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Animating for impact
Cartoon-stylized person compassionately touching an elderly person's face.

A still from "Mother," an animated short film about Hong's grandfather’s life, from losing his mother at a young age to building his own family.

(Image: Ejun Hong)

Animating for impact

Funded by RealArts@Penn, rising fourth-year Ejun Hong is spending the summer interning with Sony Pictures in Los Angeles.
Nurturing nightlife in Music City
Downtown Nashville at dusk.

Image: Courtesy of Weitzman News

Nurturing nightlife in Music City

A new report from PennPraxis, VibeLab, and Culture Shift Team captures the vitality and vulnerability of Nashville's music scene.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Internship offers pathway to careers in the museum field
Ethan Nemeth at a table talking with another person.

Rising third-year Ethan Nemeth (left) was an intern at the Penn Museum through the Summer Humanities Internship Program. He worked at several public events, including the Garden Jams concerts in July. 

(Image: by Emmanuel Beatty for the Penn Museum)

Internship offers pathway to careers in the museum field

Rising third-year Ethan Nemeth (left), one of 17 paid interns at the Penn Museum this summer, works on the team that manages public programs. The ancient history major says the experience has helped him understand career options in the museum field.
Summer construction in full swing on campus
Quadrangle building exterior with cranes outside of it.

A construction crew works outside of the Quadrangle, which recently finished phase one of a three-phase renovation. 

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Summer construction in full swing on campus

Before student Move-In, construction teams work to advance building projects and conduct maintenance. Facilities & Real Estate Services offers updates on a few projects.
To get drivers to put down their phones, make it a game
A person driving pressing a button on a mounted smartphone.

Image: iStock/dusanpetkovic

To get drivers to put down their phones, make it a game

A large trial of strategies to reduce distracted driving presented by Penn Medicine experts show that those that were “gamified” yielded a lasting reduction in handheld phone usage while driving.

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Embracing the power of deep learning in safety-critical systems
From left: Pengyuan Eric Lu, Insup Lee, and Oleg Sokolsky.

From left: Pengyuan Eric Lu and his mentors, Insup Lee, Cecilia Fitler Moore Professor in Computer and Information Science; and Oleg Sokolsky, research professor in CIS.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Engineering)

Embracing the power of deep learning in safety-critical systems

Pengyuan Eric Lu, a Ph.D. candidate at the Penn Research in Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems Engineering Center, focuses his research on enhancing the reliability and safety of cyber-physical systems, in which “smart” technology interacts with the physical world.

From Penn Engineering