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Graduates are ready to serve and engage at home and abroad

Class of 2025 Ivy Day Ceremony

AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

American Dental Association and Penn Dental Medicine announce first Living Guideline Program in oral health
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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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Lillian Miller: May grad turned Penn Ph.D.

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
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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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Study sheds light on why for-profit hospitals have worse nursing and patient outcomes

Neurobowl reimagines how the next generation of neurologists is trained

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
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Penn salutes graduates at University’s 269th Commencement

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
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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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4th Structural Biology Symposium
This annual symposium provides attendees with an opportunity to connect with peers, discuss emerging research, and explore the latest advancements in structural biology. Register to attend.
Setting Boundaries: A Restorative Practices Perspective
This 90-minute training will help situate the setting and maintenance of personal and professional boundaries within the Restorative Practices framework. Participants will learn to define what boundaries are and practice strategies to communicate them effectively. This program is for Penn staff.
Conflict Resolution
Participants will learn the different types of conflict and how to use several tools to help address conflict in healthy and productive ways, among other best practices. Attendees will practice using these tools to increase confidence in managing professional and interpersonal conflict. This program is for Penn staff.
Federal Government Updates
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Supporting Our Community
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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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