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Penn powers up AI learning for faculty and staff
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Penn powers up AI learning for faculty and staff

AI Principles & Practices, a series of interactive sessions supported by a Draw Down the Lightning Grant, aims to enhance faculty and staff skills by introducing platforms and technologies supported at Penn.

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Summer program for teens combines practical economics and college life
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Economics Academy students work on a game theory project with notes from a previous international research project on the whiteboards.

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Summer program for teens combines practical economics and college life

The Economics Academy introduces high school students to key principles and applications, learning while living on campus.

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Merging academics with real-world, tangible experiences
Sarah Usandivaras Klaehn standing outside steps of Fisher Fine Arts building on campus

From Asunción, Paraguay, rising fourth-year Sarah Usandivaras Klaehn is a marketing and communications summer intern for the nonprofit Girls Inc. in Manhattan.

(Image: Courtesy of Sarah Usandivaras Klaehn)

Merging academics with real-world, tangible experiences

Adding to her experience working for nonprofits, rising fourth-year Sarah Usandivaras Klaehn is a marketing and communications intern for Girls Inc. in Manhattan this summer.

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Radio days for rising third-year Luiza Sulea
Luiza Sulea standing in front of neon WXPN sign

Luiza Sulea plans to continue at WXPN in the coming year as a work-study student. 

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Radio days for rising third-year Luiza Sulea

Rising third-year Luiza Sulea is working in marketing at Penn’s WXPN radio through the Summer Humanities Internship Program.

Louisa Shepard

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SHEAR James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize to Sarah L. H. Gronningsater for “The Rising Generation”

SHEAR James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize to Sarah L. H. Gronningsater for “The Rising Generation”

The James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, awarded annually to the best first book by a new author published in the previous calendar year and dealing with any aspect of the history of the early American republic, went to Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, associate professor of history at Penn’s School of Arts &N Sciences, for “The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom.”

2024 Booklaunch award for Nancy Steinhardt

2024 Booklaunch award for Nancy Steinhardt

Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt's book, “Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire,” has won the Booklaunch award for Best Architectural History Book of 2024. Shatzman Steinhart is a professor of East Asian art at the School of Arts & Sciences. Her book is the first comprehensive English-language study of Chinese architecture during the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

Japan’s election outcomes
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A TV screen shows Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaking a day after Japan's parliamentary elections, in which his party lost its majority. Ishiba said he will remain in his role.

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Japan’s election outcomes

Political scientist Daniel Smith discusses the results of the Japanese parliamentary elections and the effects on the country’s future.

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