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Where economic modeling meets real-world legislation
Penn fourth-year Yash Rajpal named 2026-27 Luce Scholar
Penn announces new partnership with Service to School to support veteran and military-affiliated applicants
Penn experts propose a tobacco playbook for food policy
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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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Matthew Levendusky on civics, partisan politics, and teaching public opinion
How markets can help society adapt to climate change
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
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Where economic modeling meets real-world legislation
A look inside the political economy of early America
Wharton faculty on love, finance, AI, and the Olympics
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
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When bone behaves like a sponge
Mapping the expanding cosmos: Dark Energy Survey unveils clearest picture yet
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
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Robots that can see around corners using radio signals and AI
Engineers sharpen gene-editing tools to target cystic fibrosis
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
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Penn experts propose a tobacco playbook for food policy
David Holt is making cancer visible
Who, What, Why: Katelyn Candido on improving surgical procedures and keeping health care human-first
She helps patients find their words to cast a spell on cancer
Novel plant-based approach to a better, cheaper GLP-1 delivery system
First CRISPR-based platform to pinpoint leukemia drivers
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2025 President’s Engagement Prize recipient: LensBright
Joshua Beeman named Penn’s VP for IT and University CIO
2025 President’s Prize recipient: Nourish to Flourish
Hard work with Simone Sawyer
Penn fourth-year Yash Rajpal named 2026-27 Luce Scholar
2025 President’s Sustainability Prize recipient: Nirby
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Expert viewpoints on the Iran war
Solar solutions for farmers in The Gambia
Understanding Japan’s snap elections
Prithvi Parthasarathy: Using AI to improve health care delivery in rural India
Bringing COP30 from Brazil into Penn classrooms
Florencia Polite: Healer, educator, advocate
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.
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Penn Live Arts: Rennie Harris Puremovement
Recognized by The New Yorker as “the most brilliant hip-hop choreographer in America,” Rennie Harris, the Penn Live Arts 2025-26 artist-in-residence, will present the world premiere of Losing My Religion, an exploration of the world’s constant social, economic, and political turmoil through the lens of street dance and hip hop. This performance is part of American 250 at Penn programming and the Penn Live Arts series “America Unfinished.” Students can receive a discount with Penn ID.
Ends March 21, 2026Exhibit: ‘in case of fire, speak’ (Through July 6)
This exhibition frames the making of a collaborative performance by the Martha Graham Dance Company and PHILADANCO! alongside rarely seen images from modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham’s 1938 work, “American Document,” and its enduring question, “What is an American?” The mixed-materials display explores Graham’s work alongside Philadelphia dance company PHILADANCO!’s decades-long commitment to preserving and advancing the work of Black artists. Free and open to the public.
Ends July 6, 2026
Special Events
Symposium: Institute for Infectious & Zoonotic Diseases
Hosted by the Penn Vet Institute for Infectious & Zoonotic Diseases, this annual symposium will bring together scientists, clinicians, veterinarians, and public health experts to exchange ideas on the emergence, spread, and control of infectious and zoonotic diseases. Free and open to the public. Register to attend.
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Penn's Title IX Resolution with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights
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