Kate Ahn

The initiative aims to enhance graduate student engagement through a biannual conference that brings students together to share ideas, advance their training, and showcase their research through seminars and workshops.

The findings marked a shift in how red blood cells have been researched, as past literature has overlooked their role in targeting blood clots.

Hosted by Natives at Penn and the Greenfield Intercultural Center, the Penn Powwow is a tradition that aims to celebrate diversity on campus and honor the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape tribe. 

Researchers from Penn’s School of Dental Medicine discovered that training the innate immune system may lead to increased bone loss in inflammatory conditions such as periodontitis and arthritis. 

The City of Philadelphia will honor Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander — the first Black woman in the United States to receive a Ph.D. in economics and the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School — with a statue at Thomas Paine Plaza outside the Philadelphia Municipal Services Building.

The Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts opened a recreation of a colonial coffeehouse last week in recognition of the Semiquincentennial: the 250th anniversary of America’s birth. 

The film festival aims to highlight short films under five minutes in length featuring stories of climate resilience and an “Earth-positive” future.

Black squirrels — frequently found all over Penn’s grounds — were likely introduced over 200 years ago and are now part of an unofficial campus culture. 

This year, Penn was one of four Ivy League schools to continue its test-optional policy, despite the remaining four reinstating their standardized testing requirements. 

Miura, a political science professor and law faculty member at Sophia University and visiting scholar at Harvard University's Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, spoke on the challenges facing gender equality in Japanese politics today.