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Connecting Latin American fiction through infrastructure and transit
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
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How ‘um’ and ‘uh’ shape impressions
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?
Understanding the Fed’s inflation outlook
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
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How plants ‘hedge their bets’ for better reproductive outcomes
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
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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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RTW Foundation donates $8M to reimagine physician training in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine
Safeguarding health for animals and people
Can aging be treated at the cellular level?
From calves to canines, Penn Vet shines at Pennsylvania Farm Show
Health in Philly, past and present
Sniffing out cancer: Trained dogs can detect hemangiosarcoma by scent
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5 things: A conversation with Spike Lee
A balancing act with Carly Oniki
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
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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
Theater
Penn Live Arts: Alcoléa & cie
In a Philadelphia debut, “Right in the Eye” celebrates Georges Méliès—a cinema pioneer and the inventor of special effects—by adding an original, multilayered score to complement and interpret 12 of his otherwise silent films. In this movie-concert by France’s Alcoléa & cie, a trio of musicians will play a range of 50 instruments, from the classics to the obscure, evoking the technical and playful approach that defined Méliès’ work. Students can receive a discount with Penn ID.
Exhibits
Phil Parmet: Haitian Revolution
Part of America 250 at Penn programming, this exhibit will feature select photographs by Academy Award-winning cinematographer and Penn alumnus Phil Parmet, who documented life in Haiti after the fall of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier in 1986. This display captures both the "resignation, disappointment, and sadness" and the "strength and determination" felt by the Haitian people during this pivotal time in their history. Free and open to the public.
Ends May 22, 2026Manuscript Studies Interest Group: Recipes
The Manuscript Studies Interest Group is a regular meeting for people who want to get up close and personal with a variety of handwritten materials from regions across the globe, including the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Western Europe. Penn students, faculty, and staff are invited to contribute their insights, discuss their work, and share the joy of manuscripts. 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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