Lioznyansky, Wu earn All-Ivy Honors on final day of Ivy League Championships Lioznyansky, Wu earn All-Ivy Honors on final day of Ivy League Championships First-year Simon Lioznyansky earned First Team All-Ivy and third-year Joseph Wu earned Second Team All-Ivy at the 2026 Ivy League Fencing Championships on Sunday, Feb. 8.
Framework for assessing trustworthiness of scientific research News Framework for assessing trustworthiness of scientific research The systems-level framework for evaluating the trustworthiness of research findings is published by a group of researchers, including Annenberg Public Policy Center director Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
1 in 4 young people using psychotropic drugs are taking dangerous combinations Image: Chinnapong via Getty Images News 1 in 4 young people using psychotropic drugs are taking dangerous combinations A Penn Medicine study shows that the use of medicines to address mental health or behavioral conditions climbed from 2001 until 2020, but the increase has led to safety concerns.
Green Lab’s Freezer Inventory Project: Turning a ripple of change into a wave 2025 graduate Srishti Jainapur recording the temperature on a freezer.(Image: Courtesy of Penn Climate) Green Lab’s Freezer Inventory Project: Turning a ripple of change into a wave The Freezer Inventory Project, launched in late 2023, aims to improve the efficiency of a major energy strain: ultra-low temperature freezers. 2 min. read
Weitzman Hall, renewed and expanded, celebrated at opening ceremony nocred News Weitzman Hall, renewed and expanded, celebrated at opening ceremony The Penn community gathered to celebrate the opening of Weitzman Hall, the Weitzman School of Design’s first new building in nearly 60 years.
Why students leave community college Penn GSE doctoral student Estefanie Aguilar Padilla conducting fieldwork at a community college. (Image: Courtesy of Penn GSE) Why students leave community college At Penn’s Graduate School for Education, doctoral student Estefanie Aguilar Padilla’s work with associate professor Rachel Baker reveals why students walk away—and how colleges can help them stay. 2 min. read
Dorothy Roberts’ memoir on interracial families in America Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Africana Studies, Law, and Sociology & Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights.nocred Dorothy Roberts’ memoir on interracial families in America Roberts’ new memoir, “The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family” is an exploration of race, identity, and family in America. 2 min. read
Exploring ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ Dr. Paul Cobb, center, looks on as students and library staff examine rare versions of “One Thousand and One Nights” in the Lea Library.nocred Exploring ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ A seminar from Middle Eastern medievalist Paul Cobb gets students talking and thinking about the “disorienting” storytelling in “One Thousand and One Nights.” 3 min. read
Rewriting the rules of lung repair Associate professor of biomedical sciences Andy Vaughan.nocred Rewriting the rules of lung repair Penn Vet’s Andrew Vaughan works to uncover why some lungs rebound and others have lasting damage, and how to change that. 2 min. read
Raindrop-formed ‘sandballs’ that erode hillsides tenfold High-speed laboratory images capture two distinct “sandball” shapes formed when raindrops strike dry, sloped sand and roll downhill. (Top) Peanut-shaped sandballs, where grains coat the surface of a liquid core. (Bottom) Donut-shaped sandballs, which densify into rigid, wheel-like structures with a hollow center, enabling far more efficient sediment transport than splash erosion alone.(Image: Daisuke Noto) Raindrop-formed ‘sandballs’ that erode hillsides tenfold Penn geophysicists and colleagues have uncovered Earth-sculpting processes that result from the formation of snowball-like aggregates they call “sandballs.” Their findings provide fundamental insights into erosion and will broaden scientific understandings of landscape change, soil loss, and agriculture. 3 min. read