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Penn today announced that close to 100 Native American high school students from 19 states representing 33 Tribal Nations, Alaska Native Villages and Hawaiian islands from across North America will be on campus June 22-28 to take part in…

Thanks to a major grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Expeditions in Computing program, Penn Engineering will partner with the University of Texas at Austin and other institutions on research that will use artificial…

Voter suppression and the struggle for voting rights has a long and fraught history in the United States, an issue that has persisted in recent years. A distinguished panel of experts—all with strong ties to Penn—convened on March 23 to…

Research published in the journal Physical Review Letters conducted by an international team of scientists including Joshua Klein, the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences, has resulted in a…

Eight faculty from four University of Pennsylvania schools have been elected 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. They are among more than 500 researchers honored for their “scientifically and socially…

At a time when issues of social justice—racial equity, health disparities, income and education inequality—are top of mind, Gianni Morsell, a 2022 graduate of the School of Social Policy & Practice, is helping to build a more…

Our brains are charged with the task of directing most of the processes needed for our bodies to function. As such, they consume roughly 20% of our body’s metabolic energy, even while we’re resting.This need for unremitting access to fuel…

As a group, human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Some forms of the virus are capable of causing cancer in both men and women.While cervical cancer in women has historically…

When Emily Largent worked as an ICU nurse at UCLA, she didn’t shy away from the difficult cases. It wasn’t necessarily the medical procedures themselves that were challenging; caring for patients after organ transplants or managing a…

It’s never too late or early to start saving for retirement. The University offers eligible employees retirement savings programs that help plan for and build long-term financial security.Changes to the Penn Basic Plan are coming in…