


Penn salutes graduates at University’s 269th Commencement

Penn professor and colleages develop Aurora AI
Study sheds light on why for-profit hospitals have worse nursing and patient outcomes
Loss of Medicare Part D subsidy linked to higher mortality among low-income older adults
Lillian Miller: May grad turned Penn Ph.D.

World’s first patient treated with personalized CRISPR gene editing therapy through CHOP and Penn Med collaboration

Class of 2025 Ivy Day Ceremony

‘Scattered Earth, Sounded Depth’
Featured Events
Bees, Butterflies, and Blooms: A Pollinator Paradise
Morris Arboretum staff will kick off the “Bees, Butterflies, and Blooms” summer-long exhibition at the Hummingbird Hut. Participants will learn about the connections between plants and pollinators, including the hummingbird, as well as how they pollinate and how to attract them to homes. Free with Penn ID.

Shrubs For All Seasons
This tour will focus on evergreen and deciduous shrubs for home gardeners. Shrubs provide showy foliage, vibrant blooms to attract pollinators, and structures to be used as natural screens. Participants can discover new and old-time favorite shrubs. Free with Penn ID.

The Ellipse Garden with Edgeworthia shrub (foliage in bottom mid-left), Hibiscus (bottom, mid-right), and Baptisia (bottom left corner). (Image: Rachel Browne)

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.

Nourish to Flourish

Penn lends support to Rebuilding Together Philadelphia effort repairing 11 local homes in two days

Supporting a community for learning, research, and thriving

AI Across Disciplines event highlights the power of ‘breadth and connectivity’ at universities
Penn in the News
Is empathy required in the age of AI — or can we just outsource it?
Lynn Wu of the Wharton School says that machine-generated data produces worse content than human data when it’s fed into an AI algorithm, causing the output of generative AI to gradually degrade when it relies solely on itself.
The White House’s tax bill will consider SALT (again). What’s that mean for you?
Kent Smetters of the Wharton School says that protective zoning privileges existing homeowners at the expense of new development, which leads to increased property taxes in some higher-income states.
New studies show what’s at stake if Medicaid is scaled back
A study co-authored by Eric Roberts of the Perelman School of Medicine finds that patients who lose access to Medicaid and Medicare coverage fill fewer prescriptions on average and are more likely to die, depending on their conditions and drug costs.
American women are about to inherit $50 trillion. What is the Great Wealth Transfer?
According to a 2021 analysis by researchers at the Wharton School, Americans are most likely to inherit between the ages of 56 and 65.