• Penn GSE affordability expert offers takeaways on the new FAFSA

    GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education and Penn’s Vice Provost for Faculty Laura Perna, who specializes in college access, affordability, and success, says students should complete the FAFSA as soon as possible.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →

  • Julia Ticona awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study generative AI

    Ticona and Caitlin Petre of Rutgers University will explore how generative artificial intelligence tools affect those working in creative and cultural fields.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry welcomes new cohort of postdoctoral fellows

    Penn’s Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry has selected a new class of fellows for its NIDCR T90/R90 Postdoctoral Training Program, the second group of trainees in the program, which was established in 2021.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

    • 6/28

    Wawa Welcome America Day

    Penn Museum exterior
    As part of Wawa Welcome America, the largest July 4th celebration in the U.S., Penn Museum offers free admission to its galleries. Online reservations are required.

    10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

    Penn Museum, 3260 South St.

    5/1

    Dive-In Movie

    University Life hosts a movie screening by Sheer Pool before it closes for a year. Snacks will be provided.

    7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

    Pottruck Center, Sheer Pool; 3701 Walnut St.

    4/25

    U-Night 2024

    A nighttime, outdoor gathering of a group of students holding small lanterns at U-Night
    U-Night, a second-year tradition, features a lantern-lighting ceremony and other festivities.

    7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

    College Green

    4/22

    New Translations from Kharkiv

    Exterior of Kelly Writers House.
    Katerina Derysheva, a displaced poet from Ukraine who is a poet-in-residence at Penn, will present works that border between phenomenological and linguistic research. This bilingual event presents Derysheva’s work in the original Russian and in new English translations.

    12:00 p.m.

    Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

    5/1

    Caring for the Caregiver

    person pushing another person in a wheelchair on a grassy area in a park during the daytime
    Penn Carey Law and the Penn Employee Assistance Program partner for this workshop in support of caregivers. Caregivers can learn coping mechanisms and other strategies for self-care and wellness.

    12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

    TBD

    Yahoo! Finance

    AI will change work, for better and worse

    Sonny Tambe of the Wharton School says that AI is a useful tool for most people, not an existential threat.

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    CNN

    Here’s what would happen to the US economy if there are no rate cuts this year

    Itay Goldstein of the Wharton School says stock market prices still reflect the expectation that the Federal Reserve will cut rates later this year, even with the recent selloff.

    FULL STORY →