Drone Research; Palestinian Death

figures (a) and (b) from the GRASP Lab’s “SEER: Safe Efficient Exploration for Aerial Robots using Learning to Predict Information Gain”: arXiv:2209.11034 by Penn Against the Occupation, 2025 Penn Engineering prides itself on an interdisciplinary, humanitarian approach to engineering for the betterment of the world. However, just a few layers of digging show a concerning levelContinue reading “Drone Research; Palestinian Death”

How Penn and Other Universities are Turning Teaching into Temp Work

Penn is not only a school; it is also a workplace for over 40,000 people – including faculty, staff, postdoctoral researchers and instructors, graduate researchers and TAs, other student workers, healthcare employees, and subcontracted campus workers. What are the labor conditions of the tens of thousands of people whose work makes Penn work?