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Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026
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BFS Presents Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell — the British-Canadian journalist and author of The New York Times bestsellers “The Tipping Point,” “Blink” and “Outliers” — raised a controversy and a trail of questions Thursday night after his lecture at the Harrison Auditorium in the Penn Museum.


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Wrestling vs. Hofstra

Even with the recent news of wrestling’s demise from the 2020 Olympic Games, the Penn wrestling team is pushing on bravely. The No. 23 Quakers travel to New York to face Columbia this weekend.





Veolia

As part of its 20-year steam supply agreement with Penn, Veolia Energy agreed to commission two new, lower-emission rapid response boilers to provide the campus’ steam, which could move the city as much as 10 percent towards its energy efficiency goal.



	Engineering professor Vijay Kumar has earned recognition for his research into autonomous flying robots called ‘quadrotors.’

Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science professor Vijay Kumar received a lot of press attention and academic accolades this past year for his work on tiny autonomous robots — called quadrotors for the four rotating rotors that allow them to maneuver through the air.