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Corine Labridy leads an exploration of French Caribbean culture and literature
A woman with glasses in a dark sweater sits behind a desk, looking to the left.

Corine Labridy, an assistant professor of French and Francophone studies, uses the literature of the French Caribbean to help students learn larger lessons about identity and culture.

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Corine Labridy leads an exploration of French Caribbean culture and literature

The French and Francophone Studies faculty member took an unconventional route to academia. She places the voices of the islands at the heart of her work.
From the Archives: Raymond and Sadie Alexander family home movies
Sadie and Raymond Alexander with a film projector in a room with books on bookshelves and framed photos behind them.

Penn alumni Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander and Raymond Pace Alexander in their North Philadelphia home, 1708 W. Jefferson St., in 1952, looking at some of their home movies, which are in the University Archives and Records Center.

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From the Archives: Raymond and Sadie Alexander family home movies

The University Archives’ Alexander Family Papers document the professional and personal lives of Penn trailblazers Raymond and Sadie Alexander, as well as some of their family members. Included are more than 100 home movies, dating from 1930 to 1961.
Getting to the root of root canals
Person receiving treatment in a dental clinic.

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Getting to the root of root canals

Penn researchers use iron oxide nanozymes to treat infections during root canals with fewer adverse effects than clinical gold standard while also promoting tissue healing.
Sophia Z. Lee: ‘The Reconciliation Roots of Fourth Amendment Privacy’
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Sophia Z. Lee

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Sophia Z. Lee: ‘The Reconciliation Roots of Fourth Amendment Privacy’

The dean of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School explores “privacies of life” and Fourth Amendment rights in the University of Chicago Law Review.

From Penn Carey Law

What can theoretical physics teach us about knitting?
knitted squiggles

(On homepage) A close-up of a highly structured self-folding knit, where carefully designed stitch patterns create a repeating wave-like geometry. This fabric’s shape is dictated entirely by its stitch arrangement, demonstrating how knitting can be programmed to form complex, three-dimensional structures without the need for additional shaping forces. Such advancements in knitigami—the fusion of knitting and origami—could lead to innovations in deployable textiles, soft robotics, and adaptive materials.

(Image: Courtesy of Lauren Niu)

What can theoretical physics teach us about knitting?

Penn physicist Randall Kamien, visiting scholar Lauren Niu, and collaborator Geneviève Dion of Drexel bring unprecedented levels of predictability to the ancient practice of knitting by developing a mathematical model that could be used to create a new class of lightweight, ultra-strong materials.
Takeaways to understand ‘indirect costs’ and NIH funding
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Takeaways to understand ‘indirect costs’ and NIH funding

Penn’s Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Mark Dingfield and Senior Associate Vice Provost and Senior Associate Vice President for Research Missy Peloso explain facilities and administrative (‘indirect’) costs and the implications of potential NIH funding cuts.
‘JeepyTA’ has entered the chat
Rachel Liu sitting at a counter with her laptop.

Rachel Liu, a first-year doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education.

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‘JeepyTA’ has entered the chat

At Penn’s Graduate School of Education, the Penn Center for Learning Analytics is piloting an AI teaching assistant that fields students’ syllabus questions, generates assignment feedback, and eases the stress of instructors’ and TAs’ emailing schedules.
Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize
Winners of Penn’s 2025 Y-Prize holding their certificates.

The Stentix team (top) Summer Cobb and Amanda Kossoff, (bottom) Aarsha Shah and Elizabeth Jia, with judges (descending left) Matt Fitz-Henry, Jason Smith, Jennifer Gilburg, and Sasha Schrode, and (descending right) David Hsu, Gerald Lopez, and Dean Miller.

(Image: Courtesy of the William and Phyllis Mack Institute for Innovation Management)

Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize

The winning team of Penn Engineering’s annual award for entrepreneurial technology have created a noninvasive mechanism to adjust medical stent positioning using magnetic reconfiguration.

From the William and Phyllis Mack Institute for Innovation Management

ICA exhibition surveys artist Carl Cheng’s career
Artist Carl Cheng standing in art gallery with sculptures and photographs

Artist Carl Cheng at the opening of the ICA exhibition at Penn.

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ICA exhibition surveys artist Carl Cheng’s career

A new exhibition at Penn’s Institute of Contemporary Art is the first in-depth museum survey of the six-decade career of California artist Carl Cheng, on view through April 6.