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More than a year in as Annenberg dean, Sarah Banet-Weiser focuses on care and collaboration
Penn’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
Fruit fly development offers insights into condensed matter physics
Two Penn alums named 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholars
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How do you authenticate a long-lost Chopin waltz?
Perry World House student fellows explore global policy solutions
The law in the 19th-century American South
Forum addresses foreign policy priorities for the U.S.
More than a year in as Annenberg dean, Sarah Banet-Weiser focuses on care and collaboration
Jessica Varner on the long arc of built environment and its materials
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A conversation with Board Chair Ramanan Raghavendran
Penn Center for Innovation celebrates 10 years
Five from Penn recognized with Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Penn’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
Two Penn alums named 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholars
What’s That? Black squirrels
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Dorothy Roberts on reproductive rights and justice
What’s the future of cities?
The versatility of the JD/MPA degree
Power and possibility at the U.S. Supreme Court
Wharton MBA student is out of this world
The future of finance
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Developing a tiny anticancer weapon
The future of nursing care
Helping Korean Americans with end-of-life planning is her passion
Hospitals that serve more Black patients have poorer nurse staffing, study shows
Discovery links cellular structures to kidney cancer treatment outcomes
Brain research could help patients with paralysis move again
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Fruit fly development offers insights into condensed matter physics
Unlocking the brain: Peptide-guided nanoparticles deliver mRNA to neurons
How fungi make a key medicinal molecule
Robert Gifford’s breakthroughs in real-time system safety
Q&A: Dean Kumar and the ‘drone’ sightings
A lipid nanoparticle delivers an mRNA cure for preeclampsia
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Penn lays out ambitious new roadmap for climate and sustainability action
Penn’s Climate and Sustainability Action Plan 4.0 outlines sustainability goals for fiscal year 2025-29 and lays out Penn’s path toward carbon neutrality by 2042.
Upcoming Events
Talks
24th MLK Jr. Social Justice Lecture
Sociologist Orlando Patterson of Harvard will receive the 24th MLK Jr. Social Justice Award and will deliver a lecture.
Talks
Kristen Martin
Cultural critic Kristen Martin will discuss her narrative nonfiction book, “The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow.” The book describes the history of being an orphan in the U.S.
Special Events
Confabulation Lecture Night
The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation invites the public to join for a night of confabulated lectures based on artworks from the exhibition We Are Nature, featuring artworks from Penn's art collection. The short lectures will be developed in collaboration with Obvious Agency. No prior knowledge of the artworks is necessary.
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