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Class of 2026 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prize winners announced
(Top left) Connie Ni, Darlene Leohansson, and Chloe Chang, Darlene Leohansson. (Top right) Justin Wang, Janine Haros, and Eric Lee. (Bottom left) Margaret Zhu; (bottom right) Nhlanhla Mavuso.

The recipients of the 2026 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prizes: (Top left) Connie Ni, Darlene Leohansson, and Chloe Chang. (Top right) Justin Wang, Janine Haros, and Eric Lee. (Bottom left) Margaret Zhu; (bottom right) Nhlanhla Mavuso.

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Class of 2026 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prize winners announced

Four prize-winning teams will design and implement post-graduation projects that make a positive, lasting difference here in Philadelphia and beyond.

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A new hub for AI-driven RNA research
from left: Drew Weissman, Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research; Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering; Daeyeon Lee, Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the facility’s director; Susan Marqusee, head of NSF’s Biological Sciences Directorate; David F. Meaney, Solomon R. Pollack Professor in Bioengineering and Penn’s Vice Provost for Research; Pennsylvania State Senator Frank A. Farry.

(From left) Drew Weissman, Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research; Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering; Daeyeon Lee, Russell Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the facility’s director; Susan Marqusee, head of NSF’s Biological Sciences Directorate; David F. Meaney, Solomon R. Pollack Professor in Bioengineering and Penn’s Vice Provost for Research; and Pennsylvania State Senator Frank A. Farry.

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A new hub for AI-driven RNA research

Penn’s newest collaborative institution is the U.S. National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence-driven RNA BioFoundry (NSF AIRFoundry) which uses AI to improve, accelerate, and scale the design, manufacture, and delivery of RNA.

Ian Scheffler

The performing arts at Penn: process, practice, and purpose
A student holding a composition sheet of music notes during while practicing their group performance.

A student holding a composition sheet filled with music notes while practicing their group performance.

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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.

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Gravity follows Newton and Einstein’s rules, even at cosmic scales
An artist's depiction of two galaxies, side-by-side, swriling at different velocites.

The cosmic microwave background, the faint afterglow of the Big Bang that fills all of space, passes through massive galaxy clusters whose motion slightly alters the light, allowing scientists to measure how fast the clusters are moving toward one another and test how strongly gravity pulls across the largest distances in the universe.

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Gravity follows Newton and Einstein’s rules, even at cosmic scales

By tracking galaxy clusters hundreds of millions of lightyears apart, Penn physicist Patricio Gallardo and collaborators find that the laws of gravity written by Newton and Einstein still hold, leaving little doubt that invisible dark matter exists.

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Penn’s Open Enrollment 2026-2027
People on Locust Walk in the summer.

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Penn’s Open Enrollment 2026-2027

Open Enrollment, an annual opportunity to make changes to health plans, life insurance, and flexible spending accounts, begins April 20.

From Penn Human Resources

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A new swarm AI project takes on safety at scale
Ph.D. student, Hongrui Zheng (left), and Rahul Mangaharam (right) flying drones.

Ph.D. student Hongrui Zheng (left), and Rahul Mangaharam, ESE professor and principal investigator of xLAB, with the drones used in this research.

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A new swarm AI project takes on safety at scale

Researchers at Penn’s xLAB are collaborating on a multiyear project to study how large teams of physical AI agents can cooperate, compete, and act safely outside of software and in the real world.

Melissa Pappas

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Damon Centola named 2026 Guggenheim Fellow
Damon Centola

As director of the Network Dynamics Group and a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Centola’s research centers on social networks and behavior change.

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Damon Centola named 2026 Guggenheim Fellow

The Elihu Katz Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering, he is among the 223 people chosen for the Guggenheim’s 101st class of Fellows.

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