Penn: Birthplace of the Modern ENIAC
Philadelphia, USA
A walk across the university Benjamin Franklin built for 'useful knowledge,' tracing 250 years of world-changing firsts. From Wharton (the first business school) east to the Moore School - birthplace of ENIAC, the first electronic computer - and the Singh nanotechnology center, then down to the medical campus: the first university teaching hospital, North America's first medical school, the spot where Muybridge helped invent the moving image, and finally the Penn Medicine labs where Kariko and Weissman's Nobel-winning mRNA platform made the COVID vaccines possible.
Stops on this walk
- Wharton — Huntsman Hall
- The Moore School — ENIAC
- Singh Center for Nanotechnology
- HUP — First University Teaching Hospital
- The First Medical School
- Eadweard Muybridge & the Motion Studies
- The mRNA Revolution
Part of: Ivy League Campus Walking Tours