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Exploring inflation and economics through the lens of history
Melissa Teixeira stands in front of a conference room speaking to students.

Melissa Teixeira discusses the final assignment with her Inflationary Times history class.

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Exploring inflation and economics through the lens of history

In Inflationary Times, a history course from Melissa Teixeira, students grappled with big-picture concepts of debt, money, and currency across the globe and through time.

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Q&A: The first American pope
The new pope, Pope Leo, waves from St. Peter’s Basilica.

Pope Leo XIV at St. Peter’s Basilica after being chosen the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church on May 8.

(Image: AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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    • Q&A: The first American pope

    Melissa Wilde of the Department of Sociology, whose research has led her to the Vatican Secret Archive, among other places, discusses the new Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, and the implications for the Roman Catholic Church.

    3 min. read

    Enhanced CAR T cell therapy offers new strategy for lymphoma
    3-D rendering of chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy, a treatment for a variety of cancers

    Image: iStock/Naeblys

    Enhanced CAR T cell therapy offers new strategy for lymphoma

    A new study from Penn Medicine marks a significant development in the ongoing evolution of CAR T cell therapy, as a novel cytokine-enhanced CAR T that has been tested in patients with blood cancer shows robust response rates.

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    First new subtype of Castleman disease discovered in 45 years
    David Fajgenbaum in his lab.

    David Fajgenbaum is an assistant professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and associate director of patient impact in the Penn Orphan Disease Center. He also leads the Castleman Disease Research Program.

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine)

    First new subtype of Castleman disease discovered in 45 years

    A new study co-authored by Penn Medicine’s David Fajgenbaum expands the spectrum of the rare disorder, which will help diagnose and treat patients caught between existing classification systems.

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    Penn Engineers examine the fracture mechanics of 3D graphene structures

    Penn Engineers examine the fracture mechanics of 3D graphene structures

    A new study from teams in the labs of Penn Engineering’s Ottman Tertuliano and Robert Carpick describes a new, 3D auto-kirigami deformation of graphene, one of the strongest materials known to science, and how the process could be used to transform 2D graphene into 3D structures.

    Ericka Weathers selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2030

    Ericka Weathers selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2030

    Weathers, an assistant professor in Penn GSE’s Policy, Organizations, and Leadership division, is one of five early-career researchers who have been selected for the new class of William T. Grant Scholars. Weathers studies the causes and consequences of inequality in K–12 education as well as the effects of K–12 policies on student and school outcomes.

    Benjamin Nathans wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
    Benjamin Nathans.

    Benjamin Nathans, the Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Professor of History, has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his book “To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement.”

    (Image: Matthew Hamilton)

    Benjamin Nathans wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction

    Nathans, the Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Professor of History in the School of Arts & Sciences, has taught at Penn since 1998.

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    Five ways gen AI is changing workplace identity

    Five ways gen AI is changing workplace identity

    At this year’s SXSW Conference, Wharton’s Stefano Puntoni spoke with Google chief measurement strategist Neil Hoyne about the impact of generative AI on employees and the workplace.

    Concrete panels as teaching tools, materials testing, and outdoor sculptures
    Richard Garber standing outside in front of concrete panel

    Architect Richard Garber created and teaches the graduate course Matter Making and Testing: Designing with Next Generation Precast Concrete.

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    Concrete panels as teaching tools, materials testing, and outdoor sculptures

    On view outside the Weitzman School of Design are three freestanding concrete panels designed and made by students in a unique graduate seminar that partners with a local concrete-fabrication plant

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