The performing arts at Penn: process, practice, and purpose
In the vivid tapestry of performing arts groups at Penn, students prepare for their performances while simultaneously enriching their college experience.
Penn’s newest collaborative institution is the U.S. National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence-driven RNA BioFoundry (NSF AIRFoundry) which uses AI to improve, accelerate, and scale the design, manufacture, and delivery of RNA.
Penn Medicine student awarded a 2026 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Medical student Bayan Galal has received the scholarship, which provides graduate school funding for immigrants and children of immigrants to the United States.
Gravity follows Newton and Einstein’s rules, even at cosmic scales
By tracking galaxy clusters hundreds of millions of lightyears apart, Penn physicist Patricio Gallardo and collaborators find that the laws of gravity written by Newton and Einstein still hold, leaving little doubt that invisible dark matter exists.
The Artemis II mission: Reflections on an ever-evolving relationship with space exploration
Penn Today spoke with three Penn experts about the Artemis II crew’s use of social media during the mission, how space images are more than just pretty pictures, and why space continues to fascinate.
New faculty explore how individual minds influence group behavior
Linguist Marlyse Baptista, neuroscientist Nacho Sanguinetti, and humanities scholar Fritz Breithaupt were hired through MindCORE for research that fits into the theme of "interconnected minds."
Participants will learn how Penn Climate is amplifying climate research and education across the University’s 12 schools and various health systems, centers, and institutes. Guests will meet faculty and students leading transformational change on campus and take part in collaborative activities while discovering ways to get involved in Penn Climate programs and opportunities. Free and open to the Penn community.
Co-hosted by WHYY, the Kislak Center, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, this conversation will explore how the Declaration of Independence defined belonging by exclusion, including how communities labeled as outsiders have worked to claim rights, dignity, and opportunity. Participants will learn how ideals of “the people” have been challenged, resisted, and reshaped across generations. Part of America 250 at Penn programming, this event is 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.
Students test one way to combat extreme heat in Philadelphia
Third-year students Nafisa Bangura and Angelica Dadda expanded upon a multidisciplinary research endeavor to evaluate a reflective pavement coating as a tool to mitigate extreme heat. Their work may inform policy efforts to improve urban heat resilience.
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.
AIs have ‘personalities’—here’s how they affect you more deeply than you may realize
Steven Shaw and Gideon Nave of the Wharton School have documented what they call cognitive surrender, the tendency of people to adopt AI suggestions without critical scrutiny.
