Penn Hyperloop, a student team sponsored in part by the Mack Institute, made an impressive showing at The Boring Company’s “Not-a-Boring” Competition, a global contest that challenges university teams to design and build advanced tunnel boring machines. Competing against top engineering programs from around the world, Penn Hyperloop earned third…Read More
The annual healthcare innovation challenge asked student teams to consider how to better connect groups with limited online presence to essential healthcare/vaccine services, given the impacts of COVID-19?…Read More
A guest post by organizers about 2021 FemmeHacks, which aims to empower, educate, and inspire women and non-binary individuals across the nation.…Read More
70 million Americans lack access to traditional banking services. Instead, those in a financially precarious position often must resort to predatory alternatives such as payday lenders. The winners of the 2015 Penn Design Challenge, sponsored by the Mack Institute, describe their approach to changing this system. …Read More
The Mack Institute is proud to be a sponsor of TedxPenn. For the past ten months, a team of 30 undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania quietly worked to create the biggest TEDx event the school has ever seen.…Read More
Supporting students in their innovation-related pursuits is an important part of the Mack Institute’s mission. We sponsor the Wharton Technology Club, helping them bring tech industry players to campus to share their experience and knowledge with students. This guest post by incoming club president Stephanie Au gives a peek at…Read More
Centuries after Socrates proclaimed “the unexamined life is not worth living,” managers have begun subjecting their routine processes for handling people to analysis. Organizations are asking questions about how effective their processes for hiring, firing, paying, and evaluating employees are, and they are looking to quantitative data for answers. This…Read More
Spring semester may be over, but for a small group of Penn students, the lab is now their second home. This year, the Mack Institute is once again sponsoring Penn’s International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) student team. iGEM is a large undergraduate synthetic biology competition in which students use standard…Read More
