Penn Forward: Sarah Rottenberg applies design thinking for strategic University initiative
Rottenberg, executive director of the Integrated Product Design Program and an adjunct associate professor in the Weitzman School, collaborated with three Penn Forward working groups to optimize idea development.
In a Perry World House conversation, ‘Venezuela and U.S. Policy After Maduro,‘ international affairs experts shared insights into oil, the Venezuelan economy, and what to expect next in the region.
Penn marks 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and Symposium
The Day of Service on Jan. 19 includes multiple volunteer and educational opportunities honoring Martin Luther King Jr., with more than 30 activities and celebrations continuing through Feb. 6.
How interdisciplinary teaching becomes climate action
Penn graduate students are learning that net zero is a systems challenge requiring fluency across disciplines, and why interdisciplinary teaching is climate action—including how it builds the human capital the clean energy transition demands.
Penn Vet’s Total Hip Replacement Program helps heal dogs with hip dysplasia
Total hip replacement surgery outcomes at Penn Vet have been greatly improved through state-of-the-art technological advances and synergistic programming.
While big tech and market forces get much of the blame for the decline of news media, Barbie Zelizer makes the bold claim in her new book that problematic journalistic practices that became entrenched during the Cold War are responsible for the current issues facing journalism, such as inadequate funding and declining public trust.
Penn biophysicist Arnold Mathijssen uncovers how and why E. coli manage to swim upstream causing infections in challenging places such as the urinary tract, respiratory system, and catheters, pointing to new strategies for designing safer, more effective biomedical tools and treatments.
Ahead of the main event on July 4, 2026, marking the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Penn students, faculty, and staff will have multiple early opportunities to engage with America’s 250th anniversary.
Centering joy in AI development and implementation
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.
During this drop-in Open Studio at the Common Press, participants will learn to print a broadside—a single-sided print meant for public display—about how the pace of time impacted life in the Revolutionary era. Part of Penn Libraries’ America 250 programming, this event is free and open to the public. Penn ID or photo ID required. Register to attend.
Perry World House invites the Penn community to a conversation with His Excellency Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, former UN Deputy Secretary-General, who will discuss how the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s closure in 2025 marked the end of an era in global development, threatening the livelihood of millions of vulnerable people. The conversation will primarily focus on future directions in global development—and how the world might do better on this front. 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.
Banks ready battle plans to save their credit card businesses
Itamar Drechsler of the Wharton School says a 10% cap on credit card interest rates could make as many as 80 percent of customers unprofitable to credit card issuers at current lending rates and credit limits.
Proposed Limerick data center draws questions over environmental impact and cost
John Quigley of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy in the Weitzman School of Design says data-center construction projects should be evaluated for their impact on air quality, noise pollution, and light pollution.
