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  • AI Across Disciplines event highlights the power of ‘breadth and connectivity’ at universities
    AI Across Disciplines panelists on stage engaged in conversation.

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    From left: Bhuvnesh Jain, Marylyn Ritchie, Dawn Bonnell, René Vidal, Duncan Watts, and Lynn Wu. 

    AI Across Disciplines event highlights the power of ‘breadth and connectivity’ at universities

    At a cross-disciplinary gathering at Amy Gutmann Hall, the Penn community celebrated the launch of the Penn AI Initiative with a panel discussing AI research at Penn—and writ large.

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    Who, What, Why: Lorea Peterson Redondo bridges business and education
    Lorea Peterson Redondo poses in front of the GSE and Wharton buildings.

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    Lorea Peterson Redondo, who is working toward an MBA in the Wharton School and a master's in education policy in the Graduate School of Education.

    Who, What, Why: Lorea Peterson Redondo bridges business and education

    Peterson, a graduate student in the Wharton School and the Graduate School of Education who will graduate in May, hopes to bring lessons learned back to her hometown of Mexico City.

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    Measles: An explainer
     Judy O’Donnell.

    Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine

    Measles: An explainer

    Judy O’Donnell, the associate chief medical officer for Healthcare Epidemiology for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and the chief of Infectious Diseases at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, explains what people need to know about measles.

    How climate change impacts food security

    How climate change impacts food security

    Perry World House’s ‘Feeding a Climate-Changed World’ conference brought together climate experts to discuss democracy, human rights, and the geopolitics of food security.

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    AI Month at Penn

    AI Month at Penn

    From April 1 to May 1, Penn Engineering will host leading experts, insightful discussions, and interactive workshops exploring on the impact of artificial intelligence on society.

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  • Five Penn third-year students are 2025 Goldwater Scholars
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    (Images: Courtesy of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships)

    The Penn 2025 Goldwater Scholars are third-year students (left to right, top to bottom) Tristen Brisky, Caitlyn Chen, Kason Kunkelmann, Nayoon Justina Lee, and Colby Snyder.

    Five Penn third-year students are 2025 Goldwater Scholars

    Goldwater Scholarships are awarded to students planning research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering.

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    Flying high with the Penn Aerial Robotics club
    A robotic aerial drone on Penn’s Locust Walk.

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    Flying high with the Penn Aerial Robotics club

    For more than a decade, Penn students have been building and competing with unmanned aerial vehicles. They unveil their latest creations, an autonomous drone-like tilt-rotor aircraft and a model plane, before they head to an international competition in Los Angeles this spring.

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    Fran McCaffery named new men’s basketball coach
    Coach Fran McAffery on a basketball court.

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    Fran McCaffery named new men’s basketball coach

    The announcement marks a return to University City for McCaffery, who played three seasons for the Quakers and is a 1982 alumnus of the Wharton School.

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    https://in-principle-and-practice.upenn.edu/
    Students walk beneath The Covenant on Locust Walk at dusk

    In Principle and Practice

    Penn’s strategic framework

    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.

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    Rachel Liu, a first-year doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education.

    ‘JeepyTA’ has entered the chat

    At Penn’s Graduate School of Education, the Penn Center for Learning Analytics is piloting an AI teaching assistant that fields students’ syllabus questions, generates assignment feedback, and eases the stress of instructors’ and TAs’ emailing schedules.

    Celebrating five years of excellence at VinUniversity
    Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson in a lab examining a piece of equipment.

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    Celebrating five years of excellence at VinUniversity

    Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson visited VinUni in Hanoi, Vietnam, to commemorate the university’s fifth anniversary and Penn’s seventh year of allyship. He delivered a lecture about how excellent universities advance society.

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  • Is art appreciation going digital?
    Psychology Today

    Is art appreciation going digital?

    Anjan Chatterjee of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues compared aesthetic experiences of art across digital and in-person settings.