The Architecural Conservation Laboratory and Research Center of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation in the Graduate School of Fine Arts has received a federal grant of $800,000 to study and conserve the Native American cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. The dwellings are among the most significant and renowned of ancestral pueblo sites. The funding will allow Penn to continue its historical and scientific research and fieldwork, including digital documentation of masonry conditions, environmental monitoring, and conservation treatments for the stone and earthen structures.
The money is the largest single grant awarded to GSFA in recent years.
Penn physicists led by Bo Zhen have created hybrid light-matter particles that interact strongly enough to compute, pointing toward ultrafast, low-energy optical AI hardware.
Penn’s newest supercomputer is transforming research
Penn’s first campus-wide HPC and AI cluster, “Betty,” is expanding access to powerful computing, enabling groundbreaking projects, and fostering new collaborations across disciplines.
A bioengineered bean gum from the lab of Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell is found to reduce the levels of three microbes associated with head and neck squamous cell cancer to almost zero, without affecting the beneficial bacteria normally found in the mouth.
Fighting oral cancer with bioengineered chewing gum
Research led by Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell shows that antiviral and antibacterial chewing gums reduce the levels of three microbes linked to worse outcomes in oral cancers, paving the way for more effective and affordable therapies.
The performing arts at Penn: Process, practice, and purpose
In the vivid tapestry of performing arts groups at Penn, students prepare for their performances while simultaneously enriching their college experience.
