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This symposium—the culmination of the 2026 Penn LDI Summer Undergraduate Mentored Research Program (SUMR)—will spotlight the participating SUMR scholars and their faculty mentors, featuring presentations about their mentor-directed research work. Free and open to the public.
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Penn Forward’s initial nine priority initiatives aim to build trust with those we serve, enable bold discovery, and extend Penn’s geographic reach and impact across a lifetime. Learn more about these initiatives and follow along with Penn Today as Penn continues to drive forward.
“Supply chain spillovers due to heat upstream actually lead to measurable downstream firm valuation impacts,” says R. Jisung Park of the School of Social Policy & Practice and the Wharton School.
“We know that media coverage and celebrity coverage can play a role in the development and maintenance of eating disorders, and that it’s a major risk factor for the development of body image concerns,” says Rebecca Boswell of the Perelman School of Medicine.
“This policy energy reflects a profound concern with what technology is doing to us,” says Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences, who worked on a study focusing on U.S. school cellphone bans.
“Time can be an excellent diagnostic test,” writes Jeffrey Millstein of the Perelman School of Medicine in a guest essay, explaining that extensive diagnostic testing and scans can actually cloud a clinical picture more than help, despite advice that AI-powered chatbots tend to give.