At the Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine.

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...

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...

Internet Use at the University: A Comparative Analysis Between Students of the Pennsylvania State University (USA) and the University of Cologne (Germany)

American universities are thought to be ahead of universities in Europe in terms of use of the Internet for students’ learning processes. This study with a total of 893 participants in the US and in Germany investigates the use and the perception of the Internet for educational purposes with a special focus on three learning scenarios, instructional, collaborative, and autonomous. The study con...