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A group photo in front of a borehole drilling machine at Alna Farms in Gambia.

Solar solutions for farmers in The Gambia

For students in Engineers Without Borders at Penn, collaborating with Gambian farmers to design an irrigation system is a way to both address food insecurity in the smallest country in mainland Africa and apply their knowledge from the classroom in the real world.

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Perry World House appears at annual Munich Security Conference

Perry World House (PWH) faculty director and University of Pennsylvania Richard Perry Professor Michael C. Horowitz co-hosted a side event at the Munich Security Council titled “Droning on: Rethinking Precision and the Future of Warfare,” which addressed critical issues for future investments in conventional and nuclear deterrence.

Fourth-year student Prithvi Parthasarathy standing with arms crossed in the Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building

Prithvi Parthasarathy: Using AI to improve health care delivery in rural India

Prithvi Parthasarathy, a fourth-year neuroscience major, designed an AI triage tool to improve hospital efficiency and patient care.

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Perspectives and insight on Venezuela

Four Penn Arts & Sciences experts gathered for a Knowledge by the Slice event to discuss what lies ahead for Venezuela, the U.S., and Latin America.

The Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations announces Transpacific and Asian Dialogue Fellows

Twenty-two leading scholars and experts from throughout the Asia-Pacific region comprise this new fellowship, which will contribute to policy deliberations over the novel and complex challenges posed by China’s rise on the world stage.

The Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations receives renewal grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York

The grant renewal allows the Project to build and expand on its mission of elevating new voices in U.S.-China policy discussion, and will convene three more fellowship cohorts in the coming years, beginning in Spring 2026.

Florencia Polite: Healer, educator, advocate

At home and overseas, Florencia Polite is on a mission to help patients and physicians understand how RSV vaccines protect newborns.

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Lauder Institute students looking at a scale model of a city.

A Lauder Institute intercultural venture in Oman and the UAE

Graduate students in the Lauder Intercultural Ventures program traveled from Oman to Dubai to learn about urban growth, trade, tourism, and development in areas entrenched in cultural history and with deep religious roots.

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Megan Ryerson and Zeke Emanuel together next to Perry World House.

A conversation with Penn Forward’s Global Opportunity and New Markets co-chairs

In a Q&A with Ezekiel Emanuel and Megan Ryerson, co-chairs of the Global Opportunity and New Markets working group for Penn Forward, the duo discuss the charge of their group, where they are in the process, and leaning into global engagement.

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The Future of US-China Relations announces undergraduate student fellows 2025-2026

The Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations has announced its second class of 10 undergraduate fellows who are integrated into the Project’s work of deepening U.S. capacity to understand and evaluate critical issues in the U.S.-China relationship.

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