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Soon-to-be-graduate hopes to deliver primary care to rural communities
2025 Projects for Progress recipients announced
Philosopher in residence
First new subtype of Castleman disease discovered in 45 years

Penn breaks ground on Gail P. Riepe Center for Advanced Veterinary Education

Move-out: Tips for a cleaner, greener, easier experience

Benjamin Nathans wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
Featured Events
New Alumni Orientation and Senior Carnival
Participants will kick off Senior Week at the New Alumni Orientation and Senior Carnival, hosted by Alumni Relations and the Office of the President. The event will include games, food, and information about how to stay involved with Penn after graduation.

Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom
Juneteenth—commemorating the end of slavery in the United States—is a day to celebrate freedom, heritage, and community. Ahead of June 19, this festival will feature live performances, DJ sets, immersive storytelling, and hands-on activities for all ages. Participants can support Black-owned businesses at a community marketplace and attend the Juneteenth Honors Program. Free and open to the public.

A Juneteenth parade in Philadelphia, 2019. (Pre-pandemic image: Tippman98x/Shutterstock)

In Principle and Practice
Penn’s strategic framework
Penn’s guiding principles are the University’s enduring values and distinctive strengths: anchored, inventive, interwoven, and engaged. The practices support and strengthen Penn’s core educational mission.
At Penn Today, we focus on some of the ways the University is putting this framework into action. From student, faculty, and staff profiles to research updates and event coverage, Penn Today highlights the latest examples of the University’s principled approach to excellence.

Penn lends support to Rebuilding Together Philadelphia effort repairing 11 local homes in two days

Supporting a community for learning, research, and thriving

AI Across Disciplines event highlights the power of ‘breadth and connectivity’ at universities

Evaluating large language models for cyberbullying behavior
Penn in the News
5 questions about mRNA vaccines, answered
Penn scientists figured out how to get foreign mRNA into human cells without it degrading first, enabling researchers to develop it for use in vaccines.
When ChatGPT broke an entire field: An oral history
Christopher Callison-Burch of the School of Engineering and Applied Science shares his reaction to experimenting with the GPT-3 beta in 2020, the precursor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT generative AI model.
Farmers are using IoT to take the guesswork out of growing
As director of the Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture research center, Cherie Kagan of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is uniting university faculty, industry professionals, and farmers to support the development of precision agriculture IoT technologies.
Lovelace’s theory in practice: Our learnings from 2000 gen AI projects
Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says that some business leaders may be missing out on the economic potential of AI.