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Connecting Latin American fiction through infrastructure and transit
Sizing up Pennsylvania’s creative workforce
A study of the ancient built environment
Three ways to reframe boredom
Reflecting on Jane Austen, 250 years after her birth
Performing Bach and considering his world
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Preserving the past
A design fall studio brings interdisciplinary thinking to Philly’s historic and commercial core
Planning ahead in an age of longevity
Iran at a crossroads
How ‘um’ and ‘uh’ shape impressions
Bridging urban studies and psychology to tackle housing instability
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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
Understanding the Fed’s inflation outlook
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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
Weighing sustainability of real vs. fake Christmas trees
How one molecule keeps plants youthful
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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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Safeguarding health for animals and people
RTW Foundation donates $8M to reimagine physician training in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine
Can aging be treated at the cellular level?
From calves to canines, Penn Vet shines at Pennsylvania Farm Show
Health in Philly, past and present
Sniffing out cancer: Trained dogs can detect hemangiosarcoma by scent
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Awards and accolades for Penn faculty
5 things: A conversation with Spike Lee
A balancing act with Carly Oniki
Penn Forward: Sarah Rottenberg applies design thinking for strategic University initiative
Awards and accolades for Penn faculty
20 breakthroughs of 2025
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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
Perry World House: Four perspectives on the Middle East ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas
Penn receives $10M to strengthen urban research locally and globally
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
The Messiness of Independence
Emily Sneff, a leading expert on the history of the Declaration of Independence, will share insights into the first printings of the U.S.’s founding document. This talk will explore the process of declaring independence and draw connections to the core themes and material focus of the Common Press’s America 250 programming. Now virtual only. RSVP for the zoom link.
Journeys in Afro-Diasporic Women’s Modernisms
Rosie Poku, a joint Ph.D. candidate in Africana Studies and comparative literature & literary theory at Penn, will present “The Performance of Translation: Journeys in Afro-Diasporic Women’s Modernisms,” exploring her research into Black women’s diasporic writings and performances of the early 20th century. Free and open to the Penn community. Register to attend.
Readings
New Poems for the New Year
Open to the public, this program will feature a reading by members of Suppose an Eyes, a poetry workshop sponsored by Kelly Writers House. Suppose An Eyes, founded in 1999 and one of the longest-running poetry workshops in the Philadelphia area, provides a supportive place for poets of all ages, backgrounds, and experiences to share and improve their writing.
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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