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Connecting Black culture, music, and community with the built environment
Cacie Rosario Jackson

Weitzman MFA student Cacie Rosario Jackson.

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Connecting Black culture, music, and community with the built environment

One of eight artists in the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Weitzman School and Arthur Ross Gallery, Cacie Rosario Jackson uses circuitry to study Black performance in the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Louisa Shepard

2 min. read

Three from Penn elected to the American Philosophical Society
Ezekiel Emanuel, Liz Magill, and Sophia Rosenfeld

Penn faculty members Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Elizabeth Magill, and Sophia Rosenfeld have been elected to the American Philosophical Society.

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Three from Penn elected to the American Philosophical Society

Ezekiel Emanuel, Liz Magill, and Sophia Rosenfeld have been recognized for extraordinary achievements in their fields.

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Nhlanhla Mavuso: Innovating computer chips to run more efficiently
Nhlanhla Mavuso looking at an electronic board in the Moore Building.

Nhlanhla Mavuso of Fluid Silicon at work in the Moore Building.

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Nhlanhla Mavuso: Innovating computer chips to run more efficiently

Fluid Silicon, a platform from President’s Sustainability Prize winner Nhlanhla Mavuso, allows computer chips to continuously monitor their health and self-tune as their characteristics change. The technology has the potential to reduce energy usage in data centers and improve reliability in mission-critical applications.

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Cloak wins $75,000 Perlman Grand Prize in Venture Lab Startup Challenge

Cloak wins $75,000 Perlman Grand Prize in Venture Lab Startup Challenge

Cloak, the winner of Venture Lab’s 10th annual Startup Challenge, is founded by Rishi Ambavanekar Tyler Sacharow, and works with publishers, ranging from news to novels to screenplays, to protect content against AI scraping.

A science policy framework for the climate determinants of health

A science policy framework for the climate determinants of health

This spring, Perry World House and Penn Climate hosted a convening on the margins of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Spring Meetings to discuss how to further bridge the science-policy gap to inform responses to climate change impacts on health.

How population changes are impacting primary education worldwide
Schoolchildren lining up to go into a classroom.

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How population changes are impacting primary education worldwide

Research from Penn sociologist Emily Hannum and colleagues reveals regional trends in whether school-age populations are increasing, plateauing, or decreasing—and shows how different countries are responding.

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Founding-era research and the social context of public institutions
Tingfeng Yang.

Tingfeng Yan is a Friends of the MCEAS Fellow at the McNeil Center.

(Image: Courtesy of The McNeil Center Center for Early American Studies)

Founding-era research and the social context of public institutions

At the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Friends of the MCEAS Fellow Tingfeng Yan is uncovering the political ideas and practices that informed the creation of U.S. constitutionalism.

From The McNeil Center for Early American Studies

2 min. read

Immune linked high risk diabetic kidney disease found
Internal rendering of two kidneys.

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Immune linked high risk diabetic kidney disease found

A Penn Medicine study maps kidney tissue in single cell resolution and identifies a form of disease linked to faster progression to kidney failure.

Matt Toal

2 min. read

Penn Reading Days in photos
A student studying in book stacks during Reading Days.

Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center

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  • Photo Essay

    • Penn Reading Days in photos

    From the sixth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library with its view of College Hall, to tucked-away areas in bloom outdoors, students spent Reading Days putting the finishing touches on their studies, notes review, and final projects before Final Exam period begins.

    Penn Today Staff

    1 min. read

    Empowering unhoused patients through comprehensive eye care
    From left to right: Justin Wang, Janine Haros, and Eric Lee in a clinical room at the Scheie Eye Institute, holding documents and smiling together

    Justin Wang (left), Janine Haros (center), and Eric Lee (right) in a clinical room at the Scheie Eye Institute, holding documents and smiling together.

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    Empowering unhoused patients through comprehensive eye care

    Penn fourth-years Eric Lee, Janine Haros, and Justin Wang will use a President’s Engagement Prize to elevate vision health in unhoused individuals across Philadelphia through free eye screenings, tailored care coordination, and interactive patient education.

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