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Studying Shakespeare through the lens of love
Exploring ‘One Thousand and One Nights’
Literature and medicine
The professor who moonlights as a songwriter
An inside look at the history of television
Connecting Latin American fiction through infrastructure and transit
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100 years of television
Why students leave community college
New report unpacks the crises facing American journalism and offers solutions
Early modern literature in the Black Atlantic world
Seven things to know about ‘Common Sense’
A design fall studio brings interdisciplinary thinking to Philly’s historic and commercial core
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Dorothy Roberts’ memoir on interracial families in America
Is there an AI bubble and what happens if it bursts?
Using data to drive criminal justice reform
The path from labs to the marketplace
Does AI limit creativity?
Understanding the Fed’s inflation outlook
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Green Lab’s Freezer Inventory Project: Turning a ripple of change into a wave
Raindrop-formed ‘sandballs’ that erode hillsides tenfold
How to incentivize problem solving in groups
Physics of foam strangely resembles AI training
Why are icy surfaces slippery?
How plants ‘hedge their bets’ for better reproductive outcomes
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Penn’s ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer, turns 80
Chris Callison-Burch: 25 years of AI innovation
An AI tool to help better understand medical visits
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
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Distinct frontal brain signal tied to compulsive behaviors in people with OCD
America’s first hospital to open museum at Pennsylvania Hospital’s historic Pine Street building
Safe driving habits boosted by insurance plans that reward safe driving
Leveraging AI to help stroke survivors recover speech abilities
Low-dose radiation therapy helps relieve osteoarthritic pain
The small, high-tech beanie protecting premature babies
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A look at Revolutionary War nursing
Energy Week to explore solutions for transition to clean energy
Awards and accolades for Penn faculty
Penn fourth-year awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Weitzman Hall, renewed and expanded, celebrated at opening ceremony
Exploring the Declaration through ink and type
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Solar solutions for farmers in The Gambia
Prithvi Parthasarathy: Using AI to improve health care delivery in rural India
Understanding Japan’s snap elections
Bringing COP30 from Brazil into Penn classrooms
Florencia Polite: Healer, educator, advocate
Penn fourth-year Florence Onyiuke named a 2026 Rhodes Scholar
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
Nursing the Revolution: Care Work in Revolutionary America
This symposium will unite scholars of 18th-century nursing; early American healers; Indigenous, African, and European care practices; and Revolutionary War era military medicine and battlefield care, including related areas of focus, to discuss how the Revolutionary War—as a major health crisis—shaped healthcare labor in the early national United States. Free and open to the Penn community. Register to attend.
Well-Being Pop-Up: Put it in Perspective
Participants in this 15-minute conversation hosted by Penn HR will talk about catastrophic thinking and practice a simple strategy for taking purposeful action. Penn staff can register to attend.
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Animals and Emergency Preparedness
Part of the One Health@Penn Research Community Work in Progress Series, this seminar will feature Lisa Murphy, professor of toxicology at Penn Vet, and Cindy Otto, professor of working dog sciences & sports medicine, providing attendees with insight on animals and emergency preparedness. A Q&A will follow the presentations. 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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