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Delving into quantum dots
Seven vials filled with liquid water and quantum dot semiconductors.

Quantum dots are not just any nanoparticles. Often described as artificial atoms, these nanometer-sized semiconductor crystals possess unique attributes largely governed by their size, which chiefly dictates how they interact with light.

(Image: iStock / Tayfun Ruzgar)

Delving into quantum dots

Christopher B. Murray shares his excitement, thoughts, and knowledge on quantum dots, a nanoparticle that just earned his Ph.D. advisor the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
National Academy of Medicine elects five new members from Penn 
Top row, from left to right: Kurt Thomas Barnhart, Christopher B. Forrest, and Susan L. Furth. Bottom row, left to right: Desmond Upton Patton and Robert H. Vonderheide.

Top row, from left to right: Kurt Thomas Barnhart, Christopher B. Forrest, and Susan L. Furth. Bottom row, left to right: Desmond Upton Patton and Robert H. Vonderheide.

(Images: Courtesy of Penn Medicine; Desmond Patton image by Eric Sucar)

National Academy of Medicine elects five new members from Penn 

Kurt T. Barnhart, Christopher B. Forrest, Susan L. Furth, Desmond Upton Patton, and Robert H. Vonderheide are among 100 new Academy members elected this year, one of the highest honors in health and medicine.
How these Penn researchers are using AI to make health care better
A scan of a human body analyzed by AI tools.

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How these Penn researchers are using AI to make health care better

The future of medicine can successfully incorporate artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT through collaborations with physicians and software developers. However, one limitation with AI remains: emotional intelligence.

Alex Gardner

Stevens Center unveils app made for teens, by teens
High school senior Robert King uses a laptop at the Stevens Center.

Robert King, a Big Picture High School student, utilizes the Stevens Center Program as his internship placement for course credit.

(Image: James Blocker, Shira Yudkoff Photography)

Stevens Center unveils app made for teens, by teens

For over a year, 35 high school students who are interns at the Center developed an app that helps college-bound adolescents calculate the cost of higher education.

From Wharton Stories

Celebrity chefs Amanda Freitag and Michael Solomonov discuss culinary diplomacy
Lauren Bernstein, Michael Solomonov, Michael Weisberg, and Amanda Freitag pose in front of a Perry World House sign.

At Perry World House, (left to right) Lauren Bernstein, founder and CEO of The Culinary Diplomacy Project, Zahav Chef Michael Solomonov, Perry World House Interim Director Michael Weisberg, and celebrity chef Amanda Freitag.

(Image: Courtesy of Perry World House)

Celebrity chefs Amanda Freitag and Michael Solomonov discuss culinary diplomacy

Perry World House hosted a lively conversation moderated by former Visiting Fellow Lauren Bernstein that highlighted how chefs can promote cross-cultural awareness through global culinary engagement. 

Kristen de Groot

Dispossessions and race in the Americas
A group of Native Americans standing in a row. The trees behind are bare; it looks to be cold.

Belén Unzueta and her students looked at the enrollment cards the U.S. government gave Native Americans. It’s striking, because the cards list the blood quantum, she says.

(Image: Harris & Ewing, photographer/Library of Congress)

Dispossessions and race in the Americas

Belén Unzueta is teaching a seminar on the historical account of race and ethnicity in the Americas as a Penn-Mellon Just Futures Initiative graduate fellow.

Kristina García

PennPraxis Design Fellows help reimagine New Orleans highway corridor
A group of people posing for the cameria in New Orleans.

Design Fellow and MArch student Cheyenne Yamada (front row, at right) with members of the Colloqate team and community members in New Orleans.

(Image: Courtesy of the Weitzman School)

PennPraxis Design Fellows help reimagine New Orleans highway corridor

A collaboration with members of PennPraxis Design Fellows program and design firm Colloqate Design tackles a ‘design justice’ project, working with residents of the Tremé since 2017 on new visions for the corridor.

From the Weitzman School of Design

SNF Paideia Program at Penn receives $13M to promote informed dialogue and civic engagement
A group of people including Penn President Liz Magill and Michael Delli Carpini.

Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) co-president Andreas Dracopoulos, (front left), Penn President Liz Magill (front center), and SNF Paideia founding faculty director Michael X. Delli Carpini (front right) gathered with students and alumni in the rare book collection of the National Library of Greece at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, as a part of the SNF Nostos Conference, held in Athens in June 2023.

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SNF Paideia Program at Penn receives $13M to promote informed dialogue and civic engagement

The support is the third such grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
An inauspicious arrival for the ambitious Benjamin Franklin
The young Ben Franklin statue on Penn’s campus.

The “Young Benjamin Franklin” statue in front of Weightman Hall on 33rd street depicts Penn’s founder as the 17-year-old who arrived in Philadelphia 300 years ago.

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An inauspicious arrival for the ambitious Benjamin Franklin

Penn’s founder arrived in Philadelphia on Oct. 6 300 years ago as a nearly penniless 17-year-old looking for a job as a printer.