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Penn named top producer of 2025-26 Fulbright students
An innovative AI tool to improve health care delivery in rural India
Investigational blood biomarker panel may improve detection of pancreatic cancer
How to incentivize problem solving in groups
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Literature and medicine
An inside look at the history of television
The professor who moonlights as a songwriter
Connecting Latin American fiction through infrastructure and transit
Sizing up Pennsylvania’s creative workforce
A study of the ancient built environment
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Exploring ‘One Thousand and One Nights’
Why students leave community college
New report unpacks the crises facing American journalism and offers solutions
Early modern literature in the Black Atlantic world
Seven things to know about ‘Common Sense’
Preserving the past
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Dorothy Roberts’ memoir on interracial families in America
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
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Raindrop-formed ‘sandballs’ that erode hillsides tenfold
How to incentivize problem solving in groups
Why are icy surfaces slippery?
Physics of foam strangely resembles AI training
How plants ‘hedge their bets’ for better reproductive outcomes
Lifesaving breakthrough in bacterial behavior
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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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Rewriting the rules of lung repair
Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality
Investigational blood biomarker panel may improve detection of pancreatic cancer
‘Nudging’ both patients and providers boosts flu vaccine numbers
PennSTAR delivers critical care in the air, across the region
Moving closer to ‘true’ equine IVF for clinical use
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Exploring the Declaration through ink and type
Penn named top producer of 2025-26 Fulbright students
Awards and accolades for Penn faculty
The Office of Ethnic and Religious Interests (Title VI), one year in
Penn receives national distinction for community engagement
Awards and accolades for Penn faculty
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An innovative AI tool to improve health care delivery in rural India
Understanding Japan’s snap elections
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
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
A Daring Vision: Jewish Collectors and Contemporary Art
This conversation between Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, inaugural faculty director of the Arthur Ross Gallery, and Penn alum Ruth Fine, will examine the remarkable impact of Jewish-American collectors on the evolution of the contemporary art scene since 1905, when Gertrude Stein and her brothers began collecting works by Picasso and Matisse. This talk, free and open to the public, will take place in the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy Forum. Register to attend.
Exhibits
Philadelphia and Bicentennial Discontent
Part of America 250 at Penn programming, this exhibit will showcase materials from various groups who have taken strident critiques of a wholly celebratory approach to American history and the mythos of the founding fathers. The exhibit includes posters, buttons, pamphlets, photographs, and other ephemeral materials—many of them produced by people of color, student organizations, and grassroots groups. Free and open to the public.
Ends May 15, 2026Early Childhood Development in a Changing Climate
Jorge Cuartas, an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University whose work intersects developmental psychology, economics, and public health, will share insights from his research into early childhood development amid a warming climate. He will present evidence and reflections for policy and practice. Free and open to the Penn community.
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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