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Natural Sciences

Mapping the expanding cosmos: Dark Energy Survey unveils clearest picture yet

The Dark Energy Survey collaborative, including Penn researchers, recently released an analysis that gives the clearest picture yet of how dark energy is driving the universe’s expansion and how matter—including galaxies and groups of galaxies—has been organized over cosmic time.

Military veterans saluting the American flag on Penn’s campus. Campus & Community

Penn announces new partnership with Service to School to support veteran and military-affiliated applicants

A 1700s etching of Boston Business & Law

A look inside the political economy of early America

David Meaney leaning against a door in Penn's College Hall. Campus & Community

David Meaney on Penn’s research enterprise

Katelyn Candido sitting on a staircase, smiling and facing forward, wearing a white coat and blue scrubs in the Perelman School of Medicine Health & Medicine

Who, What, Why: Katelyn Candido on improving surgical procedures and keeping health care human-first

Zitong Lan, Haowen Lai and Mingmin Zhao with a robot in a lab. Technology

Robots that can see around corners using radio signals and AI

MORE NEWS VIA PENN TODAY Alicia Meyer talks to students in Technology and Society course. Arts & Humanities

Who, What, Why: Alicia Meyer on the wonders of the Kislak Center

A professor standing at the head of a table talking to students. Arts & Humanities

Studying Shakespeare through the lens of love

Students and faculty look at rare books in the Lea Library. Arts & Humanities

Exploring ‘One Thousand and One Nights’

Dag Woubeshet (right) speaks with student in a classroom who is giving the thumbs up. Arts & Humanities

Literature and medicine

Handwritten notes and paper relics from TV shows in the past. Arts & Humanities

An inside look at the history of television

Album cover for My Mother In Love's “The Summer Sessions” Arts & Humanities

The professor who moonlights as a songwriter

MORE NEWS VIA PENN TODAY Matthew Levendusky. Social Sciences

Matthew Levendusky on civics, partisan politics, and teaching public opinion

People working on a laptop and a screen looking at climate initiatives. Social Sciences

How markets can help society adapt to climate change

Marcia Chatelain Social Sciences

Exploring Black America: A historian’s unique path of inquiry

Max Taylor, a Hopi ethnobotanist, leads students on a site visit at the Hopi First Mesa Consolidated Villages. Social Sciences

Designing opportunities, not solutions, in Northeast Arizona

Khalaf and Hamdya pose with their son Hegar in Sinjar’s old district. Social Sciences

For Yezidi, historic images and cultural restoration

Two people unpacking boxes of Narcan in a rural community. Social Sciences

Transforming community health and social connections in rural areas of the US

VISIT PENN TODAY Sign up for the Penn Today Newsletter Kent Smetters and another person looking at a whiteboard Business & Law

Where economic modeling meets real-world legislation

A 1700s etching of Boston Business & Law

A look inside the political economy of early America

An Olympic skiier making a heart sign with their hands post ski run at the Winter Olympics. Business & Law

Wharton faculty on love, finance, AI, and the Olympics

Dorothy Roberts and the cover of her new book “The Mixed Marriage Project” Business & Law

Dorothy Roberts’ memoir on interracial families in America

Traders at the New York Stock Exchange looking at monitors. Business & Law

Is there an AI bubble and what happens if it bursts?

Tricia Rojo Bushnell direct to camera. Business & Law

Using data to drive criminal justice reform

MORE NEWS VIA PENN TODAY Terrestrial telescope in Chile under a starlit sky. Natural Sciences

Mapping the expanding cosmos: Dark Energy Survey unveils clearest picture yet

Human X chromosomes, karyotype, structure, division in genetic biological study Natural Sciences

How ancient attraction shaped the human genome

Rendering of the human body on a bicycle and the brain and skeletal system highlighted. Natural Sciences

No brain, no gain: Neuronal activity enhances benefits of exercise

Srishti Jainapur recording the temperature on a freezer. Natural Sciences

Green Lab’s Freezer Inventory Project: Turning a ripple of change into a wave

High-speed images of raindrops rolling on a sandy slope, forming peanut-shaped sandballs (top) and donut-shaped sandballs with hollow centers (bottom). Natural Sciences

Raindrop-formed ‘sandballs’ that erode hillsides tenfold

Artist rendering of several people conected with string stretch their connections to the limit, testing the strength of unity. Natural Sciences

How to incentivize problem solving in groups

VISIT PENN TODAY Sign up for the Penn Today Newsletter Zitong Lan, Haowen Lai and Mingmin Zhao with a robot in a lab. Technology

Robots that can see around corners using radio signals and AI

Engineering researchers at a whiteboard in the Gao lab. Technology

Engineers sharpen gene-editing tools to target cystic fibrosis

Two workers in a lab working on cooling structures. Technology

Beating the heat: Designing cooling for bodies in motion

Jean Bartik (left) and Frances Spence operating the ENIAC’s main control panel in 1946. Technology

Penn’s ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer, turns 80

Chris Callison-Burch teaching in a classroom. Technology

Chris Callison-Burch: 25 years of AI innovation

Kevin Johnson seated at his desk with a computer and Karen O'Connor, seated at his desk, both testing the new equipment. Technology

