Two 2025 President's Engagement Prize recipients are using AI-powered sensors to track seniors' vital health data for caregivers. –
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March 20, 2026
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2025 President’s Innovation Prize recipients Melanie Herbert and Alexandra Popescu (left to right) are leveraging AI and privacy-focused computing to address the crisis of an aging population and overburdened health care staff. The SyncLabs team has built a unique technology using AI-powered sensors to monitor seniors’ daily habits and privately communicate vital health data to streamline the shift handoff and documentation process for caregivers. (Video)
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Kara Butler loves history, learning, and talking. Now, the fourth-year anthropology and communication double-major is preparing to start a master’s program at the Graduate School of Education in the fall, with the goal of becoming a museum educator.
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Through their podcast “SideGig,” professors Kevin Platt (center) and Paul Saint-Amour (right) explore their shared love of music by inviting guests to partake in harmonious trios. Their first guest, Emily Wilson (left), recited Greek verse while accompanied by the co-hosts on bass and guitar. The podcast doubles as a chance for the pair of long-standing friends to reconnect, creating music simply for the joy of it.
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For the fifth season in a row, the Penn gymnastics team claimed the regular season title for the Gymnastics East Conference and climbed to No. 38 in the Road to Nationals rankings.
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Matthew Bidwell of the Wharton School says job-hopping can be a red flag to potential employers: “Either it’s because you’re incompetent, and you keep getting edged out, or you have very itchy feet.”
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MARCH 21
Attendees will enjoy a night of music from the Penn Symphony Orchestra, featuring French composer Hector Berlioz’s concert opener “Roman Carnival” overture, the “Love Song” movement of the Symphony No. 5 of Austrian tone poet Gustav Mahler, and the dance music of Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Free and open to the public.
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