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(Clockwise from bottom left) M. Susan Lindee, Marlyse Baptista, Jinbo Chen, George Cotsarelis, and Christopher B. Murray were elected 2024 AAAS Fellows.
Five from Penn elected 2024 AAAS Fellows
Image: Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library via Getty Images
Understanding the immune response to a persistent pathogen
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This year’s Women in STEM Symposium featured (left to right) Allyson Mackey of the School of Arts & Sciences, Melissa Kelly of Penn Center for Innovation, Ping Wang of the Perelman School of Medicine, and Vanessa Chan of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Modeling careers in STEM
Announcement
Welcome, admitted Class of 2029
Today, the University of Pennsylvania announced admission decisions for Regular Decision applicants to the Class of 2029 across Penn’s four undergraduate schools: the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Wharton School, and the School of Nursing. These remarkable students will comprise Penn’s 273rd undergraduate class.
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Penn Arts & Sciences receives $8M commitment from The Robert K. Johnson Foundation
(Image: Robert Ascroft)
Class of 1996 alumna Elizabeth Banks will address the Class of 2025 at Penn’s 269th Commencement on May 19.
Actor, director, producer, Penn alumna Elizabeth Banks to speak at 269th Commencement
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Helen Jin, a doctoral student at Penn Engineering, is project lead for the Brachio Lab’s AI cyberbullying capability case study.
Evaluating large language models for cyberbullying behavior
Featured Events
Boosting Health Through Economic Policy
This event, sponsored by Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, will involve a panel of experts discussing federal and state policies that improve economic stability and opportunity, as well as their effects on public health. Participants will learn about evidence-based policies that foster healthier communities.
Last spring, Penn students took Amtrak to Washington every Friday for the How Washington Really Works class, held at the Penn Biden Center, across from the U.S. Capitol.
Indigenous Voices in the Archives
Drawing on lessons learned from collaborating with Native American and First Nations peoples, Emily Jean Leischner, in-resident researcher at the Kislak Center for 2024-2025, will share stories and snippets from her initial survey of Indigenous knowledge in the archives—and propose directions for their future stewardship and engagement with the Indigenous communities it came from. Register to attend.
Eamon De Valera, the president of Ireland, shakes hands with members of Ojibwe tribe in Wisconsin during a 1919 tour of the United States.
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
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Celebrating five years of excellence at VinUniversity
(Image: Eric Sucar)
Penn Center for Innovation celebrates 10 years
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Penn receives $5M to create the first-of-its-kind professorship in philanthropy
Penn in the News
The invisible workforce: The hidden costs of care for an older adult
Rachel Werner of the Perelman School of Medicine and Leonard Davis Institute says that two-thirds of people older than 65 will need long-term care at some point in their lives.
CA-125 levels vary by patient race at ovarian cancer diagnosis
A study by Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues found that Black and American Indian patients are less likely to have elevated cancer antigen levels at ovarian cancer diagnosis.
If you think Homer’s poetry is stodgy and boring, you’ve never heard Emily Wilson’s version
Emily Wilson of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses her contemporary translation of Homer’s “Iliad.”
Should you get a measles booster? Here’s what to know
If vaccination records are not available, a person can get a blood test to see whether they have antibodies against certain viral infections like measles, says Joseph Teel of the Perelman School of Medicine.