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Three ways to reframe boredom
Reflecting on Jane Austen, 250 years after her birth
Performing Bach and considering his world
Two 2025 project grants and a fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Native North America Gallery opens at the Penn Museum
U.S. Army veteran connects service to research on empathy in ancient Greece
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Bridging urban studies and psychology to tackle housing instability
‘How the Cold War Broke the News’
Centering joy in AI development and implementation
Exploring Philadelphia’s petrochemical past
One School, many schools of thought
How climate change affects migration
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Is there an AI bubble and what happens if it bursts?
The path from labs to the marketplace
Does AI limit creativity?
Understanding the Fed’s inflation outlook
The Wharton School launches Master of Science in Quantitative Finance with $60M gift from Bruce I. Jacobs
Deepfakes, digital doubles, and the law: Jennifer Rothman on protecting identity in the AI era
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Lifesaving breakthrough in bacterial behavior
Weighing sustainability of real vs. fake Christmas trees
How one molecule keeps plants youthful
Evolution at a molecular level
An ‘illuminating’ design sheds light on cholesterol
Understanding the climate record through objects
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New video dataset to advance AI for health care
The world’s smallest programmable, autonomous robots
Tumor-on-a-chip offers insight into cancer-fighting cells in immunotherapy
Eva Dyer is listening to the brain’s code with a little help from AI
AI at the eyelid: Glasses that track health through your blinks
Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars
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Gene therapy ‘switch’ may offer non-addictive pain relief
Electronic medical records help save lives of HIV patients
Addressing the psychological impacts of inflammatory bowel disease
The Mobile CPR Project takes lifesaving training on the road
Improving treatment for an autoimmune bleeding condition
Startup recognized for milestones in cancer care
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Awards and accolades for Penn faculty
20 breakthroughs of 2025
Two Penn students chosen as 2026 Marshall Scholars
Penn Forward’s Access, Affordability, and Value co-chairs on creating opportunity
Catch him if you can: Jared Richardson’s remarkable career
The greatest cover songs, from Whitney Houston to Metallica
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Bringing COP30 from Brazil into Penn classrooms
Florencia Polite: Healer, educator, advocate
Penn fourth-year Florence Onyiuke named a 2026 Rhodes Scholar
A Lauder Institute intercultural venture in Oman and the UAE
Perry World House: Four perspectives on the Middle East ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas
Penn receives $10M to strengthen urban research locally and globally
Natural Sciences
A massive chunk of ice, a new laser, and new information on sea-level rise
For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.
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Exhibits
Re/Make History: Crafting the Past with 21st-Century Tech
This exhibit features the work of Penn staff and students who created replicas and new works of art in three campus makerspaces: Education Commons, the Bollinger Digital Fabrication Lab, and Venture Lab. Through experiential learning, the contributors to this exhibit cultivated creativity and new technological skills while deepening their appreciation of cultural heritage. Free and open to the public.
Ends June 19, 2026
Talks
Expanding Immunotherapy Access in Africa
This webinar will explore the practical, clinical, and policy challenges of expanding access to cancer immunotherapies across African settings. Featuring experts from academic medicine, oncology practice, and global health policy, the session will highlight lessons from early implementation, considerations around cost and affordability, and pathways to more equitable access, offering insights relevant to clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and global oncology partners. Free and open to the public. Register to attend.
Talks
Will Climate Cooperation Wane Before Emissions Peak?
This Perry World House panel will feature current and former climate negotiators discussing the next Climate Conference (COP31), which will partially focus on whether there is a “new normal” in climate cooperation toward global emissions reductions, or if the formal process can revive ambition and multilateralism. Free and open to the public. Register to attend.
Federal Government Updates
Penn is closely monitoring federal policy changes affecting institutions of higher education and academic health systems.
Title IX Compliance in Athletics
Penn's Title IX Resolution with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights
Penn Priorities
A look at a few of our big picture priorities that improve Penn as we create knowledge to benefit the world.
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