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‘Be Holding’: A collaboration that feels improvisational
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‘Be Holding’: A collaboration that feels improvisational

A three-year partnership among Penn faculty, a poet, a quartet, and a high school results in an original production that premiered in Philadelphia this year.

Louisa Shepard

An inauspicious arrival for the ambitious Benjamin Franklin
The young Ben Franklin statue on Penn’s campus.

The “Young Benjamin Franklin” statue in front of Weightman Hall on 33rd street depicts Penn’s founder as the 17-year-old who arrived in Philadelphia 300 years ago.

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An inauspicious arrival for the ambitious Benjamin Franklin

Penn’s founder arrived in Philadelphia on Oct. 6 300 years ago as a nearly penniless 17-year-old looking for a job as a printer.

Louisa Shepard

A wrong number, a cryptic message, and a big Nobel win
kariko and weissman at nobel press conference

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A wrong number, a cryptic message, and a big Nobel win

Nobel Prize winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman share their thoughts on their newly minted honor at a University press conference.

Kristen de Groot

From the classroom to the international stage
Two actors in fencing gear performing on stage.

(Image: Noah Levine)

From the classroom to the international stage

At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, Penn students perform a play they learned in class.

Louisa Shepard

The immune health future, today
A person working in a medical lab.

Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine Magazine

The immune health future, today

Breaking the code of the immune system could provide a new fundamental way of understanding, treating, and preventing every type of disease. Penn Medicine is investing in key discoveries about immunity and immune system function, and building infrastructure, to make that bold idea a reality.

Christina Hernandez Sherwood for Penn Medicine Magazine

Climate Week 2023 highlights the links between biodiversity and the climate crisis
wildfire with smoke in a forest Wildfires are becoming increasingly common as a result of the climate crisis, endangering biodiversity and humans.

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Climate Week 2023 highlights the links between biodiversity and the climate crisis

The climate crisis impacts everyone. During Climate Week at Penn, which will be held from Sept. 18-22, everyone is invited to find their place in the climate movement.

Liana F. Wait

People and Places at Penn: College Houses
mitchell holston at a table during move in at lauder

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People and Places at Penn: College Houses

College Houses model lifelong learning and provide a home away from home. Three house directors discuss their distinctive roles.

Kristina García

Social ecology and community work in the Galápagos
students studying the galapagos, sitting on waterfront

(On homepage) On a Penn Global Research Institutes outing to Tortuga Bay, students and Penn Global’s Laurie Jensen sit on rocks in a lava field overlooking a hypersaline pool.

(Image: Michael Weisberg)

Social ecology and community work in the Galápagos

Undergraduate and graduate students spent two months on San Cristóbal Island this summer, doing research on antibacterial resistance, vectors of disease, climate change adaptation, and the impact of climate change on mental health.