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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
Two 2025 project grants and a fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
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Exploring how disfluency influences interactions
Iran at a crossroads
Bridging urban studies and psychology to tackle housing instability
‘How the Cold War Broke the News’
Centering joy in AI development and implementation
One School, many schools of thought
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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?
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
Understanding the Fed’s inflation outlook
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Lifesaving breakthrough in bacterial behavior
Weighing sustainability of real vs. fake Christmas trees
How one molecule keeps plants youthful
Evolution at a molecular level
An ‘illuminating’ design sheds light on cholesterol
Understanding the climate record through objects
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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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At the 110th Pennsylvania Farm Show, Penn Vet and agriculture make for a winning partnership
Health in Philly, past and present
Sniffing out cancer: Trained dogs can detect hemangiosarcoma by scent
Penn Vet’s Total Hip Replacement Program helps heal dogs with hip dysplasia
Gene therapy ‘switch’ may offer non-addictive pain relief
Electronic medical records help save lives of HIV patients
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Penn Forward: Sarah Rottenberg applies design thinking for strategic University initiative
Awards and accolades for Penn faculty
20 breakthroughs of 2025
Two Penn students chosen as 2026 Marshall Scholars
Penn Forward’s Access, Affordability, and Value co-chairs on creating opportunity
Catch him if you can: Jared Richardson’s remarkable career
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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
Vectors and Climate Change
Part of the One Health@Penn Research Community Work in Progress Series, this session will feature Sara Cherry, John W. Eckman Professor of Medical Science at the Perelman School of Medicine, and Carol Sobotyk, assistant professor of diagnostic parasitology at Penn Vet, discussing vectors and climate change. A Q&A will follow the presentations. Open to the public. Register to attend.
Venezuela: Perspectives and Insight
Part of Penn Arts & Sciences’ long-running Knowledge by the Slice lunchtime series, this panel will feature faculty from the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies discussing recent developments following U.S. actions involving Venezuela. Pizza will be provided. Register to attend.
Special Events
The Rotunda: 25 Years of Arts, Culture, and Community
The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation will host a screening of “The Rotunda,” a new documentary by Philadelphia filmmaker Ellen Reynolds. The film captures the spirit of The Rotunda as a space for arts, culture, and community at Penn. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Rachel Wenrick, Penn’s inaugural executive director for the arts, featuring Gina Renzi, director of The Rotunda, and longtime staff members, community organizer Alice Wright and artist Alex Smith. Free and open to the public. Registration is requested but not required.
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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