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Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize
Winners of Penn’s 2025 Y-Prize holding their certificates.

The Stentix team (top) Summer Cobb and Amanda Kossoff, (bottom) Aarsha Shah and Elizabeth Jia, with judges (descending left) Matt Fitz-Henry, Jason Smith, Jennifer Gilburg, and Sasha Schrode, and (descending right) David Hsu, Gerald Lopez, and Dean Miller.

(Image: Courtesy of the William and Phyllis Mack Institute for Innovation Management)

Stentix wins the 2025 Y-Prize

The winning team of Penn Engineering’s annual award for entrepreneurial technology have created a noninvasive mechanism to adjust medical stent positioning using magnetic reconfiguration.

From the William and Phyllis Mack Institute for Innovation Management

‘Slow Burn’ and the daily consequences of climate change
A factory chimney spilling smoke into the sky.

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‘Slow Burn’ and the daily consequences of climate change

From lower test scores to higher crime rates, economist R. Jisung Park of the School of Social Policy & Practice looks at the daily consequences of climate change.

Kristina García

What the recent antitrust settlement means for the NCAA
Indianapolis - Circa March 2018: National Collegiate Athletic Association Headquarters. The NCAA regulates athletic programs of many colleges and universities II

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What the recent antitrust settlement means for the NCAA

Karen Weaver of Penn’s Graduate School of Education, an expert on college sports and higher education, discusses the NCAA settlement agreement and the effect it will have on student-athletes and college sports overall.
Continued access to emergency abortion care
Supreme Court building with a video camera pointed at the front steps.

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Continued access to emergency abortion care

In dismissing Moyle v. United States, Penn Carey Law’s Allison K. Hoffman says the Supreme Court took a “procedural punt” in allowing doctors in Idaho to continue providing emergency abortion care.

From Penn Carey Law

Public defender shortages
Image is of the Delaware County courthouse, a Classical Revival/Neo-Classical style building made of white marble,with a six column portico and clock in the pediment, located in Media, Pennsylvania.

The Delaware County courthouse is seen, Thursday Oct. 15, 2020, in Media, Pennsylvania.

(Image: AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

Public defender shortages

A new report by Paul Heaton, director of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, shows that nearly every county in Pennsylvania has a shortage of public defenders.

Kristen de Groot

Lauder students embark on odyssey through Georgia
Group of people huddled together in front of a mural.

Attendees of the Lauder Institute’s LIV trip to Georgia pose in front of the Russian Georgian Friendship Monument, erected by the Soviet Union in 1983 in northern Georgia. 

(Image: The Lauder Institute)

Lauder students embark on odyssey through Georgia

As part of the Lauder Institute’s Lauder Intercultural Ventures program, graduate students traveled to Georgia, to the Russian border, and beyond, learning about wine, language, historical reckonings, and more. 
Investing in future teachers and educational leaders
elementary age students with teacher

(On homepage) Patty Fox, a summer 2023 literacy teacher in the Office of School and Community Engagement works with students as part of the Graduate School of Education's summer academic program at the Lea School.

(Image: Joe McFetridge/courtesy of Penn GSE)

Investing in future teachers and educational leaders

The Empowerment Through Education Scholarship Program at Penn’s Graduate School of Education is helping to prepare and retain teachers and educational leaders.

Sarah Punderson

Going head-to-head with the new health care AI revolution
Hamsa Bastani.

Hamsa Bastani is the co-director of the new Wharton Healthcare Analytics Lab, a Penn LDI senior fellow, and an Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions at Wharton.

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Going head-to-head with the new health care AI revolution

Penn LDI senior fellow and Wharton School researcher Hamsa Bastani is the co-director of the Wharton Healthcare Analytics Lab, a new data initiative focused on health care delivery systems.

Hoag Levins