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A new paradigm for cooling on New York’s Governors Island
A heat scan being taken on a human under a cooling cover structure

Image: Chris Perez

A new paradigm for cooling on New York’s Governors Island

The KlimaKover team includes architects, researchers, and builders from Penn, Henning Larsen, AIL Research, SKANSKA who are addressing urban cooling by adapting a radiant cooling system to an architectural-scale application that uses far less energy than traditional AC.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Understanding the Fed’s inflation outlook
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C.

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Understanding the Fed’s inflation outlook

Ahead of the Fed’s latest economic outlook, Penn Today spoke with Wharton’s Patrick Harker and Penn Arts & Sciences’ Harold Cole to unpack inflation, interest rates, and labor trends.

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Kiran Musunuru: Editing genes to save lives

Kiran Musunuru: Editing genes to save lives

Kiran Musunuru develops gene-based therapies to improve the health of patients with heart disease and correct genetic changes in people affected by ultra-rare conditions.

What stiffening lung tissue reveals about the earliest stages of fibrosis
Donia Ahmed prepares tissue for imaging.

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What stiffening lung tissue reveals about the earliest stages of fibrosis

A Penn Engineering team has targeted the lung’s extracellular matrix to better understand early fibrosis by triggering the formation of special chemical bonds that increase tissue stiffness in specific locations, mimicking the first physical changes that may lead to lung fibrosis.

Melissa Pappas

2 min. read

A generative AI model that designs new antibiotics
Pranam Chatterjee in his lab at Penn Engineering.

The lab of Pranam Chatterjee (pictured), in collaboration with the lab of César de la Fuente, developed and validated a new “diffusion model” that can generate antibiotic candidates the same way AI creates images.

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A generative AI model that designs new antibiotics

A research team at Penn Engineering has developed and validated a new ‘diffusion model’ that can generate antibiotic candidates the same way AI creates images.

Ian Scheffler

2 min. read

OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Google vary widely in identifying hate speech
Two people work on coding at computer.

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OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Google vary widely in identifying hate speech

Neil Fasching and Yphtach Lelkes of the Annenberg School for Communication have found dramatic differences in how large language models classify hate speech, with especially large variations for language about certain demographic groups, raising concerns about bias and disproportionate harm.

2 min. read