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.
Two 2025 project grants and a fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
WXPN and the Institute for Contemporary Art each received creative project grants and filmmaker Sosena Solomon, who teaches in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, was named a 2025 Pew Fellow.
Early immune clues could help detect and prevent type 1 diabetes
Researchers from Penn Medicine have uncovered new clues in pancreas lymph nodes and the spleen that may stop the disease before insulin is lost forever.
Penn Forward’s Access, Affordability, and Value co-chairs on creating opportunity
As co-chairs of Penn Forward’s Access, Affordability, and Value working group, Sara Bachman, dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice, and Patrick Harker, a professor and dean emeritus of the Wharton School, discuss breaking down barriers and opening pathways.
An ‘illuminating’ design sheds light on cholesterol
By building light-controlled cholesterol ‘look-alikes,’ a Penn-led team creates new tools to track and tune an essential molecule, uncovering selective inhibitors for elusive transport proteins and pointing toward smarter drug delivery.
Using a novel approach, Penn Vet’s Chris Lengner and M. Andrés Blanco and colleagues have identified two genes that suppress colorectal cancer metastasis.
Participants will explore the wide variety of conifers—both evergreen and deciduous—on display at the Morris Arboretum & Gardens. These notable specimens provide multi-seasonal interest with an array of forms, foliage, bark, and cones. Free with Penn ID.
Open to the public, this panel, organized by the Penn Institute for Urban Research and the Volcker Alliance, features Wharton professor Susan Wachter and Apollo's chief economist, Torsten Slok, on what is likely to be a year of immense adjustment for many U.S. states, counties, and cities amid federal cutbacks. Register to attend.
Penn’s guiding principles are the University’s enduring values and distinctive strengths: anchored, inventive, interwoven, and engaged. The practices support and strengthen Penn’s core educational mission.
At Penn Today, we focus on some of the ways the University is putting this framework into action. From student, faculty, and staff profiles to research updates and event coverage, Penn Today highlights the latest examples of the University’s principled approach to excellence.
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.
Through Penn First Plus, students unlock potential and purpose
Providing first-generation and limited-income students with a comprehensive array of support, Penn First Plus equips undergraduates for success during and after their time at Penn.
The eighth annual Penn Local Business Exchange brought together entrepreneurs, city officials, and University buyers to swap insights and build relationships.
Students test one way to combat extreme heat in Philadelphia
Third-year students Nafisa Bangura and Angelica Dadda expanded upon a multidisciplinary research endeavor to evaluate a reflective pavement coating as a tool to mitigate extreme heat. Their work may inform policy efforts to improve urban heat resilience.
N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy urges microplastics regulations in tap water. Can water providers meet the challenge?
Samantha McBride of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says most public water providers currently are not equipped to test for and treat microplastics because it’s expensive and time consuming.
