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‘Scattered Earth, Sounded Depth’
For dual architecture degree candidate Kelvin Vu, design begins with the body
Q&A: The first American pope
Melding loves of ice skating and children’s media
Concrete panels as teaching tools, materials testing, and outdoor sculptures
Sean Burkholder and Eva Del Soldato awarded the 2025-26 Rome Prize
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How the Annenberg School connected all the dots for Naima Small
What behavioral strategies motivate environmental action?
Exploring inflation and economics through the lens of history
Philosopher in residence
Benjamin Nathans wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
Penn 2025 graduate awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship
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Wharton graduates first Global Executive MBA cohort
Brewing business: A Wharton undergrad who manages Penn’s student-run café
Aiming for a ‘holistic representation’ career as dual-degree Law and SP2 grad
Teaching crisis negotiation
Wharton podcast series tackles taxation
Wharton’s Dinan Hall restoration celebrated
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Armoring CAR T cells to take on cancer
Penn ATLAS shares 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
For a better cup of coffee, look to physics
Baseball’s ‘magic mud’
A simple way to boost math progress
New high-definition pictures of the early universe
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AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
Penn fourth-year and recent alum named 2025 Hertz Fellows
The soul of an artist, the mind of a mathematician
New 3D-printing enables color-changing, stress-responsive materials for smart sensing, displays, and robotics
Penn engineers first to train AI at lightspeed
Improving AI and machine learning
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World’s first patient treated with personalized CRISPR gene editing therapy through CHOP and Penn Med collaboration
American Dental Association and Penn Dental Medicine announce first Living Guideline Program in oral health
A mothers’ meetup like no other for families formed through uterus transplant
The power of translation services in patient care
Promising inhibitor combination for hard-to-treat leukemia subtypes
Enhanced CAR T cell therapy offers new strategy for lymphoma
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President Jameson provides a ‘snapshot of Penn’s momentum’
Class of 2025 Ivy Day Ceremony
By the Numbers: Class of 2025
Know before you go: Commencement 2025
Graduates are ready to serve and engage at home and abroad
The Class of 2025 celebrates Baccalaureate
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Penn Washington names Celeste Wallander as inaugural executive director
Penn leaders-turned-diplomats reflect on American statecraft and foreign policy
Turning bicycles into an engineering study tool
Using climate modeling to guide global economic and political decisions
How climate change impacts food security
Innovation in climate education
Natural Sciences
Can surface fractures on Earth, Mars, and Europa predict habitability on other planets?
Geophysicist Douglas Jerolmack has used the mathematical framework developed for understanding fracture patterns on Earth to survey two-dimensional fracture networks across the solar system, which could offer insights into detecting potentially habitable environments on other planets.
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