From left, Adelaide Lyall and Norah Rami are Penn's 2026 Marshall Scholars.
(Images: Courtesy of Adelaide Lyall and Norah Rami)
Two Penn students chosen as 2026 Marshall Scholars
Adelaide Lyall, a graduate student in the School of Social Policy & Practice, and Norah Rami, a fourth-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, will receive funding for as much as three years of graduate study in the United Kingdom.
In office-to-housing conversions, New York City is leading by example
Vincent Reina of the Weitzman School of Design says cities that want more office space turned into housing need to be as proactive as New York in making policy changes.
Data centers in space aren’t as wild as they sound
Benjamin Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that orbital data centers would benefit from continuous solar energy, resolving long-standing challenges around powering data center computation in a carbon-efficient manner.
Patrick Cayelli and Connor Dawson land spots on USC All-Northeast Second Team
Midfielder Cayelli and defender Dawson have earned a spot on the All-Northeast Second Team in the NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer All-Regions after strong performances during the 2025 season.
Early immune clues could help detect and prevent type 1 diabetes
Researchers from Penn Medicine have uncovered new clues in pancreas lymph nodes and the spleen that may stop the disease before insulin is lost forever.
Penn Carey Law professors Bill Burke-White and Ken Kulak attended COP30, this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, and incorporated their experiences into their International Climate Change and Energy Law and Climate Change courses.
The baby whose life was saved by the first personalized CRISPR therapy
Kiran Musunuru of the Perelman School of Medicine and Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used a gene-editing therapy tailored to unique DNA sequences to treat a child with a rare genetic disorder.
“White Ouroboros II” by Allison Janae Hamilton. The Institute for Contemporary Art will feature the first museum survey of the artist in the spring of 2027.
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Two 2025 project grants and a fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
WXPN and the Institute for Contemporary Art each received creative project grants and filmmaker Sosena Solomon, who teaches in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, was named a 2025 Pew Fellow.
