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Exploring Black America: A historian’s unique path of inquiry
Advancing veterinary medicine through interdisciplinary research
Hoop dreams with Ethan Roberts
Could ‘cyborg’ transplants replace pancreatic tissue damaged by diabetes?
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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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Exploring Black America: A historian’s unique path of inquiry
Designing opportunities, not solutions, in Northeast Arizona
For Yezidi, historic images and cultural restoration
Transforming community health and social connections in rural areas of the US
100 years of television
Why students leave community college
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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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How ancient attraction shaped the human genome
No brain, no gain: Neuronal activity enhances benefits of exercise
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
Why are icy surfaces slippery?
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Beating the heat: Designing cooling for bodies in motion
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
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Cancer care for the mind and spirit
Understanding GLP-1 signaling: A path to better therapies
Could ‘cyborg’ transplants replace pancreatic tissue damaged by diabetes?
Advancing veterinary medicine through interdisciplinary research
A 24/7 virtual care service means freedom from on-call hours
Where peak performance meets progressive disease
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Awards and accolades for Penn faculty and graduate students
How can people boost resilience? Karen Reivich shares some key insights
Colleen O’Neill named vice president for finance and treasurer
Hoop dreams with Ethan Roberts
Chapters of Change: The blossom of Penn’s professional schools in the 19th century
Hurrah for the Red and the Blue
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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
Exhibits
Ancient Egypt in Watercolors
On view for the first time in the U.S., this exhibition—blending arts with archeology—features century-old watercolors documenting Egyptian tomb paintings. Created by Egyptian artist Ahmed Yousef during Penn Museum excavations in the early 1920s, these paintings vividly record elaborately decorated funerary chapels from Dra Abu el-Naga, a key burial ground of elite officials and priests during Egypt’s New Kingdom (ca. 1550–1070 BCE). Included with Museum admission.
Ends November 1, 2026
Special Events
Witchhazel Tour
The Morris Arboretum & Garden’s witchhazel collection is one of the largest in the country. Participants will join an experienced guide to discover many varieties of these plants known for adding bursts of color and fragrance to the winter landscape. Participants will meet at the Welcome Center. Free with general admission.
Talks
A World Between Hope and Despair
Margot Wallström, Sweden’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Perry World House Distinguished Visiting Fellow, will reflect on the rising pressures facing democratic governance across the European continent and their implications worldwide. She will examine how issues such as immigration, new security threats, and heightened cost of living are shaping voter behavior and political priorities, including the role of mis- and disinformation in undermining public trust and democratic institutions. 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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