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Jessica Mach standing outside with her arm resting on a low brick wall

Fine art and design using artificial intelligence

Through the design course Artificial Intelligence in Art, second-year Jessica Mach has discovered AI's potential through creating several projects, including a video story and an interactive game.

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Cary Coglianese on the future of administrative law

Penn Carey Law’s Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science has published one of the first scholarly analyses of Supreme Court’s landmark Loper Bright decision, which overturned the four-decade-old Chevron doctrine and sparked intense debates over the future of administrative law.

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‘What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice & Change’

The first book from Emily Falk of the Annenberg School for Communication provides a window into the impacts of the brain’s value, self-relevance, and social relevance systems.

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Shelley Berger honored by AACR for cancer research

Berger, the Daniel S. Och University Professor with appointments in the Perelman School of Medicine department of Cell & Developmental Biology and a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences, is recognized for her outstanding contributions to cancer research by the American Association for Cancer Research with the 2025 AACR-Women in Cancer Research Charlotte Friend Lectureship.

New guidance on diagnosing malnutrition in critically ill adults

The Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition has published new guidance statements for diagnosing malnutrition in adults with critical illness co-authored by Penn Nursing’s Charlene Compher in the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.

Penn alum Hoang C. Le awarded a 2025 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans

Le, a Class of 2023 graduate, has been awarded a Fellowship to the merit-based program that provides graduate school funding for immigrants and children of immigrants to the United States. Le’s research explores the evolution of viral-host interactions to uncover novel molecular tools and therapeutic targets.

Black Law Student Association explores constitutional law, literacy, and advocacy in South Africa

This spring, Penn Carey Law’s Black Law Student Association traveled to South Africa to engage in several high-impact activities focused on constitutional law, social justice, and legal education. Each year, the group travels internationally to give back to the Black diaspora and learn about different issues Black communities are facing around the world.

Veterinary student on the human benefits of poultry medicine

Dana Bubka came to the School of Veterinary Medicine knowing she wanted to be a poultry veterinarian, and after graduation, she is staying at Penn for a residency in anatomic pathology.

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Penn students riding bikes over a bridge in Amsterdam.

Turning bicycles into an engineering study tool

Penn students explore the Netherlands’ cycling infrastructure and learn about bicycle design principles in Dustyn Roberts’ popular Penn Global Seminar.