Read about the 2024-25 Katz Center fellows and their scholarship and research. The fellows are: Marek Tuszewicki on folk medicine in Eastern Europe, Hannah Zaves-Greene’s disability studies and American Jewish history, Carla Vieira and the key role played by Sephardic physicians in the circulation of early Modern scientific knowledge, Magdalena Janosikova’s research into the history of medicine in early modern Ashkenaz, Uzi Rebhun’s conversation emphasizing the importance of counting, Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim’s on expanding the map of medieval Jewish knowledge transfer, Wendy Zierler on where storytelling, medicine, and gender come together in modern Israeli writing, and Ahuvia Goren's research on the circulation of the idea of circulation.
Materials in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives include thousands of TV scripts, the first issue of TV Guide, and interviews about the early days of HBO—which help to chronicle TV’s 100-year story.
Centering joy in AI development and implementation
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.
Winter Storm Fern brought icy and snowy conditions to the Northeast and other parts of the country over the weekend. Penn Today asks physicist Robert Carpick about the unique properties of ice, the science of curling, and how close we are to ‘nonslip’ ice.
Organizations like Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships foster collaborations between Penn and public schools in the West Philadelphia community.
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.
