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How do you authenticate a long-lost Chopin waltz?
Jeffrey Kallberg playing a grand piano.

Jeffrey Kallberg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music and interim dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, plays the newly found Chopin waltz and other music from the composer on a Érard piano donated by alum Yves Gaden.

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How do you authenticate a long-lost Chopin waltz?

Jeffrey Kallberg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music and interim dean of Penn Arts & Sciences, has helped to verify the first major manuscript from the famous composer since the 1930s.

Michele W. Berger

Developing a tiny anticancer weapon
A cancer cell breaking up.

Image: iStock/Bahaa_Aladdin

Developing a tiny anticancer weapon

Penn Medicine researchers have developed tumor-homing nanosized particles that trigger cancer cell self-destruction in preclinical tests.

Meagan Raeke

Penn Center for Innovation celebrates 10 years
Scientists holding a model of something (forthcoming)

(Image: Eric Sucar)

Penn Center for Innovation celebrates 10 years

The University’s nexus for technology transfer supports researchers in their innovative efforts, from CAR T to mRNA advancements that have dramatically reshaped the world.
A conversation with Board Chair Ramanan Raghavendran
Ramanan Raghavendran engages in conversation at a conference table.

University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees Chair Ramanan Raghavendran.

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  • Q&A

    • A conversation with Board Chair Ramanan Raghavendran

    One year since becoming the Chair of the Board of Trustees, Raghavendran discusses Penn’s advancements from the past year, the purpose of a values statement, and Penn’s strengths as a cultivator of American leadership.
    Perry World House student fellows explore global policy solutions
    A group of students sits around a rectangular table in a discussion. A man stands next to a pad of paper on an easel preparing to take notes.

    A team of Perry World House Student Fellows discuss actions and policies during the 2024 crisis simulation at Perry World House, facilitated by Tom Ellison (standing), deputy director of the Center for Climate and Security at the Council on Strategic Risks.

    (Image: Courtesy of Perry World House)

    Perry World House student fellows explore global policy solutions

    Through global trips and weekly seminars, the program centers students’ interests in global policy to help solve real-world problems, and the students gain one-of-a-kind experience along the way.
    The law in the 19th-century American South
    A historic photo of someone cutting the grass of a plantation in the Antebellum South.

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    The law in the 19th-century American South

    Madison Ogletree, a McNeil Center for Early American Studies Consortium Dissertation Fellow, explains her deep dive into law and the everyday lives of free African Americans in rural areas of the slave South.

    From The McNeil Center for Early American Studies

    Penn’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service
    An image of the Hall of Flags looking down at round tables crowded with people

    The annual Day of Service begins with a kickoff breakfast in Houston Hall.

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    Penn’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service

    Penn’s 30th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and Symposium on Social Change will be held Jan. 20.

    Kristina García

    Forum addresses foreign policy priorities for the U.S.
    Three people sit in chairs on a stage in front of a Perry World House logo. The person in the middle is talking with a hand-held microphone.

    From left, Perry World House panelists Erin Sikorsky, Hussein Banai and Alexander Vershbow at a forum on foreign policy priorities for the incoming administration.

    (Image: Gabrielle Szczepanek)

    Forum addresses foreign policy priorities for the U.S.

    Experts offered predictions and insights for leaders in the incoming administration at a Perry World House forum.
    Two Penn alumni named 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholars
    Chuanyuan (Suzanne) Liu and Habib Salim standing outside dressed in graduation gowns.

    Two members of Penn’s Class of 2023, (from left) Chuanyuan (Suzanne) Liu and Habib Salim, have been named 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholars.

    (Images: Courtesy of Chuanyuan (Suzanne) Liu and Habib Salim)

    Two Penn alumni named 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholars

    Two members of the Class of 2023, Chuanyuan (Suzanne) Liu and Habib Salim, have each received Schwarzman Scholarship funding for a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.