Penn student awarded Truman Scholarship
One School’s push for hosting and spearheading international fieldwork
Making ‘light’ work of computing
Improving science and care for early pregnancy loss
The science of winemaking
Coming up clutch with Jana Dweek
Weitzman externships in retrospect: Harisa Martinos
How a free medical telesimulation platform is saving children’s lives
Penn Medicine, CHOP team awarded Breakthrough Prize for developing gene therapy for inherited blindness
Fighting oral cancer with bioengineered chewing gum
Featured Events
AI Month: Education, Research, and Practice
This panel of Penn GSE experts will offer guidance to help educational institutions use AI responsibly and in ways that advance accessibility, innovation, and student success. This program is suitable for anyone interested in learning more about the intersection between AI and K-12 education.
11th Annual Career Pathways in Global Health
Free and open to the Penn community, this program will feature keynote speaker Mark Wolff, Morton Amsterdam Dean of Penn Dental Medicine, sharing insights and pathways into global health professions. Attendees will learn about the career trajectories and work lives of participating panelists regarding local and global public health research and practice. Register to attend.
Penn Global has announced the first recipients of the newly established Penn Global Dissertation Grants program, which provides up to $8,000 in funding to nearly a dozen Ph.D. students.
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.
Penn Forward: Turning vision into action
Four ways Penn Arts & Sciences is looking to the future
Students test one way to combat extreme heat in Philadelphia
Penn Forward’s Access, Affordability, and Value co-chairs on creating opportunity
Penn in the News
Sneaky gingivitis symptoms you shouldn’t ignore—plus why women over 50 are at higher risk
"At times, gingivitis can be ‘silent’ or subtle—surprisingly, it’s often painless until it progresses to an advanced state," warns Joseph P. Fiorellini of the School of Dental Medicine.
AI and the future of work
Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School discusses AI’s potential to replace workers and explores how past technological upheavals can help us navigate the transition.
This University of Pennsylvania lab is working on new ways to detect microplastics
"Our clothes are constantly shedding microplastic fragments that we can then breathe in," says Samantha McBride of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Two drugs stir hope for treatment of deadly pancreatic cancer
Robert Vonderheide of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on promising research on treatments of pancreatic cancer, saying, "We are having to tell ourselves that this is in fact unprecedented."