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Coming up clutch with Jana Dweek
Penn Medicine, CHOP team awarded Breakthrough Prize for developing gene therapy for inherited blindness
Voting is linked to living longer
Five from Penn elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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The performing arts at Penn: process, practice, and purpose
Ani Liu: Motherhood, microplastics, and her multimedia works on display
The art of retelling ancient stories: A Q&A with Steven Weitzman
Music, friendship, and a podcast on the side
Who, What, Why: Alicia Meyer on the wonders of the Kislak Center
Studying Shakespeare through the lens of love
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Weitzman externships in retrospect: Harisa Martinos
Voting is linked to living longer
Damon Centola named 2026 Guggenheim Fellow
Exploring the history of North American pastels
New faculty explore how individual minds influence group behavior
Blending empathy and analytics
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Tracing the evolving law and business of TV
Five things to know about private credit
Where economic modeling meets real-world legislation
A look inside the political economy of early America
Wharton faculty on love, finance, AI, and the Olympics
Allison Hoffman: Connecting health care policy to people’s lives
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The science of winemaking
Making ‘light’ work of computing
What happens when an iceberg melts?
Gravity follows Newton and Einstein’s rules, even at cosmic scales
The Artemis II mission: Reflections on an ever-evolving relationship with space exploration
Caitlyn Chen’s path to becoming a physician-scientist
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Where computer graphics, computer vision, and AI meet
A new swarm AI project takes on safety at scale
René Vidal: Taking AI to the next level
Penn’s newest supercomputer is transforming research
Robots that can see around corners using radio signals and AI
Engineers sharpen gene-editing tools to target cystic fibrosis
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Pet first aid training comes to the rescue
How a free medical telesimulation platform is saving children’s lives
Blood test predicts kidney failure risk to Black Americans years before onset
Fighting oral cancer with bioengineered chewing gum
Penn Medicine, CHOP team awarded Breakthrough Prize for developing gene therapy for inherited blindness
A new hub for AI-driven RNA research
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Penn student awarded Truman Scholarship
Coming up clutch with Jana Dweek
Five from Penn elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
A spring outlook on campus
Awards, accolades, and honors across the Penn community
For rowing’s Cole Riedinger, leadership is about responsibility
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One School’s push for hosting and spearheading international fieldwork
Financing resilience for ocean economies
Learning from the practitioners of statecraft
Spring Intercultural Ventures explore geopolitics and economic change on the ground
Expert viewpoints on the Iran war
Solar solutions for farmers in The Gambia
Technology
Beating the heat: Designing cooling for bodies in motion
Dorit Aviv, director of Weitzman’s Thermal Architecture Lab, studies how humans, technology, and design intersect, paving the way for the development of novel approaches to cooling people efficiently.
Upcoming Events
Music
Penn Chorale
Penn Chorale is a vocal ensemble that sings a variety of choral music, with emphasis on works from the late 20th and 21st centuries. Open by audition to all members of the Penn community, the ensemble rehearses in Rose Recital Hall. The group performs in the St. Mary’s Church in Hamilton Village. This performance is free and open to the public.
Special Events
Contemporary Frontiers in Jewish Life & Thought
This two-day symposium hosted by the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies will feature scholars discussing contemporary perspectives in Jewish life and thought. Free and open to the public. Register to attend.
Ends April 28, 2026
Talks
AI Month: Global Human Agency in the Era of AI
This discussion will convene an interdisciplinary group of leaders for dialogue about how AI is rapidly reshaping civic life, economic systems, and global governance, as well as the need for human-centered spaces that examine what AI can and should do. 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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