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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
Exploring ‘One Thousand and One Nights’
Literature and medicine
The professor who moonlights as a songwriter
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How does medicine come to be?
Analyzing the news with AI
Who, What, Why: Kara Butler on museum education
Matthew Levendusky on civics, partisan politics, and teaching public opinion
How markets can help society adapt to climate change
Exploring Black America: A historian’s unique path of inquiry
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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
Dorothy Roberts’ memoir on interracial families in America
Is there an AI bubble and what happens if it bursts?
Using data to drive criminal justice reform
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When bone behaves like a sponge
Mapping the expanding cosmos: Dark Energy Survey unveils clearest picture yet
How ancient attraction shaped the human genome
No brain, no gain: Neuronal activity enhances benefits of exercise
Green Lab’s Freezer Inventory Project: Turning a ripple of change into a wave
Raindrop-formed ‘sandballs’ that erode hillsides tenfold
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Robots that can see around corners using radio signals and AI
Engineers sharpen gene-editing tools to target cystic fibrosis
Beating the heat: Designing cooling for bodies in motion
Penn’s ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer, turns 80
Chris Callison-Burch: 25 years of AI innovation
An AI tool to help better understand medical visits
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Mikhaidia Miller: First-gen perspectives on nursing, health equity, and what’s next
The big reveal: Penn Medicine’s Match Day 2026
Targeting tumor supporting cells: Advancing CAR T success in pancreatic cancer
A stiff defense: Rethinking gum disease
Penn experts propose a tobacco playbook for food policy
David Holt is making cancer visible
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How a postwar research push changed Penn
2025 PEP, PIP, and PSP winners: Where are they now?
2025 President’s Innovation Prize recipient: Sync Labs
2025 President’s Engagement Prize recipient: LensBright
2025 President’s Prize recipient: Nourish to Flourish
Joshua Beeman named Penn’s VP for IT and University CIO
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Expert viewpoints on the Iran war
Solar solutions for farmers in The Gambia
Understanding Japan’s snap elections
Prithvi Parthasarathy: Using AI to improve health care delivery in rural India
Bringing COP30 from Brazil into Penn classrooms
Florencia Polite: Healer, educator, advocate
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
Talks
Penn Climate Seminar: New Experiments in Public Power
Shelley Welton, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Law and Energy Policy at Penn Carey Law and the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, will discuss and assess the recent creation of state-owned clean energy companies in New York State and the U.K., considering their theory, politics, and promise alongside their early implementation challenges and limits. Free and open to the Penn community. Register to attend.
Substance Use Disorder and Medicaid Change
This conference will focus on strategies to preserve access to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment amid federal policy changes affecting Medicaid coverage. Policymakers, researchers, and practitioners will explore ways to help advance evidence-based SUD treatment under the new rules ahead, including how work requirements, eligibility changes, and state budget pressures will shape care delivery and patient outcomes. Free and open to the public. Register to attend.
Extreme Temperatures & Pediatric Care Outcomes
In this webinar, Stephanie Mayne, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn, will present results from a pilot study—Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health—examining the association of extreme temperatures with missed pediatric preventive visits. 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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