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Exploring ‘One Thousand and One Nights’
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
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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
A design fall studio brings interdisciplinary thinking to Philly’s historic and commercial core
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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?
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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Green Lab’s Freezer Inventory Project: Turning a ripple of change into a wave
Raindrop-formed ‘sandballs’ that erode hillsides tenfold
How to incentivize problem solving in groups
Physics of foam strangely resembles AI training
Why are icy surfaces slippery?
How plants ‘hedge their bets’ for better reproductive outcomes
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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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The small, high-tech beanie protecting premature babies
1 in 4 young people using psychotropic drugs are taking dangerous combinations
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
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Weitzman Hall, renewed and expanded, celebrated at opening ceremony
Exploring the Declaration through ink and type
Penn named top producer of 2025-26 Fulbright students
The Office of Ethnic and Religious Interests (Title VI), one year in
Awards and accolades for Penn faculty
Penn receives national distinction for community engagement
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Understanding Japan’s snap elections
An innovative AI tool to improve health care delivery in rural India
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
Well-Being Pop-Up: Real-time Resilience
Hosted by Penn HR, this 15-minute conversation will focus on how to quiet mental chatter. Attendees will practice a strategy to strengthen focus and confidence. Penn staff can register to attend.
Talks
Brian Stelter: Media Analysis at Risk?
The Center for Media at Risk will host a colloquium with CNN Worldwide chief media analyst Brian Stelter will reflect on the changing role of media analysis in an era of rapid news cycles, platform disruption, and declining public trust. Stelter will raise pressing questions about the boundaries of journalistic self-scrutiny and the future of media analysis as a mechanism for public accountability. Free and open to the public. Register to attend.
Plastic, Microplastics, and Human Health
Participants in this session will learn about emerging research into the health impact that microplastics have living tissue, including the solutions within our reach to help reduce plastic-related harm. The conversation will feature Megan J. Wolff, executive director of P-SNAP, a network of physicians and scientists who speak, write, and testify on plastics and human health. 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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