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Penn GSE announces expansion of ‘Pioneering AI in School Systems’ Program to school districts in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey

Penn GSE announces expansion of ‘Pioneering AI in School Systems’ Program to school districts in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey

Several regional schools have been selected for the next phase of the “Pioneering AI in School Systems” program, the professional learning initiative that guides K–12 systems through integrating AI into teaching, learning, and leadership. 

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Who, What, Why: Alicia Meyer on the wonders of the Kislak Center
Alicia Meyer talks to students in Technology and Society course.

In February 2025, Alicia Meyer showed students in Elly Truitt’s Technology & Society course a rare 19th-century book of hours woven from silk on a Jacquard loom, an Egyptian clay tablet from 400 BCE, an astronomical rotula used to predict the movement of heavenly bodies, posters from Central America made on sugarcane paper, and more.

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  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Alicia Meyer on the wonders of the Kislak Center

    As curator of research services, Meyer wants students from every discipline to visit the Kislak Center and to find new insights from old materials.

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    Historian, scholar, and best-selling author Michael Beschloss to speak at Penn’s 270th Commencement
    Michael Beschloss

    Award-winning presidential historian and scholar Michael Beschloss will be receiving an honorary doctor of letters degree at Penn’s 270th Commencement.

    (Image: Stephen Voss)

    Historian, scholar, and best-selling author Michael Beschloss to speak at Penn’s 270th Commencement

    At the Commencement ceremony on Monday, May 18, Beschloss will receive an honorary degree, along with the other 2026 Penn honorary degree recipients.

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    Novel plant-based approach to a better, cheaper GLP-1 delivery system
    Three researchers in a greenhouse full of lettuce heads.

    Researchers, including Rahul Singh (left), in the Daniell lab’s greenhouse where the production of clinical grade transgenic lettuce occurs.

    (Image: Henry Daniell)

    Novel plant-based approach to a better, cheaper GLP-1 delivery system

    Research led by Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell investigates the use of a lettuce-based, plant-encapsulated delivery platform as a new oral delivery of two GLP-1 drugs previously approved by the FDA in injectable form.

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    Four ways Penn Arts & Sciences is looking to the future
    Mark Trodden.

    “When there are challenges, we have a role to play in solving them. It’s important to be upbeat about the future,” say Mark Trodden, dean of Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences.

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    Four ways Penn Arts & Sciences is looking to the future

    With “SAS Horizons: Pathways for a Changing World,” the School charts a course to navigate challenging waters.

    From Omnia

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    First CRISPR-based platform to pinpoint leukemia drivers
    Rendering of a blood drop with a genetic DNA code inside.

    Image: Alena Butusava via Getty Images

    First CRISPR-based platform to pinpoint leukemia drivers

    The new toolkit, developed by Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, allows researchers to test potential cancer targets directly in patient leukemia cells.

    2 min. read