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Connecting Latin American fiction through infrastructure and transit
Sizing up Pennsylvania’s creative workforce
A study of the ancient built environment
Three ways to reframe boredom
Reflecting on Jane Austen, 250 years after her birth
Performing Bach and considering his world
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Preserving the past
A design fall studio brings interdisciplinary thinking to Philly’s historic and commercial core
Planning ahead in an age of longevity
Iran at a crossroads
How ‘um’ and ‘uh’ shape impressions
Bridging urban studies and psychology to tackle housing instability
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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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Why are icy surfaces slippery?
Physics of foam strangely resembles AI training
How plants ‘hedge their bets’ for better reproductive outcomes
Lifesaving breakthrough in bacterial behavior
Weighing sustainability of real vs. fake Christmas trees
How one molecule keeps plants youthful
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Penn Engineering’s Chris Callison-Burch on 25 years of AI innovation
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
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Safeguarding health for animals and people
RTW Foundation donates $8M to reimagine physician training in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine
Can aging be treated at the cellular level?
From calves to canines, Penn Vet shines at Pennsylvania Farm Show
Health in Philly, past and present
Sniffing out cancer: Trained dogs can detect hemangiosarcoma by scent
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Awards and accolades for Penn faculty
5 things: A conversation with Spike Lee
A balancing act with Carly Oniki
Penn Forward: Sarah Rottenberg applies design thinking for strategic University initiative
Awards and accolades for Penn faculty
20 breakthroughs of 2025
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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.
Upcoming Events
Exhibits
Exhibit: Collecting the New Irascibles–Art in the 1980s
“Collecting the New Irascibles: Art in the 1980s” opens a window into the 1980s Lower East Side art scene, where low rents and studio-ready lofts cultivated a dynamic arts ecology. The exhibition, located in the Arthur Ross Gallery, brings together loans from world-renowned collections and highlights several artistic movements of the 1980s that signaled a decisive break from past expectations and a full-force tilt toward the “new.” Free and open to the public.
Ends April 12, 2026
Special Events
Pandemic-Era Experiments & the Future of Public Space
This panel will bring together researchers and local practitioners studying how streeteries spread across cities, with a spotlight on Philadelphia's experience, and why some neighborhoods experienced many while others saw few, and how shifting rules ultimately led to many of them disappearing. Panelists will explore whether temporary pandemic experiments will lead to lasting improvements in how we design and share public space. Free and open to the public. Register to attend.
Talks
Communicating Science Effectively
Emily Oster—professor of economics at Brown and founder of ParentData—will share best practices for communicating scientific evidence clearly, responsibly, and effectively. The session is geared toward researchers, clinicians, policymakers, communicators, and students seeking practical insights into how evidence can be conveyed in ways that meaningfully inform health and well-being. Attendees will also have the opportunity to ask questions about research, public engagement, and practice. 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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