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On a breezy, overcast early fall day, members of the Penn community gathered to dedicate the University’s new center for data science and artificial intelligence: Amy Gutmann Hall.
Serving as a nexus for research across all 12 Penn schools, the 116,000-square-foot, six-story building is centrally located on the northeast corner of 34th and Chestnut streets. As the Philadelphia region’s tallest mass timber structure, Penn Engineering’s Amy Gutmann Hall has a significantly reduced carbon footprint, reinforcing Penn’s dedication to sustainable innovation and embodying the University’s commitment to environmentally responsible design.
Interim President J. Larry Jameson expressed enthusiasm for having a new home on Penn’s campus for the burgeoning domains of data science and AI.
Amy Gutmann Hall, said Jameson, “will be a place for discovery and breakthroughs, and there are already so many of these happening at Penn.” Interdisciplinary teams, which President Emerita Amy Gutmann championed throughout her tenure, he added, “are going to make magic happen in this building. We already see these teams coming together to use artificial intelligence to discover new antibiotics. The National Science Foundation has recently supported the RNA foundry to create molecules and nanoparticles that can be used for therapeutic purposes. And this is just the beginning.”
This story was written by Nathi Magubane. To read the full article, please visit Penn Today.
