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Perspectives and insight on Venezuela

Perspectives and insight on Venezuela

Four Penn Arts & Sciences experts gathered for a Knowledge by the Slice event to discuss what lies ahead for Venezuela, the U.S., and Latin America.

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Literature and medicine
Dag Woubeshet (right) speaks with student in a classroom who is giving the thumbs up.

Dagmawi Woubshet (right), Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Associate Professor of English, says “we try to teach our students how to think critically and historically, but also with fidelity to the art object.”

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Literature and medicine

The Penn Arts & Sciences course Literature and Medicine begins with Apollo and the Hippocratic Oath and extends through the 21st century with poetry, novels, videography, historical texts, and guest lecturers from the Perelman School of Medicine and beyond.

Kristina Linnea García

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PennSTAR delivers critical care in the air, across the region
Three members of the PennSTAR flight crew next to a helicopter.

The flight crew of a PennSTAR helicopter on the roof of the Clifton Center in between call.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News)

PennSTAR delivers critical care in the air, across the region

PennSTAR’s flight crews and Metro Aviation pilots combine rigorous training, redundant safety, and a proprietary instrument approach to move the sickest patients quickly to the right Penn Medicine care.

From Penn Medicine News

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Awards and accolades for Penn faculty
An archway on Penn’s campus in the snow.

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Awards and accolades for Penn faculty

A roundup of the latest appointments and awards for various faculty members in the Graduate School of Education, the School of Arts & Sciences, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Penn Today Staff

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Moving closer to ‘true’ equine IVF for clinical use
Katrin Hinrichs and Matheus Felix in a lab.

Katrin Hinrichs, chair of the Department of Clinical Studies–New Bolton Center and head of the Penn Equine Assisted Reproduction Laboratory (PEARL) and Matheus Felix, PEARL’s chief embryologist, work together in the lab. Felix is also an author in the 2025 study report on IVF with frozen-thawed stallion sperm.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Vet)

Moving closer to ‘true’ equine IVF for clinical use

Researchers at Penn Vet are exploring different processes for using frozen-thawed semen to accomplish so-called true IVF.

From Penn Vet

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Penn receives national distinction for community engagement
High school students in a science class.

Organizations like Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships foster collaborations between Penn and public schools in the West Philadelphia community.

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Penn receives national distinction for community engagement

The recognition by the American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching acknowledges Penn’s long-standing commitment to community-engaged scholarship and partnerships in West Philadelphia and beyond.

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Penn GSE partners to launch $26M AI grants program advancing K–12 education

Penn GSE partners to launch $26M AI grants program advancing K–12 education

This new program will fund the development of openly shared datasets, models, and other digital resources so developers, school districts, and educators can build safe, effective, and equitable AI tools for K–12 teaching and learning.