How will the workplace change in 2025? Image: iStock/piranka How will the workplace change in 2025? The Wharton School’s Peter Cappelli expects incremental changes in the workplace this year, a continuation of bigger trends that began during the pandemic.
Study shows drop in life expectancy in the Gaza Strip Displaced Palestinians outside their tents near the seaside in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip in January 2025, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.(Image: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via AP) Study shows drop in life expectancy in the Gaza Strip A collaborative team of international researchers estimate that between Oct. 2023 and Sep. 2024 compared to pre-war levels, life expectancy in the Gaza Strip almost halved.
Breakthroughs in gene editing and expression control with mvGPT Sherry Gao, Tyler Daniel (pictured), and their coauthors have developed a new tool that can simultaneously and independently edit multiple genes and regulate their expression.(Image: Bella Ciervo) Breakthroughs in gene editing and expression control with mvGPT Penn Engineers have created a gene editing tool that can address different genetic diseases in the same cell.
The motor driving Penn’s biomedical research Michael Ostap is the interim senior vice dean and chief scientific officer of the Perelman School of Medicine.(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine Magazine) The motor driving Penn’s biomedical research For nearly three decades, interim senior vice dean and chief scientific officer of the Perelman School of Medicine Michael Ostap has investigated how molecules such as myosin feel force, in an effort to understand how cellular mutations cause disease.
Nelson Flores looks back on decades of bilingual education Image: iStock/diego_cervo Nelson Flores looks back on decades of bilingual education Flores, a professor in Penn’s Graduate School of Education, uncovers why Latinx students have tested as underperforming in academic language for decades due to education policy and societal constraints.
A less clumpy, more complex universe? A less clumpy, more complex universe? Researchers combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe’s evolutionary history and found that it may have become “messier and complicated” than expected in recent years.
The social structures that shape AI Image: iStock/Userba011d64_201 The social structures that shape AI There’s more hype than ever around artificial intelligence, but Assistant Professor of Sociology Benjamin Shestakofsky says it’s important to fully examine how the new technology fits into broader society.
Why the most successful companies are scalable Why the most successful companies are scalable Giant companies stay on top because they’re both more productive and scalable than their competitors, according to research from Wharton and the School of Arts & Sciences. 2 min. read
How do you authenticate a long-lost Chopin waltz? Jeffrey Kallberg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music and interim dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, plays the newly found Chopin waltz and other music from the composer on a Érard piano donated by alum Yves Gaden.nocred How do you authenticate a long-lost Chopin waltz? Jeffrey Kallberg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music and interim dean of Penn Arts & Sciences, has helped to verify the first major manuscript from the famous composer since the 1930s.
Developing a tiny anticancer weapon Image: iStock/Bahaa_Aladdin Developing a tiny anticancer weapon Penn Medicine researchers have developed tumor-homing nanosized particles that trigger cancer cell self-destruction in preclinical tests.