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An innovative AI tool to improve health care delivery in rural India
Fourth-year student Prithvi Parthasarathy standing with arms crossed in the Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building

Fourth-year neuroscience major Prithvi Parthasarathy is dedicated to innovating health care delivery.

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An innovative AI tool 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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Understanding Japan’s snap elections
People walk in front of an election notice board displaying posters of candidates for the Lower House elections on the day of the election campaign kick-off on January 27, 2026 in Kobe, Japan.

Image: Buddhika Weerasinghe / Stringer via Getty Images

Understanding Japan’s snap elections

Perry World House Distinguished Visiting Fellow Mami Mizutori discusses the upcoming elections and their implications for Japanese policy and politics.

From Perry World House

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Perspectives and insight on Venezuela

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.

From Omnia

Iran at a crossroads
Four women walk through Tehran underneath a billboard.

Iran is functioning under an Internet communications blackout, which has strained economic and family ties, says Penn’s Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet.

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Iran at a crossroads

In a Q&A, Penn historian Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, an expert on Iran and the modern Middle East, speaks about the Iranian opposition movement, current protests, the Islamic Republic’s crackdown, and daily life in the country.

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Bringing COP30 from Brazil into Penn classrooms
The exterior of the building for COP30.

Image: Courtesy of COP30

Bringing COP30 from Brazil into Penn classrooms

Penn Carey Law professors Bill Burke-White and Ken Kulak attended COP30, this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, and incorporated their experiences into their International Climate Change and Energy Law and Climate Change courses.

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Florencia Polite: Healer, educator, advocate
Florencia Polite.

Florencia Polite, Penn Medicine’s chief of Academic Specialists in Obstetrics and Gynecology and vice chair of the department’s clinical operations.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News)

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.

From Penn Medicine News

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Rabies resurgence in Peru highlights global threats of health inequity
An ambulance in Peru.

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Rabies resurgence in Peru highlights global threats of health inequity

A Penn Medicine analysis shows that surveillance of dog rabies in Arequipa, Peru, is lacking in areas with lower socioeconomic status and could spell problems for infectious disease worldwide.

Frank Otto

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