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Fourth-year Chin Chin Choi and alumni Aaron Guo, Moksh Jawa, Jiaqi Liu, and Edward Zhi En Tan have been named to the eighth class of Schwarzman Scholars and will enroll at Tsinghua University in Beijing in August.The program’s core…

Late last month protests erupted in several cities around China against the nation’s “zero COVID” policy and lockdowns. They were triggered by a deadly apartment fire that was difficult to quell due to lockdown measures. Soon, the…

Two iconic Philadelphia institutions are teaming up to provide public access to an extraordinary historical collection. The University of Pennsylvania Libraries has acquired the archives of The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Academy of…

Three Penn faculty members have been named National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellows. Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine and Dean Vijay Kumar of the School of Engineering and Applied Science received the…

Jing (Jane) Li of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Li Shen of the Perelman School of Medicine have been named Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the…

Asmall molecule inhibitor that attacks the difficult to target, cancer-causing gene mutation KRAS, found in nearly 30% of all human tumors, successfully shrunk tumors or stopped cancer growth in preclinical models of pancreatic cancer,…

University of Pennsylvania fourth-years Sarah Kane and Amy Krimm and 2021 graduate Carson Eckhard have been named 2023 Marshall Scholars. Established by the British government, the Marshall Scholarship funds as many as three years of…

The idea of the “flipped classroom”—in which lectures and presentations are delivered outside of class time and in-person learning features active student engagement—is becoming a familiar concept to many in education, but professor of…

The University of Pennsylvania has announced that it will raise the minimum Ph.D. stipend to $38,000, beginning in the coming 2023-24 academic year, the largest one-time increase in Penn’s history.The information was shared with current…

After a severe bout with a respiratory illness like flu, COVID, or RSV some patients’ lungs never fully recover. In these cases, scientists have seen cells normally found in the upper airway growing deep in the lungs, where gas-exchange…