An AI tool to help better understand medical visits

MORE NEWS VIA TODAY David Holt Health & Medicine

David Holt is making cancer visible

Katelyn Candido sitting on a staircase, smiling and facing forward, wearing a white coat and blue scrubs in the Perelman School of Medicine Health & Medicine

Who, What, Why: Katelyn Candido on improving surgical procedures and keeping health care human-first

Deborah Burnham. Health & Medicine

She helps patients find their words to cast a spell on cancer

Three researchers in a greenhouse full of lettuce heads. Health & Medicine

Novel plant-based approach to a better, cheaper GLP-1 delivery system

Rendering of a blood drop with a genetic DNA code inside. Health & Medicine

First CRISPR-based platform to pinpoint leukemia drivers

Rebecca Boswell speaking with three people. Health & Medicine

Cancer care for the mind and spirit

MORE NEWS VIA PENN TODAY College Hall in spring with Fisher Fine Arts Library. Campus & Community

Awards and accolades for six members of Penn faculty

Military veterans saluting the American flag on Penn’s campus. Campus & Community

Penn announces new partnership with Service to School to support veteran and military-affiliated applicants

David Meaney leaning against a door in Penn's College Hall. Campus & Community

David Meaney on Penn’s research enterprise

Michael Beschloss Campus & Community

Historian, scholar, and best-selling author Michael Beschloss to speak at Penn’s 270th Commencement

Mark Trodden. Campus & Community

Four ways Penn Arts & Sciences is looking to the future

Statue of Ben Franklin on a bench in the snow. Campus & Community

Awards and accolades for Penn faculty and graduate students

MORE NEWS VIA PENN TODAY A person carries an Iranian flag to place on the site of an attack. Global

Expert viewpoints on the Iran war

A group photo in front of a borehole drilling machine at Alna Farms in Gambia. Global

Solar solutions for farmers in The Gambia

Fourth-year student Prithvi Parthasarathy standing with arms crossed in the Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building Global

Prithvi Parthasarathy: Using AI to improve health care delivery in rural India

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. Global

Understanding Japan’s snap elections

The exterior of the building for COP30. Global

Bringing COP30 from Brazil into Penn classrooms

Florencia Polite. Global

Florencia Polite: Healer, educator, advocate

VISIT PENN TODAY Sign up for the Penn Today Newsletter greenland melting glaciers

Natural Sciences

A massive chunk of ice, a new laser, and new information on sea-level rise

For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.

LEARN MORE Mar 15 The Peking Acrobats performing acrobatics on stage. The group is wearing bright orange, yellow, and red outfits. Theater

Penn Live Arts: The Peking Acrobats

The Peking Acrobats push the limits of human ability, wowing audiences with spellbinding trick-cycling, precision tumbling, juggling, somersaulting, and gymnastics. With a three-decade legacy of elite talent, this world-record-setting troupe takes ancient Chinese traditions to new heights, pairing artful athleticism with live music and festive pageantry. Students can receive a discount with Penn ID.

Mar 16 Abstract scan of brain overlapping a computer chip network. Talks

Ghosts of the Machine

During this Public Trust event, UCLA professor of cinema and media studies Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli and film scholar Nora Alter will discuss the human figure and its representation in the age of AI. They will explore how AI techniques have done more than simply recycle the dead and the living by repurposing old audiovisual materials. Free and open to the public. Register to attend.

Mar 17 Exterior of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, including sculptures near the building entrance Special Events

Research at Weitzman 2026

From climate change to cultural heritage at risk, accelerating biodiversity loss to social inequality, Weitzman School of Design faculty members are engaged with some of the most pressing issues of the day. This exhibition highlights more than 30 research projects from across the Weitzman School that are advancing architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, and urban planning with support from public funders and/or industry partners. Free and open to the public.

Ends March 20, 2026 MORE EVENTS VIA PENN TODAY

Federal Government Updates

Penn is closely monitoring federal policy changes affecting institutions of higher education and academic health systems.

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Title IX Compliance in Athletics

Penn's Title IX Resolution with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights

Learn More Students beneath the large sculpture of the Penn shield at Penn Commons, framed by brilliant fall foliage.

Penn Forward

Students passing beneath the massive 'Covenant' sculpture on Locust Walk

In Principle & Practice

mark alan hughes at the kleinman center

Climate and Sustainability Action Plan

karen detlefsen classroom with west philly children

Campaign for Community

singh nano clean room

Research & Innovation

Penn Alum Jarcy Zee & Parag Mahajan at their wedding at the Penn Museum

Love and learning have a way of finding each other. Sending a Valentine’s Day shoutout to Penn couples whose stories are forever tied to campus.

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Yue Yang, a @pennengineering Ph.D. graduate, co-developed CoSyn, a tool that trains open-source AI models to read complex images, with the potential to spur scientific discoveries across domains like financial market forecasting or medical diagram interpretation.

Threads @uofpenn Homer from the animated show "The Simpsons" eating water ice on a boat with the words "U. Penn" written on it.

Wooder ice, Wawa, and cheesesteaks weren't the only familiar sights popping up on last night's Philly-centric episode of The Simpsons.

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