Penn’s endowment, explained nocred Penn’s endowment, explained From financial aid to faculty salaries, Penn’s endowment provides perpetual support for generations of Penn students, staff, and faculty. Here’s how it all works. 3 min. read
Combining AI and artmaking for youth well-being Eileen Feng, a graduate student in the Integrated Product Design, inside Tangen Hall. nocred Combining AI and artmaking for youth well-being Through a community-led partnership project, graduate student Eileen Feng and an interdisciplinary, cross-school team are working with local youth to tailor an AI-supported platform for healing through creative arts.
Philadelphians push the city to do more to plant and protect trees WHYY (Philadelphia) Philadelphians push the city to do more to plant and protect trees Perelman School of Medicine student Gyan Moorthy says that an exemption to tree planting requirements near certain affordable housing developments in Philadelphia denies the benefits of trees to an already vulnerable population. Unearthing the secrets of an ancient Greek city Underneath layers of built-up dirt, Mantha Zarmakoupi and colleagues began to uncover the tiled edge of at least two mosaics, spread across separate rooms dating back to the 3rd century BCE. One that stood out depicted two fighting cupids (top), figures of Eros, the Greek god of love, whose imagery is related to Dionysos, the Greek god of wine and the patron deity of Teos, with a major temple in the city.(Image: Courtesy of Teos Archaeological Project) Unearthing the secrets of an ancient Greek city Classical archaeologist and architectural historian Mantha Zarmakoupi has spent the past four summers excavating the ruins of a city council building at the center of Teos in western Türkiye. Building tomorrow’s innovators: Penn’s Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows Program David Bakalov, center, hopes to leverage his Fellows experience to develop new medical treatments.nocred Building tomorrow’s innovators: Penn’s Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows Program The Sugi and Millie Widjaja Engineering Entrepreneurship Fellows Program matches 12 Penn students with mentors to learn what it takes to transform ideas into potential companies. Can surface fractures on Earth, Mars, and Europa predict habitability on other planets? (On homepage) A global view of Jupiter’s moon Europa displaying extensive surface fractures—long, curving lines carved into the ice by tidal forces from Jupiter. These cracks hint at dynamic activity beneath Europa’s frozen shell and may provide clues about the moon’s potentially habitable subsurface ocean.(Image: Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech) Can surface fractures on Earth, Mars, and Europa predict habitability on other planets? Geophysicist Douglas Jerolmack has used the mathematical framework developed for understanding fracture patterns on Earth to survey two-dimensional fracture networks across the solar system, which could offer insights into detecting potentially habitable environments on other planets. Exploring the role of AI in palliative care and decision-making nocred Exploring the role of AI in palliative care and decision-making Working with professors George Demiris and Connie Ulrich, Penn Nursing Ph.D. student Oonjee Oh is investigating the role of AI in end-of-life care from technological and ethical perspectives. How news coverage distorts America’s leading causes of death Image: iStock/oatawa How news coverage distorts America’s leading causes of death A new study from the Annenberg School for Communication shows how media coverage of sensational risks underemphasized chronic illnesses. Quantum communications Leveraging principles of quantum mechanics to securely transmit messages has promised a revolution in encryption, keeping sensitive information secure. Now, a collaborative team of researchers including the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Liang Feng and Ph.D. candidate Yichi Zhang have developed a system that enables more stable, robust, high-efficiency, and long-range quantum communication—paving the way for practical, high-dimensional quantum networks.(Image: Courtesy of Jian Fan) Quantum communications Penn and CUNY researchers collaborated to develop a device that uses quantum principles to relay information securely—an advance that could improve encryption in critical service areas like banking and health care. How British settlers used children as tools of settlement in the British Atlantic Image: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers; Library of Congress How British settlers used children as tools of settlement in the British Atlantic Erica Duncan’s research at Penn’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies focuses on how children became essential to shaping ideas of freedom within the Black Atlantic.
Unearthing the secrets of an ancient Greek city Underneath layers of built-up dirt, Mantha Zarmakoupi and colleagues began to uncover the tiled edge of at least two mosaics, spread across separate rooms dating back to the 3rd century BCE. One that stood out depicted two fighting cupids (top), figures of Eros, the Greek god of love, whose imagery is related to Dionysos, the Greek god of wine and the patron deity of Teos, with a major temple in the city.(Image: Courtesy of Teos Archaeological Project) Unearthing the secrets of an ancient Greek city Classical archaeologist and architectural historian Mantha Zarmakoupi has spent the past four summers excavating the ruins of a city council building at the center of Teos in western Türkiye.
Building tomorrow’s innovators: Penn’s Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows Program David Bakalov, center, hopes to leverage his Fellows experience to develop new medical treatments.nocred Building tomorrow’s innovators: Penn’s Widjaja Entrepreneurship Fellows Program The Sugi and Millie Widjaja Engineering Entrepreneurship Fellows Program matches 12 Penn students with mentors to learn what it takes to transform ideas into potential companies.
Can surface fractures on Earth, Mars, and Europa predict habitability on other planets? (On homepage) A global view of Jupiter’s moon Europa displaying extensive surface fractures—long, curving lines carved into the ice by tidal forces from Jupiter. These cracks hint at dynamic activity beneath Europa’s frozen shell and may provide clues about the moon’s potentially habitable subsurface ocean.(Image: Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech) Can surface fractures on Earth, Mars, and Europa predict habitability on other planets? Geophysicist Douglas Jerolmack has used the mathematical framework developed for understanding fracture patterns on Earth to survey two-dimensional fracture networks across the solar system, which could offer insights into detecting potentially habitable environments on other planets.
Exploring the role of AI in palliative care and decision-making nocred Exploring the role of AI in palliative care and decision-making Working with professors George Demiris and Connie Ulrich, Penn Nursing Ph.D. student Oonjee Oh is investigating the role of AI in end-of-life care from technological and ethical perspectives.
How news coverage distorts America’s leading causes of death Image: iStock/oatawa How news coverage distorts America’s leading causes of death A new study from the Annenberg School for Communication shows how media coverage of sensational risks underemphasized chronic illnesses.
Quantum communications Leveraging principles of quantum mechanics to securely transmit messages has promised a revolution in encryption, keeping sensitive information secure. Now, a collaborative team of researchers including the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Liang Feng and Ph.D. candidate Yichi Zhang have developed a system that enables more stable, robust, high-efficiency, and long-range quantum communication—paving the way for practical, high-dimensional quantum networks.(Image: Courtesy of Jian Fan) Quantum communications Penn and CUNY researchers collaborated to develop a device that uses quantum principles to relay information securely—an advance that could improve encryption in critical service areas like banking and health care.
How British settlers used children as tools of settlement in the British Atlantic Image: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers; Library of Congress How British settlers used children as tools of settlement in the British Atlantic Erica Duncan’s research at Penn’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies focuses on how children became essential to shaping ideas of freedom within the Black Atlantic.