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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
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’
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Exploring the history of North American pastels
New faculty explore how individual minds influence group behavior
Blending empathy and analytics
Researching 17th century Caribbean freedom and empire
Cutting through the cluttered media landscape
How does medicine come to be?
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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
Dorothy Roberts’ memoir on interracial families in America
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The Artemis II mission: Reflections on an ever-evolving relationship with space exploration
Caitlyn Chen’s path to becoming a physician-scientist
Shujie Yang harnesses sound to build the next generation of microrobotic medicine
Building better delivery vehicles for medicine
Topology helps build more robust photonic networks
Turning peels into pavers: How Penn designers turn food scraps into biodegradable building materials
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Penn’s newest supercomputer is transforming research
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
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How ‘The Pitt’ lands with a Penn emergency department nurse
How estrogen in the brain impacts stress and trauma response
Preventing the spread of a deadly virus to Pennsylvania’s rabbits and hares
A kidney for her mom, a marathon for herself
Making older homes a safer haven for young families
Amplifying family-centered, culturally respectful nursing care
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Penn fourth-year awarded Davis Projects for Peace grant
Three questions to guide thoughtful, human-centered AI use in the classroom
Penn fourth-year chosen as Gaither Junior Fellow
Four third-years receive Goldwater Scholarships
Awards, accolades and appointments for the Penn community
Five from Penn named 2025 AAAS Fellows
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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
Prithvi Parthasarathy: Using AI to improve health care delivery in rural India
Understanding Japan’s snap elections
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
Americanization Politics and the Yiddish Press
Ayelet Brinn, assistant professor of Judaic studies at the University of Hartford, will explore how anxieties about American Jewish belonging in the years surrounding World War I and World War II shaped the development of the Yiddish press, as well as how that history has been remembered in retrospect. Part of America 250 at Penn programming, this talk is free and open to the public. Register to attend.
Special Events
Copyright, AI, and the Future of Creative Works
With over 50 lawsuits pending in the U.S. looking at how copyright law applies to AI, the law in this space is being written right now. In this AI Month at Penn workshop, participants will explore what is happening in these cases, how the law may develop, and the potential implications for both the development of new AI technologies and for creative works in a future where AI is widely incorporated into the tools that people use to produce and distribute their works. Free and open to Penn students, faculty, and staff. Register to attend.
Talks
AI Month: Privacy and Artificial Intelligence
Ryan Calo, founding co-director of the University of Washington Tech Policy Lab, will draw upon historic and contemporary examples to explore the obvious and not-so-obvious ways AI threatens privacy, including what society can do about it. 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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