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The monstrous and mythical

Can sports fandom be a religious experience?

Nurturing a love for math

How British settlers used children as tools of settlement in the British Atlantic

Turning the desert into an oasis

Writers of color are leaving the journalism industry for Substack. Is it better there?
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Fifth Energy Week to bring Penn community together around solutions

Art Matters: ‘Fantine’ collage in Ryan Veterinary Hospital

Amy Gutmann receives Yale Legend in Leadership Award

Winter blooms at the Morris Arboretum & Gardens

New campus choir finds harmony

Celebrating five years of excellence at VinUniversity
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Finding the rhythm behind business fundamentals

Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati is making an impact around the world

How will the workplace change in 2025?

Nelson Flores looks back on decades of bilingual education

Forging pathways to careers in legislation and public policy

Dorothy Roberts on reproductive rights and justice
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Standardizing provider assessments to aid veterans at risk of suicide

How Penn is helping with bird flu research and disease surveillance

The compassionate team behind CAR T cancer breakthroughs

Avian flu: An explainer

The motor driving Penn’s biomedical research

Science behind genetic testing for identifying risk of opioid misuse remains unproven
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Borrowing nature’s blueprint: How scientists replicated bone marrow

BEND lipids improve LNP mRNA delivery and gene editing

Who to vaccinate first? Answering a life-or-death question with network theory

Revolutionizing data centers: Penn Engineers’ breakthrough in photonic switching

New ways to modulate cell activity remotely

New quantum sensing technology reveals subatomic signals

Campus & Community
Penn Center for Innovation celebrates 10 years
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Witch Hazels Tour
Morris Arboretum & Gardens maintains one of the largest witch hazel collections in the country. A guide will lead a tour through the grounds to highlight varieties of witchhazels. The tour is free with general admission; PennCard holders receive free admission.
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Penn students are invited to watch the Super Bowl, featuring the Philadelphia Eagles versus the Kansas City Chiefs, inside the Houston Hall game room.

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Penn Schools, centers, institutes, student groups, and more host events for Energy Week 2025, ranging from Lightning Talks hosted by the Kleinman Center to a talk about climate change and artificial intelligence, hosted by the Penn Environmental Innovations Initiative.
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