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Shujie Yang: Harnessing sound to build the next generation of microrobotic medicine
Shujie Yang

Shujie Yang is at the frontier of single-cell acoustic manipulation, an emerging field that blends physics, mechanobiology, and medicine.

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Shujie Yang: Harnessing sound to build the next generation of microrobotic medicine

Yang’s lab at Penn Engineering uses precisely-controlled ultrasound waves to develop microscale tools that can manipulate cells, viruses, and soft materials without physical contact.

Melissa Pappas

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Learning from the practitioners of statecraft
Members of the Perry World House Geneva cohort standing in front of UN flags.

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Learning from the practitioners of statecraft

A cohort of 18 Perry World House undergraduate student fellows traveled to Geneva to learn from diplomats, technical experts, and activists working to advance global security, economic growth, and well-being.

Blending empathy and analytics
Nature Hu.

Nature Hu is MSSP+DA student at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice.

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Blending empathy and analytics

SP2 Class of 2026 student Nature Hu explains how qualitative insight coupled with strong data analysis can effectively shape policy and resource allocations.

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A kidney for her mom, a marathon for herself
Jen Brady (right) and her mom seated at a kitchen table.

Six months after donating a kidney to her mother through Penn Medicine’s Center for Living Donation, Jen Brady (right) ran her third Boston Marathon.

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A kidney for her mom, a marathon for herself

Working with the team at the Center for Living Donation, Penn Medicine’s benefits director Jen Brady felt confident enough to donate a kidney to her mother and run the Boston Marathon several months post-surgery.

From Penn Medicine News

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Building better delivery vehicles for medicine
A machine in Michael Mitchell’s lab.

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Building better delivery vehicles for medicine

Penn researchers in the Mitchell Lab are modifying lipid nanoparticles, the delivery vehicles for mRNA therapies, to make them more potent, precise, and better tolerated.

Ian Scheffler

2 min. read

Ivy Madness to return to The Palestra in 2027

Ivy Madness to return to The Palestra in 2027

The 2027 Ivy Madness men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will be held at The Palestra in conjunction with the historic venue’s 100th anniversary celebration.

More money makes people happier, but not at work

More money makes people happier, but not at work

In a new study, Wharton senior fellow Matthew Killingsworth finds that people who make more money are indeed happier in their lives—just not while they are at work.

Finding common ground at the ‘Solutions for High Health Care Costs’ panel in DC

Finding common ground at the ‘Solutions for High Health Care Costs’ panel in DC

Former Obama administration adviser Ezekiel Emanuel and Trump policy architect Brian Blase discussed the critical nature of the affordability in the U.S. health care system at the “Health Care Affordability: Evidence and Federal Policy Options” seminar in Washington, D.C. in March.

2026 Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching and Provost’s Teaching Awards

2026 Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching and Provost’s Teaching Awards

The winners of the 2026 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Awards for Distinguished Teaching, the Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence by Non-Standing Faculty, and the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Ph.D. Teaching and Mentoring will be celebrated on April 23.