Penn physicists led by Bo Zhen have created hybrid light-matter particles that interact strongly enough to compute, pointing toward ultrafast, low-energy optical AI hardware.
The Biochemical Engineering of Wine course provides a real-world application of engineering principles, teaching students about the science behind the processes involved with making wine.
The fourth-year on the women’s squash team discusses the Quakers’ national championship-winning season. Dweek clinched the Howe Cup for the Red & Blue by winning the decisive match in straight sets.
Five from Penn elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Mark G. Allen, Sara Cherry, Provost John L. Jackson, Jr., Michael E. Mann, and Duncan Watts are recognized for their contributions to the applied, biological, social, natural, physical, and behavioral sciences.
Penn Medicine, CHOP team awarded Breakthrough Prize for developing gene therapy for inherited blindness
Jean Bennett, Albert Maguire, and Katherine High have been honored for their trailblazing work on the first FDA-approved gene therapy for an inherited condition.
Fighting oral cancer with bioengineered chewing gum
Research led by Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell shows that antiviral and antibacterial chewing gums reduce the levels of three microbes linked to worse outcomes in oral cancers, paving the way for more effective and affordable therapies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
