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.
In the Brachio Lab, doctoral students at Penn Engineering probe AI models for signs of cyberbullying capabilities. This emerging problem with the rise of AI may pose challenges in areas like business, education, and public health.
Penn Carey Law student Jaehyung Ahn shares his goals and experiences while earning an LLM degree.
Among those in the photo of the Penn Law School Class of 1883 is Caroline Burnham Kilgore, the first women to gain admission to and graduate from the law school. She became the first female lawyer in Pennsylvania.
From financial aid to faculty salaries, Penn’s endowment provides perpetual support for generations of Penn students, staff, and faculty. Here’s how it all works.
Through a community-led partnership project, graduate student Eileen Feng and an interdisciplinary, cross-school team are working with local youth to tailor an AI-supported platform for healing through creative arts.
Classical archaeologist and architectural historian Mantha Zarmakoupi has spent the past four summers excavating the ruins of a city council building at the center of Teos in western Türkiye.
Geophysicist Douglas Jerolmack has used the mathematical framework developed for understanding fracture patterns on Earth to survey two-dimensional fracture networks across the solar system, which could offer insights into detecting potentially habitable environments on other planets.
The Sugi and Millie Widjaja Engineering Entrepreneurship Fellows Program matches 12 Penn students with mentors to learn what it takes to transform ideas into potential companies.
Working with professors George Demiris and Connie Ulrich, Penn Nursing Ph.D. student Oonjee Oh is investigating the role of AI in end-of-life care from technological and ethical perspectives.
A new study from the Annenberg School for Communication shows how media coverage of sensational risks underemphasized chronic illnesses.
Penn and CUNY researchers collaborated to develop a device that uses quantum principles to relay information securely—an advance that could improve encryption in critical service areas like banking and health care.
Erica Duncan’s research at Penn’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies focuses on how children became essential to shaping ideas of freedom within the Black Atlantic.
Students from the Weitzman School of Design journeyed to Senegal to help with an ambitious ecological and infrastructural greening effort as part of their coursework. The Dakar Greenbelt aims to combat desertification and promote sustainable urban growth.
Penn researchers use temperature to guide cellular behavior, promising better diagnostics and targeted therapies.
Researchers combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe’s evolutionary history and found that it may have become ‘messier and complicated’ than expected in recent years.
Penn Carey Law’s Legislative Clinic, now in its 28th year, offers students the chance to gain a new perspective by delving into the legislative process by which those laws are crafted.
Madison Ogletree, a McNeil Center for Early American Studies Consortium Dissertation Fellow, explains her deep dive into law and the everyday lives of free African Americans in rural areas of the slave South.
PIK Professor Roberts designed her Penn Carey Law course around a reproductive justice framework, which extends far beyond access to abortion.
In her research, Marley Lix-Jones, an Advisory Council Dissertation Fellow at the McNeil Center, finds histories of rebellion and social connections within enslaved communities.
Julian Lutz will graduate in May with an MPA from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in addition to his JD from the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School.
In a joint class within the School of Social Policy & Practice and the Annenberg School for Communication, PIK professor Desmond Upton Patton invites students to dream big in Journey to Joy: Designing a Happier Life.
The doctoral candidate with the Penn Research in Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems Engineering Center at Penn Engineering is revolutionizing real-time systems on modern multicore computers.
Jameel Janjua discusses his interest in spaceflight, the fastest aircraft he has flown, the effect of supersonic speed on the body, attending Wharton, and his first time in space.
The new graduate degree from the Department of Criminology and the College of Liberal & Professional Studies will begin next fall. It aims to teach evidence-based research to foster more equitable practices.
Doctoral student Kelsey Swingle developed a lipid nanoparticle that delivers an mRNA therapeutic that reduces maternal blood pressure through the end of gestation and improves fetal health and blood circulation in the placenta.
In recognition of the end of Steven J. Fluharty’s term as dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, a look at the School’s growth and innovation over 12 years.
Tiny tire particles discharge into the environment every time a vehicle brakes, accelerates, or rounds a curve. In a UN brief, geochemist Reto Gieré and colleagues aim to educate the world about this lesser-known environmental obstacle.
Psychologist Joe Kable examined how lesions in specific parts of the prefrontal cortex reveal the brain’s strategies for managing delayed gratification.
Ph.D. candidate Chelsea Cohen, a historical and maritime archaeologist in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences, combines terrestrial and underwater methods in her research of historical port cities, agroforestry, and maritime culture.
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