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Coming up clutch with Jana Dweek
Penn Medicine, CHOP team awarded Breakthrough Prize for developing gene therapy for inherited blindness
Voting is linked to living longer
Five from Penn elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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The performing arts at Penn: process, practice, and purpose
Ani Liu: Motherhood, microplastics, and her multimedia works on display
The art of retelling ancient stories: A Q&A with Steven Weitzman
Music, friendship, and a podcast on the side
Who, What, Why: Alicia Meyer on the wonders of the Kislak Center
Studying Shakespeare through the lens of love
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Weitzman externships in retrospect: Harisa Martinos
Voting is linked to living longer
Damon Centola named 2026 Guggenheim Fellow
Exploring the history of North American pastels
New faculty explore how individual minds influence group behavior
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Tracing the evolving law and business of TV
Five things to know about private credit
Where economic modeling meets real-world legislation
A look inside the political economy of early America
Wharton faculty on love, finance, AI, and the Olympics
Allison Hoffman: Connecting health care policy to people’s lives
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The science of winemaking
Making ‘light’ work of computing
What happens when an iceberg melts?
Gravity follows Newton and Einstein’s rules, even at cosmic scales
The Artemis II mission: Reflections on an ever-evolving relationship with space exploration
Caitlyn Chen’s path to becoming a physician-scientist
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Where computer graphics, computer vision, and AI meet
A new swarm AI project takes on safety at scale
René Vidal: Taking AI to the next level
Penn’s newest supercomputer is transforming research
Robots that can see around corners using radio signals and AI
Engineers sharpen gene-editing tools to target cystic fibrosis
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Pet first aid training comes to the rescue
How a free medical telesimulation platform is saving children’s lives
Blood test predicts kidney failure risk to Black Americans years before onset
Fighting oral cancer with bioengineered chewing gum
Penn Medicine, CHOP team awarded Breakthrough Prize for developing gene therapy for inherited blindness
A new hub for AI-driven RNA research
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Coming up clutch with Jana Dweek
Five from Penn elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
A spring outlook on campus
Awards, accolades, and honors across the Penn community
Class of 2026 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prize winners announced
For rowing’s Cole Riedinger, leadership is about responsibility
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Financing resilience for ocean economies
Learning from the practitioners of statecraft
Spring Intercultural Ventures explore geopolitics and economic change on the ground
Expert viewpoints on the Iran war
Solar solutions for farmers in The Gambia
Understanding Japan’s snap elections
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Beating the heat: Designing cooling for bodies in motion
Dorit Aviv, director of Weitzman’s Thermal Architecture Lab, studies how humans, technology, and design intersect, paving the way for the development of novel approaches to cooling people efficiently.
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