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    • Evaluating large language models for cyberbullying behavior
    A portrait of Helen Jin at Amy Gutmann Hall.

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    Helen Jin, a doctoral student at Penn Engineering, is project lead for the Brachio Lab’s AI cyberbullying capability case study.

    Evaluating large language models for cyberbullying behavior

    In the Brachio Lab, doctoral students at Penn Engineering probe AI models for signs of cyberbullying capabilities. This emerging problem with the rise of AI may pose challenges in areas like business, education, and public health.

    5 min. read

    From Korean policing to international law enforcement
    Jaehyung Ahn stands in a large room.

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    Jaehyung Ahn will return to his work as a South Korean police officer after graduation, aiming to work with international agencies. 

    From Korean policing to international law enforcement

    Penn Carey Law student Jaehyung Ahn shares his goals and experiences while earning an LLM degree.

    2 min. read

    Announcement

    An update to the Penn community on federal funding

    Last week, we learned through various news outlets that the Trump Administration was expected to suspend $175M in federal contracts awarded to Penn, citing the participation of a transgender athlete on the women’s swimming team in 2022. Previously, on February 6, 2025, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) notified Penn that it had initiated a directed investigation under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the federal statute prohibiting sex discrimination, into the University’s intercollegiate athletics participation policies.

    I write today to provide an update on these two important and related matters.

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    • From the Archives: Photograph of Penn’s first female law graduate
    43 people sitting and standing on the steps of College Hall

    (Image: Broadbent and Taylor, courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Archives and Records Center)

    University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1883 group portrait on the steps of College Hall in 1883. Caroline Burnham Kilgore, the first female graduate of Penn Law is top row, center. The photo is a gift of Peter Conn of Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences.

    From the Archives: Photograph of Penn’s first female law graduate

    Among those in the photo of the Penn Law School Class of 1883 is Caroline Burnham Kilgore, the first women to gain admission to and graduate from the law school. She became the first female lawyer in Pennsylvania.

    3 min. read

    A simple way to boost math progress
    Angela Duckworth lecturing a class with a white board.

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    “Our results showed that simple, low-cost nudges can help teachers support student progress in math,” says Penn psychology professor Angela Duckworth.

    A simple way to boost math progress

    Researchers from Penn’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative and their collaborators conducted a megastudy to investigate whether low-cost nudges–informed by behavioral science–could help teachers accelerate student progress in math.

    3 min. read

    Featured Events

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    • Boosting Health Through Economic Policy
    Mar 28

    Boosting Health Through Economic Policy

    This event, sponsored by Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, will involve a panel of experts discussing federal and state policies that improve economic stability and opportunity, as well as their effects on public health. Participants will learn about evidence-based policies that foster healthier communities.

    Virtual

    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

    students walking in front of the u.s. capitol

    Last spring, Penn students took Amtrak to Washington every Friday for the How Washington Really Works class, held at the Penn Biden Center, across from the U.S. Capitol.

    Indigenous Voices in the Archives
    Mar 28

    Indigenous Voices in the Archives

    Drawing on lessons learned from collaborating with Native American and First Nations peoples, Emily Jean Leischner, in-resident researcher at the Kislak Center for 2024-2025, will share stories and snippets from her initial survey of Indigenous knowledge in the archives—and propose directions for their future stewardship and engagement with the Indigenous communities it came from. Register to attend.

    Virtual

    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

    Man shakes hands with member of Ojibwe tribe of Wisconsin, an another man in headdress looks on. Eamon De Valera, the president of Ireland, shakes hands with members of Ojibwe tribe in Wisconsin during a 1919 tour of the United States.
    https://in-principle-and-practice.upenn.edu/
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    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.

    ‘JeepyTA’ has entered the chat
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    Rachel Liu, a first-year doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education.

    ‘JeepyTA’ has entered the chat

    At Penn’s Graduate School of Education, the Penn Center for Learning Analytics is piloting an AI teaching assistant that fields students’ syllabus questions, generates assignment feedback, and eases the stress of instructors’ and TAs’ emailing schedules.

    Celebrating five years of excellence at VinUniversity
    Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson in a lab examining a piece of equipment.

    (Image: Courtesy of VinUniversity)

    Celebrating five years of excellence at VinUniversity

    Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson visited VinUni in Hanoi, Vietnam, to commemorate the university’s fifth anniversary and Penn’s seventh year of allyship. He delivered a lecture about how excellent universities advance society.

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    • CA-125 levels vary by patient race at ovarian cancer diagnosis
    HealthDay

    CA-125 levels vary by patient race at ovarian cancer diagnosis

    A study by Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues found that Black and American Indian patients are less likely to have elevated cancer antigen levels at ovarian cancer diagnosis.

    Should you get a measles booster? Here’s what to know
    The Washington Post

    Should you get a measles booster? Here’s what to know

    If vaccination records are not available, a person can get a blood test to see whether they have antibodies against certain viral infections like measles, says Joseph Teel of the Perelman School of Medicine.