Penn Board of Trustees votes to appoint J. Larry Jameson President and extend his term through June 2027

Jameson has served as Interim President since December 2023. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and Dean of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine.

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On the court with Stina Almqvist

Kayla Gay looking into a microscope in a lab.

From lab to classroom: The Center for Engineering MechanoBiology

Changing neighborhoods, changing times

Tracing the connections between Chinese high-speed rail and electric vehicle sales

FY24 Economic Impact Report shows Penn helps drive $37 billion through the region’s economy

Dolores Albarracín honored with BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Survey shows patients with disabilities less likely to feel respect from doctors

Eco-friendly rare earth element separation: A bioinspired solution to an industry challenge

The story of the famed Salt Lake Tabernacle Organ

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Combining AI and artmaking for youth well-being

Through a community-led partnership project, graduate student Eileen Feng and an interdisciplinary, cross-school team are working with local youth to tailor an AI-supported platform for healing through creative arts.

Brandon K. Baker ・March 7, 2025

Taylor Brothers, Aravind Krishnan, and Rashmi Acharya at Project HERO workshop.

Expanding on a legacy of heart health education

Fourth-year Aravind Krishnan, the inaugural Sarah Katz Award recipient, is working to help shelter residents in Philadelphia better monitor their health.

Erica Moser ・March 6, 2025

A fourth-year student’s aim for common humanity and purpose

After finishing a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics, fourth-year Bryan Suh will become a commissioned officer in the Marine Corps.

Kristina García ・March 5, 2025

Can surface fractures on Earth, Mars, and Europa predict habitability on other planets?

Geophysicist Douglas Jerolmack has used the mathematical framework developed for understanding fracture patterns on Earth to survey two-dimensional fracture networks across the solar system, which could offer insights into detecting potentially habitable environments on other planets.

Nathi Magubane ・March 4, 2025

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Penn fourth-year Annabelle Jin named 2025-26 Luce Scholar

Annabelle Jin, a fourth-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences, is one of 16 recipients selected by the Henry Luce Foundation to be a 2025-26 Luce Scholar.

Louisa Shepard ・March 4, 2025

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Campus & Community

FY24 Economic Impact Report shows Penn helps drive $37 billion through the region’s economy

The University, Philadelphia’s largest private employer, generates economic development across the city, Commonwealth, and region.

Peter Cook and J. Larry Jameson in front of a portrait of Julian Abele.

Campus & Community

Celebrating the architectural legacy of Penn’s first Black architecture graduate

At a gathering at Eisenlohr Hall, a portrait of renowned architect Julian Abele and a series of his paintings were unveiled, formally recognizing his design contributions to one of campus’ iconic structures.

Members of Penn’s African Health Clinic.

Health Sciences

Care across cultures: Penn Medicine African Health Clinic

For the last two years, the Perelman School of Medicine has partnered with the African Family Health Organization to offer weekly family-medicine/primary care clinics for recent immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean.

Penn students and Sayre high school students wading in a river in Cobbs Creek.

Campus & Community

Rivers in a changing world

A new Academically Based Community Service class brings Penn and William L. Sayre High School students together to learn environmental science and engineering.

Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson in a lab examining a piece of equipment.

Campus & Community

Celebrating five years of excellence at VinUniversity

Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson visited VinUni in Hanoi, Vietnam, to commemorate the university’s fifth anniversary and Penn’s seventh year of allyship. He delivered a lecture about how excellent universities advance society.

Ramanan Raghavendran engages in conversation at a conference table.

Campus & Community

A conversation with Board Chair Ramanan Raghavendran

One year since becoming the Chair of the Board of Trustees, Raghavendran discusses Penn’s advancements from the past year, the purpose of a values statement, and Penn’s strengths as a cultivator of American leadership.

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Campus & Community

Introducing the Office of Religious and Ethnic Inclusion (Title VI)

The office, which is now open, is co-led by Steve Ginsburg and Majid Alsayegh. Deborah Frey will serve as chief investigator.

Dean Katharine Strunk looking ahead in front of the GSE building.

Education, Business, & Law

Penn GSE dean on leading for impact, working to ‘meet and make the moment’ for education

Katharine Strunk, dean of the Graduate School of Education, began her tenure in July 2023. This week, she announced the School’s strategic vision, Together for Good.

Campus & Community

Combining AI and artmaking for youth well-being

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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Archaeological science, hands on

The Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, a joint endeavor between Penn Arts & Sciences and the Penn Museum, celebrates 10 years of teaching students how to interpret the past in an interdisciplinary context.

Aaron Levy and students gathered around a table filled with images.

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Through Literature of Care course, a curriculum of compassion

Literature of Care, a course offered every fall in the School of Arts & Sciences, explores medical humanities and the role storytelling plays in patient care.

Campus & Community

Collaborating on agricultural climate solutions, from plants to animals

The new Penn Plant Adaptability and Resilience Center brought together faculty speakers from five schools for its Climate Solutions for the Living World symposium.

