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Who, What, Why: Alicia Meyer on the wonders of the Kislak Center
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
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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?
The Wharton School launches Master of Science in Quantitative Finance with $60M gift from Bruce I. Jacobs
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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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Novel plant-based approach to a better, cheaper GLP-1 delivery system
First CRISPR-based platform to pinpoint leukemia drivers
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
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Historian, scholar, and best-selling author Michael Beschloss to speak at Penn’s 270th Commencement
Four ways Penn Arts & Sciences is looking to the future
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
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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
Global Discovery Series: A Flood of Pictures
As part of the interactive Global Discovery Lecture Series featuring Penn professors sharing new and innovative research, Michael Leja, James and Nan Wagner Farquhar Professor Emeritus of History of Art, will explore when and how pictures—including illustrations in books, pamphlets, and newspapers; photographs on cards; posters and broadsheets; paintings displayed in theatrical venues, etc.—began to permeate daily life in the U.S. Leja will focus on how the widespread circulation of pictures reshaped a culture accustomed to printed and spoken words.
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Corruption and Anti-Corruption in an Age of Disruption
This Perry World World panel will examine the current state of global anti-corruption efforts, including how today’s corruption affects global democracy, whether current efforts to combat corruption—like sanctions—help or exacerbate problems, and steps that governments and civil society can take to push back on corrupt actors worldwide. Free and open to the public. Register to attend.
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AI + Us: Series Kickoff
Part of the new AI + Us series from Penn AI and the Data Driven Discovery Initiative, this free event will explore how AI is shaping human life and what it means for everyone. Hosted by Bhuv Jain, Penn professor of physics and astronomy, and Wharton professor of marketing Stefano Puntoni will discuss the development of AI as a turning point in the history of our species and how we must think carefully about the impact that we want AI to have on our lives. He will share two ideas about how AI can be developed to support human flourishing. Must be 21+ 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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