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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.

Louisa Shepard

The promising use of AI models in contract interpretation
A hand virtually holding AI iconography and scales of justice.

Image: iStock/Suriya Phosri

The promising use of AI models in contract interpretation

In “Generative Interpretation,” Penn Carey Law’s David Hoffman shows how large language models provide a better method of contract interpretation, with some caveats.

From Penn Carey Law

Carnot Prize awarded to architect of Uruguay’s energy transition
Liz Magill presents an award to Ramón Méndez Galain.

Penn President Liz Magill presents Ramón Méndez Galain with the 2023 Carnot Prize, in a ceremony at the Kleinman Center Energy Forum.

(Image: T. Kevin Birch)

Carnot Prize awarded to architect of Uruguay’s energy transition

The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy held a ceremony to honor Ramón Méndez Galain, Uruguay’s former energy director.
‘A New Age of Nuclearity? Great Powers and Greater Consequences’
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu speaks at Penn's Perry World House.

United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu  in a conversation with Washington Post foreign affairs reporter Adam Taylor. 

(Image: Eddy Marenco)

‘A New Age of Nuclearity? Great Powers and Greater Consequences’

Perry World House’s 2023 Global Order Colloquium took a deep dive into current nuclear issues, looking at how the world will manage nuclear threats amid growing geopolitical tension, climate change challenges, and international conflict.

Kristen de Groot

Three from Penn receive NIH Director Award
Headshots of Jina Ko, Kevin Johnson, and Sheila Shanmugan

Jina Ko (left) and Kevin Johnson (middle), from both the School of Engineering and the Perelman School of Medicine, along with Sheila Shanmugan (right) from the latter, have received the National Institute of Health Director’s Award to support their “highly innovative and broadly impactful” research projects through the High-Risk, High-Reward program.

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Three from Penn receive NIH Director Award

Kevin B. Johnson, Jina Ko, and Sheila Shanmugan awarded NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.
‘A booster for all of us’
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman and a crowd of people at Penn Medicine.

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were named winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday, Oct. 2. The Penn Medicine community came together to celebrate the duo.

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‘A booster for all of us’

The Penn Medicine community gathered Monday afternoon, toasting to Penn’s new Nobel laureates.

Lauren Hertzler

Art Matters: ‘Bridges’ by Roberto Lugo
The artwork “Bridges” by Robert Lugo in the Arthur Ross Gallery.

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  • Art Matters

    • Art Matters: ‘Bridges’ by Roberto Lugo

    A ceramic vase with the face of the artist’s father on one side and Benjamin Franklin’s on the other is on view in the Van-Pelt Dietrich Library Center.

    Louisa Shepard