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Penn Vet’s Wildlife Futures Program launches habitat initiative for Philadelphia bats
Nick Tanner and Daniel Flinchbaugh with a finished bat box.

Penn Facilities and Real Estate Services assistant landscape planner Daniel Flinchbaugh (left) and Penn undergraduate Nick Tanner (right) with a nearly finished bat box in the Weitzman School of Design Fabrication Lab.

(Image: John Donges/University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine)

Penn Vet’s Wildlife Futures Program launches habitat initiative for Philadelphia bats

With the bat population on a sharp decline since 2008, the Program collaborated with Penn Sustainability and Penn Facilities and Real Estate Services to develop bat boxes designed to mimic tree habitat and support the daily needs and overall health of bats.

From Penn Vet

Introducing the Penn AI Council
Locust Walk on Penn’s campus in the fall.

The council will coordinate cross-school research opportunities, support new AI and data science scientists, and usher in the Penn Advanced Research Computing Center.

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Introducing the Penn AI Council

The Council consists of five faculty members collaborating to enhance visibility and impact of AI research across Penn.
Event looks at neck-and-neck presidential election
From left, journalists Greg Sargent, Eugene Daniels, Sarah McCammon and David Drucker share their perspectives and insights on the 2024 election at a recent roundtable on campus.

From left, journalists Greg Sargent, Eugene Daniels, Sarah McCammon and David Drucker share their perspectives and insights on the 2024 election at a recent roundtable on campus.

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Event looks at neck-and-neck presidential election

At a roundtable sponsored by the SNF Paideia Program, political journalists from diverse outlets discussed the states of the presidential campaigns.
Exploring the authenticity of a pair of storied gloves
Historic gloves in a case.

The gloves under ultraviolet light. 

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Exploring the authenticity of a pair of storied gloves

Kislak Center curator Alicia Meyer is researching a pair of gloves in the Penn Libraries collection rumored to have been William Shakespeare’s, enlisting the help of Tessa Gadomski in the Libraries conservation laboratory to see if the gloves could be from the 1600s.
Six Penn experts elected to National Academy of Medicine
Top row, left to right: Zoltan Pierre Aramy, Kathryn H. Bowles, and Scott D. Halpern. Bottom row left to right: Eugenia South, Alexis A. Thompson, and E. John Wherry III.

Top row, left to right: Zoltan Pierre Aramy, Kathryn H. Bowles, and Scott D. Halpern. Bottom row, left to right: Eugenia South, Alexis A. Thompson, and E. John Wherry III.

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Six Penn experts elected to National Academy of Medicine

The honor recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.

From Penn Medicine News , Eric Horvath

How a Wharton undergrad balances dance and business
Sami Goel performing on stage with Penn Masti.

Third-year Sami Goel is studying finance and business analytics at the Wharton School.

(Image: Courtesy of Sami Goel)

How a Wharton undergrad balances dance and business

Fourth-year Samica Goel knew she wanted to dance in college, but was drawn to the business side of the arts. She studies finance and business analytics at Wharton and is the assistant choreographer and dancer with Penn Masti, a South Asian Bollywood fusion dance team.

From Wharton Stories

Mastering physical contact with new algorithm for robots
A robotic arm balancing a tray in a lab.

The new algorithm allows the robotic arm to balance and move a waiter’s plastic tray, mastering control of a sliding object—a previously impossible task for robots.

(Image: DAIR Lab)

Mastering physical contact with new algorithm for robots

Penn Engineers have developed an algorithm that makes previously impossible tasks possible for autonomous robots, like controlling the motion of a sliding object.

Ian Scheffler

Novel mRNA vaccine prevents and treat C. difficile
Microscopic view of C. difficile.

Image: iStock/Dr_Microbe

Novel mRNA vaccine prevents and treat C. difficile

Penn Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have developed the first mRNA vaccine against C. difficile to successfully ward off the bacterial infection.

Alex Gardner

Penn solutions to climate change
Banner that reads climate week at Penn

At a Climate Week event, Penn’s Climate Solutions Showcase, a group of faculty and researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Weitzman School of Design presented innovative strategies to combat the causes and effects of climate change.

(Image: Felice Macera)

Penn solutions to climate change

As society grapples with the impacts of a worsening climate—from the increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events to rising sea levels and deadly heat waves—the need for actionable solutions has never been greater, Penn researchers say.