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Spring Intercultural Ventures explore geopolitics and economic change on the ground
Students at the Mokolodi Nature Reserve in Gaborone, Botswana.

LIV students following a game drive at Mokolodi Nature Reserve in Gaborone, Botswana.

(Image: Ludovico Galli)

Spring Intercultural Ventures explore geopolitics and economic change on the ground

The global immersion program enables Penn students from the Lauder Institute to gain a firsthand understanding of how policy, history, culture, and socioeconomic forces shape real-world conditions in various countries.

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Three questions to guide thoughtful, human-centered AI use in the classroom
Sarah Pierce behind a desk teaching a class.

Sarah Pierce is the Denise A. Rotko Associate Dean for Legal Practice Skills at Penn Carey Law.

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Three questions to guide thoughtful, human-centered AI use in the classroom

Ahead of an AI Month panel showcasing AI use in the classroom at Penn, Catherine Turner of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation poses three questions instructors can consider while planning AI-informed assignments and activities.

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In school and in practice, mass timber gains ground

In school and in practice, mass timber gains ground

Penn architects and students are designing with mass timber to highlight its expressive potential and sustainability for construction in cities around the world.

Researching 17th century Caribbean freedom and empire
Clifton Sorrell III

Clifton E. Sorrell III is a McNeil Center for Early American Studies Advisory Council Fellow.

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Researching 17th century Caribbean freedom and empire

McNeil Center for Early American Studies Advisory Council Fellow Clifton E. Sorrell III pieces together the world that shaped how people of African descent experienced slavery and freedom in the early Caribbean.

From The McNeil Center for Early American Studies

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Topology helps build more robust photonic networks
(From left) Xilin Feng, Liang Feng, and Tianwei Wu in an engineering lab.

(From left) Xilin Feng, Liang Feng, and Tianwei Wu developed a microring array that allows multiple beams of light to travel simultaneously, protected by topology.

(Image: Sylvia Zhang)

Topology helps build more robust photonic networks

Researchers at Penn Engineering draw insights from topology to help drive promising, light-based technological advances in computing and communications.

Ian Scheffler

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René Vidal: Taking AI to the next level 
Rene Vidal in a classroom in Penn's Amy Gutmann Hall.

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René Vidal: Taking AI to the next level 

René Vidal develops AI algorithms that are easier to understand, reliable, and trustworthy, helping make AI safer and more transparent in real-world use.

Tracing the evolving law and business of TV
An old tv monitor.

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Tracing the evolving law and business of TV

Reflecting on 100 years of television, Christopher Yoo of Penn Carey Law provides an overview of TV’s shifting legal landscape, and Barbara Kahn of the Wharton School shares how branding has evolved.

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Penn fourth-year chosen as Gaither Junior Fellow

Sonia Banker will be working on Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict and Governance program as a Junior Fellow.

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Penn fourth-year chosen as Gaither Junior Fellow

Sonia Banker will research U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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