1 in 4 young people using psychotropic drugs are taking dangerous combinations
A Penn Medicine study shows that the use of medicines to address mental health or behavioral conditions climbed from 2001 until 2020, but the increase has led to safety concerns.
Framework for assessing trustworthiness of scientific research
The systems-level framework for evaluating the trustworthiness of research findings is published by a group of researchers, including Annenberg Public Policy Center director Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
A seminar from Middle Eastern medievalist Paul Cobb gets students talking and thinking about the ‘disorienting’ storytelling in ‘One Thousand and One Nights.’
A typesetting workshop at Penn’s Common Press invited participants to reinterpret lines from the Declaration of Independence as part of the Typography of Independence project and Penn’s America 250 programming.
Raindrop-formed ‘sandballs’ that erode hillsides tenfold
Penn geophysicists and colleagues have uncovered Earth-sculpting processes that result from the formation of snowball-like aggregates they call ‘sandballs.‘ Their findings provide fundamental insights into erosion and will broaden scientific understandings of landscape change, soil loss, and agriculture.
Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality
Penn Medicine researchers find that earplugs work better in protecting sleep from traffic noise, challenging the widespread use of ambient sound machines and apps marketed as sleep aids.
Finding Common Ground: A Panel with Health Communicators
This panel will bring together expert direct-to-public communicators for a conversation about practical, real-world-tested strategies to improve the communication and uptake of public health recommendations, including vaccinations. Free and open to the public.
Cultural Production and the Authenticity Industries
Penn alum and media scholar Michael Serazio reveals the story of America’s obsession with ‘authenticity’ through a panoramic, behind-the-scenes tour of the professionals, strategies, and practices working to keep it "real." Free and open to the public. Register to attend.
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 Forward’s Access, Affordability, and Value co-chairs on creating opportunity
As co-chairs of Penn Forward’s Access, Affordability, and Value working group, Sara Bachman, dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice, and Patrick Harker, a professor and dean emeritus of the Wharton School, discuss breaking down barriers and opening pathways.
A conversation with Penn Forward’s Global Opportunity and New Markets co-chairs
In a Q&A with Ezekiel Emanuel and Megan Ryerson, co-chairs of the Global Opportunity and New Markets working group for Penn Forward, the duo discuss the charge of their group, where they are in the process, and leaning into global engagement.
Through Penn First Plus, students unlock potential and purpose
Providing first-generation and limited-income students with a comprehensive array of support, Penn First Plus equips undergraduates for success during and after their time at Penn.
The eighth annual Penn Local Business Exchange brought together entrepreneurs, city officials, and University buyers to swap insights and build relationships.
AI agents could change your life—if they don’t ruin it first
Speaking about AI, Chris Callison-Burch of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says, “The fact that you can interact with your computer in this totally new way and the fact that you can build anything, almost anything that you can imagine—it’s incredible.”
