Penn-developed AI tools and datasets help tailor treatments for kidney patients
Penn Medicine and Wharton researchers have partnered to create CellSpectra and SISKA, offering clues to better treatments for kidney disease and beyond.
Yuko Goto Butler’s latest book gathers research on language development and pedagogy among children learning a foreign language and presents it in a manner that bridges research and practice.
The welcoming student team behind Penn’s orientation week
As part of New Student Orientation and Academic Initiatives, a group of nine undergraduates have been working since June to help shape the design, development, and planning of the New Student Orientation experience for the incoming Class of 2029.
Penn scholars on the Supreme Court’s 2024-25 regulatory decisions
An essay series in The Regulatory Review, a publication of the Penn Program on Regulation, examines the Supreme Court’s major regulatory decisions from its recent term.
Three undergraduates map climate and health education opportunities across campus
For a Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program project, Wendy Hernandez Higarede, Veronica Baladi, and Faith Amolo Owino are engaging with Penn’s Climate and Health Education Working Group and learning ethnographic methods.
Benjamin Nathans has been studying Soviet and Russian history for four decades.
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Penn’s Benjamin Nathans reflects on his work and Pulitzer Prize win
Historian Benjamin Nathans’ huge volume on the stories and lives of Soviet dissidents has gotten renewed attention after winning the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Nathan’s research and insights span a four-decade-long career studying Russia and the USSR, modern Jewish history, and the history of human rights.
AI vision, reinvented: The power of synthetic data
Researchers at Penn Engineering and the Allen Institute for AI are using AI to create scientific figures, charts, and tables that teach other AI systems how to interpret complex visual information for open-source models.