At Pennsylvania State University

Humanities education at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania.

The Department of Humanities at Pennsylvania State University's (Penn State) College of Medicine, created at the founding of the College in 1967, was the first of its kind at any medical school. This article begins by describing how the department has developed over the years, and then discusses its present configuration, including kinds of faculty appointments, information about how it is fund...

The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine.

Research in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Pennsylvania

This report describes recent and continuing research in artificial intelligence and related fields being conducted at the University of Pennsylvania. Although AI research takes place primarily in the Department of Computer and Information Science (in the School of Engineering and Applied Science), many aspects of this research are performed in collaboration with other engineering departnrents a...

Optimizing performance funding at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Kutztown University (KU) is one of 14 public universities that comprise the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). Each fiscal year, the 14 state universities compete for funds based on their performance relative to 51 criteria defined by PASSHE. In this paper, we will discuss a mixed zero-one integer programming model that was developed by a team comprised of faculty and admin...

University of Pennsylvania: description of the University of Pennsylvania system used for MUC-6

Breck Baldwin and Jeff Reynar informally began the University of Pennsylvania's MUC-6 coreference effor t in January of 1995 . For the first few months, tools were built and the system was extended at weekly 'hack sessions .' As more people began attending these meetings and contributing to the project, it grew to include eight graduate students . While the effort was still informal, Mark Wasso...