authoritarianism, role of the media
Ben-Ghiat is “a historian of authoritarianism" and testified before the House Jan. 6 Committee on alleged attempts made by the administration of 1968 Wharton graduate and President Donald Trump to stifle freedom in the country. 02/13/25 1:31am