Researchers from Penn’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative and their collaborators conducted a megastudy to investigate whether low-cost nudges–informed by behavioral science–could help teachers accelerate student progress in math.
Gymnastics wins fourth straight GEC title in convincing fashion
In addition to their team championship, the Quakers had the highest team score in three of the four rotations, taking home four individual event titles.
A new study in Sciences Advances, co-authored by Penn Carey Law’s Michael Morse, introduces the concept of vote revelation, or the potential for a vote on an anonymous ballot to be linked to the voter’s name in the public voter file.
In collaboration with a foundation that breeds service dogs for the visually impaired, researchers at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Padova in Padova, Italy, have identified a novel variant associated with progressive retinal atrophy in three Labrador retrievers.
Penn announces the inaugural Draw Down the Lightning Grant recipients
Awardees include interwoven teams of faculty, students, postdoctoral scholars, and staff with projects anchored at eight schools and 10 academic and administrative centers.
A window into East Asian history: Conserving Buddhist murals
Penn Museum staff are restoring Buddhist murals that were crafted in a style prevalent between the 13th and 14th centuries, bringing renewed vibrancy to art from a distinct era of East Asian religious history.
Integrating a sociology education and love of portrait photography
Fourth-year Théa Kerekes developed a passion for photography long before she decided to study sociology, but the major has shaped how she sees the world.
Global engagement is critical to our mission as a leading research university, bringing the world to Penn and Penn to the world. Penn is committed to welcoming and supporting students, scholars, faculty, and staff from all over the world. We know that recent policy changes and actions related to immigration, visas, and travel are causing uncertainty and anxiety for many members of the Penn community. We are taking action to offer direct support to impacted community members, plan for disruptions caused by potential policy changes, and provide information to ensure that we can continue to support students, scholars, and others.
Yingyi Ma, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Asian/Asian American Studies Program at Syracuse University, will join Penn GSE faculty and staff for a conversation about the topic “Navigating Excellence and Uncertainty: Supporting Chinese International Students.” Lunch will be provided, and no registration is needed.
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, an assistant professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, presents a new book about “Y tu mamá tambien,” published as part of a series on Queer Film Classics. Attendees will view a screening of the film organized and hosted by the Philadelphia Film Society and learn more about the book. Free with RSVP.
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.
At Penn’s Graduate School of Education, the Penn Center for Learning Analytics is piloting an AI teaching assistant that fields students’ syllabus questions, generates assignment feedback, and eases the stress of instructors’ and TAs’ emailing schedules.
Celebrating five years of excellence at VinUniversity
Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson visited VinUni in Hanoi, Vietnam, to commemorate the university’s fifth anniversary and Penn’s seventh year of allyship. He delivered a lecture about how excellent universities advance society.
The University’s nexus for technology transfer supports researchers in their innovative efforts, from CAR T to mRNA advancements that have dramatically reshaped the world.
Penn receives $5M to create the first-of-its-kind professorship in philanthropy
The Wieler Family Professorship in the field of philanthropy will hold a primary appointment in Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice and a secondary appointment in the Wharton School.
Mystery force behind the universe’s accelerating expansion may not be so constant after all
Bhuvnesh Jain of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on the cosmological implications of new data regarding dark energy and the expansion of the universe.
Two Philly high schools were chosen for an $8M project to get more kids college and career ready
Two Philadelphia public schools have been chosen to participate in the Academy at Penn, an $8 million project to help hundreds of underserved students access college and career opportunities, with remarks from Dean Katharine O. Strunk of the Graduate School of Education.
If bird flu jumps to humans, immunity from seasonal flu may offer some protection
Penn researchers have shown that people born roughly before 1965 had higher levels of antibodies—proteins that bind to parts of the virus—which cross-react to the current strain of bird flu.
Speaking about cognitive shuffling, a mental exercise to bring on sleep, Jorge I. Mora of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “We need to study this more to be able to fully say, yes, this should be a consistent tool.”
