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Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize

The winning team of Penn Engineering’s annual award for entrepreneurial technology have created a noninvasive mechanism to adjust medical stent positioning using magnetic reconfiguration.

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Four from Penn named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows

Jason Altschuler, César de la Fuente, Liang Wu, and Anderson Ye Zhang have been honored as early-career researchers and scholars for their accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become leaders in their fields.

Grace Gramins plays a guitar with a friend on keyboard on Penn’s campus.

Finding the rhythm behind business fundamentals

Wharton undergraduate Grace Gramins finds harmony between music production and business.

Gobhanu Korisepati standing with his arms crossed.

Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati is making an impact around the world

Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati co-founded the international microfinancing nonprofit Sustaining Women in Financial Turmoil while in high school, and, as a student at Penn, he continues as executive chairman.

How will the workplace change in 2025?

The Wharton School’s Peter Cappelli expects incremental changes in the workplace this year, a continuation of bigger trends that began during the pandemic.

Why the most successful companies are scalable

Giant companies stay on top because they’re both more productive and scalable than their competitors, according to research from Wharton and the School of Arts & Sciences.

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Violent language in film has increased

A new study from the Annenberg School for Communication finds that violent speech in movies is increasing over time, even in non-crime films.

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A group of students sits around a rectangular table in a discussion. A man stands next to a pad of paper on an easel preparing to take notes.

Perry World House student fellows explore global policy solutions

Through global trips and weekly seminars, the program centers students’ interests in global policy to help solve real-world problems, and the students gain one-of-a-kind experience along the way.

Chuanyuan (Suzanne) Liu and Habib Salim standing outside dressed in graduation gowns.

Two Penn alumni named 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholars

Two members of the Class of 2023, Chuanyuan (Suzanne) Liu and Habib Salim, have each received Schwarzman Scholarship funding for a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Illustration of a person walking to a building in a city, one side is abandoned, the other side is revitalized.

What’s the future of cities?

Before COVID-19, major U.S. urban centers were enjoying a resurgence. Now decreased occupancy has downtown economies and municipal budgets feeling the pinch. Wharton faculty research suggests that how cities navigate the next few years could be crucial.

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