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A study of the ancient built environment
Penn Vet’s Total Hip Replacement Program helps heal dogs with hip dysplasia
Penn marks 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and Symposium
New video dataset to advance AI for health care
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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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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
Exploring Philadelphia’s petrochemical past
How climate change affects migration
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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?
Deepfakes, digital doubles, and the law: Jennifer Rothman on protecting identity in the AI era
Understanding the Fed’s inflation outlook
The Wharton School launches Master of Science in Quantitative Finance with $60M gift from Bruce I. Jacobs
News
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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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
Addressing the psychological impacts of inflammatory bowel disease
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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
Children’s Bookmaking and Storytime
The Penn Reads Literacy & Children’s Art Project presents a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service event, “Imagine A World...!” Children ages 3-8 can participate in a theatrical storytime experience, explore a unique Penn library, and create a book to take home. Storytellers, librarians, teachers, and library staff will guide participants. Register to attend.
Special Events
Reimagining Illumination: Light in Artist’s Books
Part of Reimagining Illumination, a series designed to interrogate and expand the concept of illumination (i.e., the use of light) in books and manuscripts, this workshop will focus on the many ways that modern artists make use of light in their book creations, including transparencies, reflections, and electric light. Open to the public.
Special Events
Reimagining the Future of Global Development
Perry World House invites the Penn community to a conversation with His Excellency Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, former UN Deputy Secretary-General, who will discuss how the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s closure in 2025 marked the end of an era in global development, threatening the livelihood of millions of vulnerable people. The conversation will primarily focus on future directions in global development—and how the world might do better on this front. 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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