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Reimagining a shelter as a supportive space for childhood
Connecting Black culture, music, and community with the built environment
The performing arts at Penn: Process, practice, and purpose
Ani Liu: Motherhood, microplastics, and her multimedia works on display
The art of retelling ancient stories: A Q&A with Steven Weitzman
Music, friendship, and a podcast on the side
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Why young voters tune out
Emmy Keogh is buttering up her post-graduation plans
Sacrifice versus suffering: Examining unheard stories of the past
Equipping students and nonprofits for impact
How population changes are impacting primary education worldwide
Founding-era research and the social context of public institutions
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Tracing the evolving law and business of TV
Five things to know about private credit
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
Allison Hoffman: Connecting health care policy to people’s lives
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When the Schuylkill swallowed the city
Making ‘light’ work of computing
The science of winemaking
What happens when an iceberg melts?
Gravity follows Newton and Einstein’s rules, even at cosmic scales
The Artemis II mission: Reflections on an ever-evolving relationship with space exploration
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Innovating computer chips to run more efficiently
A robotic solution for safer tree trimming
Using AI to help predict cardiac arrests
Using AI to surface unreported GLP-1 side effects in Reddit posts
Lingjie Liu: Where computer graphics, computer vision, and AI meet
A new swarm AI project takes on safety at scale
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Specialized RNA molecules could counter ALS neurodegeneration
The fight to save a feisty little lamb
Immune linked high risk diabetic kidney disease found
Empowering unhoused patients through comprehensive eye care
Biomarkers help crack the code on saving more equine lives
Pet first aid training comes to the rescue
News
Making paper for the Declaration’s anniversary
Awards and accolades for faculty and graduate students
Sixth cohort of Projects for Progress announced
Three from Penn elected to the American Philosophical Society
Penn Reading Days in photos
Awards and accolades for Penn faculty and graduate students
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One School’s push for hosting and spearheading international fieldwork
Financing resilience for ocean economies
Learning from the practitioners of statecraft
Spring Intercultural Ventures explore geopolitics and economic change on the ground
Expert viewpoints on the Iran war
Solar solutions for farmers in The Gambia
Technology
Beating the heat: Designing cooling for bodies in motion
Dorit Aviv, director of Weitzman’s Thermal Architecture Lab, studies how humans, technology, and design intersect, paving the way for the development of novel approaches to cooling people efficiently.
Upcoming Events
Special Events
Spring Blossoms Tour
Visitors will celebrate the joys of spring as the garden and trees bloom. The vibrant flowers change on a weekly basis as the season unfolds, bringing bursts of color and fragrance. Free with Penn ID.
Coalitional Feminism & American Jewish History
Lana Dee Povitz, associate professor of history and Jewish studies at Middlebury College, will examine the importance of coalitional feminism in understanding some of the institutional transformations underway in contemporary American Jewish life. Part of America 250 at Penn programming, this talk is free and open to the public. Register to attend.
Talks
Boosting Infrastructure Investment for Global Cities
Susan Wachter, co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research (IUR) and William Glasgall, Volcker Alliance Public Finance Adviser and Penn IUR Fellow, will speak with a panel of global public finance experts about how global cities and other subnational governments could adopt attributes of America’s municipal market structure. The conversation will cover how a credit-driven culture may help meet the demands of population growth and climate change. 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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