Penn researchers in the Mitchell Lab are modifying lipid nanoparticles, the delivery vehicles for mRNA therapies, to make them more potent, precise, and better tolerated.
Working with the team at the Center for Living Donation, Penn Medicine’s benefits director Jen Brady felt confident enough to donate a kidney to her mother and run the Boston Marathon several months post-surgery.
SP2 Class of 2026 student Nature Hu explains how qualitative insight coupled with strong data analysis can effectively shape policy and resource allocations.
Three questions to guide thoughtful, human-centered AI use in the classroom
Ahead of an AI Month panel showcasing AI use in the classroom at Penn, Catherine Turner of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation poses three questions instructors can consider while planning AI-informed assignments and activities.
Reflecting on 100 years of television, Christopher Yoo of Penn Carey Law provides an overview of TV’s shifting legal landscape, and Barbara Kahn of the Wharton School shares how branding has evolved.
Penn’s newest supercomputer is transforming research
Penn’s first campus-wide HPC and AI cluster, ‘Betty,’ is expanding access to powerful computing, enabling groundbreaking projects, and fostering new collaborations across disciplines.
As investor withdrawals and liquidity concerns rattle a $1.8 trillion market, Wharton’s Itay Goldstein explains how private credit works, why experts are uneasy, and what it could mean for your finances.
Named after the pioneering architect Julian Francis Abele, a 1902 Penn graduate, the Abele Lecture re-centers the voices of Black practitioners and practitioners of color who are reshaping the built environment. This year’s lecture will feature Hazel Ruth Edwards, an award-winning educator, planner, and scholar who will examine how campuses are planned, remembered, and sustained, including what they reveal about belonging, power, and possibility within the built environment. Free and open to the public. Register to attend.
In this talk, Weitzman alum and Gensler co-CEO Jordan Goldstein will explore how human-centered AI can augment storytelling and spatial design to help organizations navigate complex challenges and create adaptive, meaningful experiences. The talk will be followed by a Q&A. Lunch will be provided. 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.
Are you truly bad with money? How understanding your brain can help your finances
To save more money, Wendy De La Rosa of the Wharton School suggests making decisions before big moments, such as tax breaks or months with extra paychecks.
