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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 to gain a firsthand understanding of how policy, history, culture, and socioeconomic forces shape real-world conditions in various countries.

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Making older homes a safer haven for young families
Two members of a lead abatement team surveying a house under lead abatement treatment.

The Green & Healthy Homes team tests the home, identifying any hazardous paint, and potentially replacing the surface and/or paint while the family stays in a local hotel.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News)

Making older homes a safer haven for young families

After five years, the Lead-Free Families initiative is proving the impact of a health system investing in safe homes.

From Penn Medicine News

2 min. read

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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Taking AI to the next level 

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.

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.

(Image: Courtesy of McNeil Center for Early American History)

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

2 min. read

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

2 min. read

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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