The 165 research centers and institutes on campus also reflect the University’s innovative, civic-minded and pragmatic creator: More than 250 years after Ben Franklin broke new ground in founding Penn, its faculty, students, and alumni continue to make breakthroughs in research, scholarship, and education. Its many subsequent “firsts,” include the world’s first collegiate business school (Wharton, 1881), the world’s first electronic, large-scale, general-purpose digital computer (ENIAC, 1946), and the first woman president of an Ivy League institution (Judith Rodin, inaugurated in 1994) as well as the first female Ivy League president to succeed another female (Amy Gutmann, inaugurated in 2004).
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An undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania studied a little-known dialect in the Ciociaria region of Italy and its complex relationship between two dueling political powers, Rome and Naples. He hopes that his studies will serve as a model for languages worldwide facing similar obscurity, proving useful to "anyone interested in the long term effects of conflicted territory and shifting national boundaries."
A new website highlights the innovative approach to teaching STEM education.
The University of Pennsylvania has been named a project site for the Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative.
Over the next three years, each of the eight campus sites will implement a major undergraduate STEM education project that incorporates key elements of the AAU STEM framework.
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The University of Pennsylvania has been named a project site for the Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative, a multiyear, multimillion dollar project that aims to improve the quality of education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
The University of Pennsylvania is supporting faculty in making use of Structured, Active, In-class Learning (SAIL) in their teaching. SAIL classes begin with the related premises that students benefit from learning by doing and that class time should be used to help students learn to work with material.
Penn’s AAU/STEM Initiative seeks to improve introductory courses in mathematics, chemistry, physics, and bioengineering through teaching practices that foster active learning and enable students to gain a sense of engagement in these disciplines.