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Education, Business, & Law

‘JeepyTA’ has entered the chat

At Penn’s Graduate School of Education, the Penn Center for Learning Analytics is piloting an AI teaching assistant that fields students’ syllabus questions, generates assignment feedback, and eases the stress of instructors’ and TAs’ emailing schedules.

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Campus & Community

Penn Center for Innovation celebrates 10 years

The University’s nexus for technology transfer supports researchers in their innovative efforts, from CAR T to mRNA advancements that have dramatically reshaped the world.

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Forum addresses foreign policy priorities for the U.S.

Experts offered predictions and insights for leaders in the incoming administration at a Perry World House forum.

The exterior of the Vagelos building lit up with dramatic lighting.

Science & Technology

An illuminating celebration to a brighter, greener future

Members of the Penn community celebrated an energy research milestone: the unveiling of the new Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology.

3/14

Weingarten Center Disability Symposium

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Participate in disability programming, engage in educational activities, and learn more about disability issues at the 23rd Annual Weingarten Center Disability Symposium. Registration is free for Penn staff, faculty, and students.

All Day

Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce St.

3/15

Holi CultureFest! 2025

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Penn Museum collaborates with the South Asia Center at Penn for the 2025 CultureFest! for Holi. Attendees can enjoy traditional storytelling, colorful art-making, dynamic live music, and captivating dance performances, culminating in a color throw.

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Penn Museum, 3260 South St.

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The practice of art collection as a collaboration

As part of an undergraduate course, Penn faculty and students curated an Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition of works from the Neumann family’s extensive collection of modern and contemporary art.
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01/07

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The practice of art collection as a collaboration

As part of an undergraduate course, Penn faculty and students curated an Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition of works from the Neumann family’s extensive collection of modern and contemporary art.
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01/07

Illustration of a person walking to a building in a city, one side is abandoned, the other side is revitalized.

Education, Business, & Law

What’s the future of cities?

Penn Interim President J. Larry Jameson at the podium with P. Roy and Diana T. Vagelos, Ramanan Raghavendran and Vijay Kumar.n

Science & Technology

An illuminating celebration to a brighter, greener future

Five pictures of Penn employees volunteering.

Campus & Community

Penn staff make the Philadelphia area a better place through side gigs

Campus & Community

Penn Center for Innovation celebrates 10 years

The University’s nexus for technology transfer supports researchers in their innovative efforts, from CAR T to mRNA advancements that have dramatically reshaped the world.

Yahoo! News

Why researchers are sure that the COVID vaccine saved millions of lives

According to a 2024 survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, a growing number of Americans mistakenly believe that COVID vaccines have been responsible for thousands of deaths.

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Newsweek

Will Recession Spark a Housing Market Crash? What to Know

Susan Wachter of the Wharton School says that a recession is likely to initially dampen housing demand due to insecurity about job prospects, although the decline of mortgage rates would likely prompt buying.

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Popular Science

China’s high-speed rail linked to boosted EV adoption

A paper from the Penn Institute for Economic Research at the School of Arts & Sciences found that China’s decade-long push for electric vehicle adoption coincided with the country’s expansion of high-speed rail.

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Fortune

Trump’s chief economist has a blueprint to force countries to pay for tariffs without reigniting inflation, but he says the path to success is narrow

Itay Goldstein of the Wharton School says that the effects of a breakdown in trust between trading partners will become harder to control as the U.S. attempts to overhaul a global trade system developed over decades.

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CNN

How Trump’s trade war could quickly spiral out of control

Kent Smetters of the Wharton School says that it’s a toss-up whether the U.S. economy stumbles into a recession this year.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

At Penn, a whiteboard and ‘hustle’ turned a 2-6 start into a trip to the women’s Ivy tournament

The women’s basketball team earned the fourth and final seed in the upcoming Ivy tournament with leading stats from first-year Katie Collins and new “hustle plays” by coach Mike McLaughlin.

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Bloomberg

Banks Share Private Information to Snag Debt Trades, Study Says

A collaborative study by Christina Zhu of the Wharton School suggests that global banks are giving top clients private information to win corporate-bond trading business.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Penn president J. Larry Jameson gets the ‘interim’ removed from his title and a term extension

J. Larry Jameson will serve as Penn’s president through June 2027, featuring remarks from board chair Ramanan Raghavendran.

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USA Today

If a big inheritance is your retirement plan, don't get your hopes up

According to a 2021 analysis by researchers at the Wharton School, people are most likely to inherit between the ages of 56 and 65.

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Boston Globe

What happens to a ‘college town’ when the college closes? In Vermont, a wealthy liquor magnate has a vision

Anthony Sorrentino of the Office of the Executive Vice President likens the precarity facing rural college towns that have lost their college to the aftermath of a coal mine or factory closing.

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Weingarten Center Disability Symposium

Holi CultureFest! 2025

Explaining Your Research

Robert R. Marshak Public Lecture

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