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Bob Dylan as a modern-day prophet
Bod Dylan in profile at a microphone.

Image: Nick Matej

Bob Dylan as a modern-day prophet

In his new book, political theorist and professor Jeffrey Green takes a unique view of the famous musician.

From Omnia

Using AI to map research in the School of Arts & Sciences
Screenshot of University Atlas Project visualization.

Colin Twomey created the University Atlas Project, showing the thematic commonalities between research publications from current faculty in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Viewers can search for publications by department, faculty member, program affiliation, keyword, or year. The map can be viewed at uatlas.com/penn/sas

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Using AI to map research in the School of Arts & Sciences

Colin Twomey of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative applied a large language model to create a color-coded, interactive map of publications from current SAS faculty.
New books from Wharton faculty
Stacks of new books.

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New books from Wharton faculty

The latest installments of The Wharton School’s faculty research podcast, “Ripple Effect,” showcases recent books on leadership, customer service, immigration, and the power of data.

From Knowledge at Wharton

Showing up for Penn in London
Penn president J. Larry Jameson speaking at a microphone in London.

Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson addresses the audience at Penn’s academic symposium in London on Friday, June 21, 2024.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Giving)

Showing up for Penn in London

A capacity audience attended an academic symposium in London titled “Frontiers of Knowledge and Discovery: Leading in a Changing World.”
Redlining and rentals
An aerial view of the Park Forest housing development outside of Chicago in the 1950s.

Aerial view of a Park Forest neighborhood in 1952 that captures the neat rows of homes that characterized the post-World War II housing boom in the planned community.

(Image: Owen Kent via the Chicago Historical Society)

Redlining and rentals

Historian Brent Cebul in the School of Arts & Sciences is working on a new digital mapping project looking at the impact of Federal Housing Administration policies on the availability of affordable rental housing post-World War II. 

Kristen de Groot

Protecting against burnout
Kandi Wiens.

Kandi Wiens is the co-director of the Penn Master’s in Medical Education program.

(Image: Robbie Quinn/Penn GSE Magazine)

Protecting against burnout

Penn GSE’s Kandi Wiens’ latest book aims to help readers build resilience to stress and heal their relationship to work.

Penn pioneers a ‘one-pot platform’ to promptly produce mRNA delivery particles
3D illustration showing cross-section of the lipid nanoparticle carrying mRNA of the virus entering a human cell.

Lipid nanoparticles present one of the most advanced drug delivery platforms to shuttle promising therapeutics such as mRNA but are limited by the time it takes to synthesize cationic lipids, a key component. Now, Michael Mitchell and his team at the School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a faster way to make cationic lipids that are also more versatile, able to carry different kinds of treatments to target specific organs.

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Penn pioneers a ‘one-pot platform’ to promptly produce mRNA delivery particles

New lipid platform enables rapid synthesis of molecules that can shuttle therapeutics for a range of diseases with a high degree of organ specificity.
Takeaways from the U.K. elections
Keir Starmer shakes hands with supporters holding signs that say Change and look like the UK flag.

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer with his supporters at the Tate Modern in London on July 5, 2024.

(Image: AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Takeaways from the U.K. elections

Political scientist Brendan O’Leary of the School of Arts & Sciences offers his take on the Labour Party’s landslide victory and what it means going forward.

Kristen de Groot