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(From left) Zachary Ives, Zixuan Yi, and Ryan Marcus.

Improving AI and machine learning

Zixuan Yi, a doctoral student in computer and information science, bridges the gap between learning methods and real-world system constraints utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning.

4/24/2025
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A nontraditional journey to dental school

Kendra Domotor may have ‘zigzagged’ her way to dentistry, but her journey helped her find her center in dentistry, helping her blend her love of science, teaching, and service.

4/21/2025
Penn Carey Law students in a classroom.

Teaching crisis negotiation

Each spring, the U.S. Army War College holds an International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise at Penn Carey Law, designed to engage and educate law students in the process of crisis negotiation at the strategic level.

4/10/2025
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The Wharton School introduces new undergraduate concentration and MBA major in artificial intelligence for business

The degree is designed to address the world’s growing demand for AI-related skills and expertise, and ‘represents a bold step forward in our mission to prepare the next generation to responsibly lead in an AI-driven world,’ says Wharton dean Erika James. The curriculum includes courses on applied machine learning, data science, neuroscience, data engineering, statistics, and ethics.

4/4/2025
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Penn’s endowment, explained

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.

3/17/2025
Eileen Feng leans against a pole.

Combining AI and artmaking for youth well-being

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.

3/7/2025
Two ancient mosaics recently unearthed.

Unearthing the secrets of an ancient Greek city

Classical archaeologist and architectural historian Mantha Zarmakoupi from the School of Arts & Sciences has spent the past four summers excavating the ruins of a city council building at the center of Teos in western Türkiye.

3/5/2025
 3D rendering of artist's interpretation of quantum entanglement.

Quantum communications

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.

2/7/2025
People gather around a large map placed on the floor.

Turning the desert into an oasis

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.

1/31/2025
Dark energy telescope with star trails

A less clumpy, more complex universe?

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.

1/22/2025
A historic photo of someone cutting the grass of a plantation in the Antebellum South.

The law in the 19th-century American South

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.

1/16/2025
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The versatility of the JD/MPA degree

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.

1/6/2025
A handwritten Joy Map on a table.

Journey to Joy

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.

12/20/2024
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