For students in Engineers Without Borders at Penn, collaborating with Gambian farmers to design an irrigation system is a way to both address food insecurity in the smallest country in mainland Africa and apply their knowledge from the classroom in the real world.
Safe driving habits boosted by insurance plans that reward safe driving
Popular insurance programs offering discounts for driving safely can reduce risky behaviors like speeding and hard braking, Penn Medicine researchers show.
Leveraging AI to help stroke survivors recover speech abilities
Doctoral student Shreya Parchure and her team evaluated the usefulness of an AI tool for personalizing speech therapy for patients with post-stroke aphasia.
A roundup of the latest awards for various faculty members and students in the School of Arts & Sciences, Penn Carey Law, Annenberg School for Communication, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
In Becky Friedman’s English course Shakespeare in Love, undergraduate students analyze language, genre, and adaptation in the Bard’s plays through the lens of love.
Uncovering predictors for post-surgical chronic opioid use
Penn Nursing researchers have identified several key predictors of whether a patient will continue using opioids long after the typical recovery period from surgical procedures.
Penn’s ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer, turns 80
Housed in the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School Building, ENIAC—the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose computer—launched in 1946. ENIAC’s ability to be reprogrammed to solve a wide range of complex numerical problems was revolutionary and laid the foundation for modern digital systems.
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.
A seminar from Middle Eastern medievalist Paul Cobb gets students talking and thinking about the ‘disorienting’ storytelling in ‘One Thousand and One Nights.’
This presentation will discuss ways to name, address, and overcome some of the rhetorical and narrative barriers to the framing of persistently unjust differences in health outcomes. The speaker, Derek Griffith, the Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Population Health and Health Equity University Professor, will argue that medical practitioners and researchers have an essential role to play in advancing this work. Free and open to the public. Register to attend.
This book celebration event will feature PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts in conversation with Marcia Chatelain about Roberts’ memoir “The Mixed Marriage Project,” which illuminates the experience of growing up in an interracial family in 1960s Chicago as well as a daughter’s journey to understand her parents’ marriage—and her own identity. 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.
Flexibility and rising costs are keeping mothers at work
Poorer families are getting squeezed even harder by slower wage growth, persistent inflation, and rising child care costs, says Corinne Low of the Wharton School.
