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Mimicking Natural Connections Could Improve Rotator Cuff Repair

Researchers have developed a “scaffold” that mimics natural tissue and could lead to more durable rotator cuff repairs, including for large injuries and cases involving bone and tissue degeneration ...
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Penn Arts & Sciences Receives $3 Million Gift to Establish the Georgia and Jesse Feldman Professorship of Jewish Studies

Georgia A. Feldman, C’00, and Jesse Feldman have made a commitment of $3 million to establish the Georgia and Jesse Feldman Professorship of Jewish Studies in the School of Arts & Sciences. Simcha ...
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Book ISBNs and Price Information Available from Penn Bookstore

The Higher Education Opportunity Act requires universities to make available to students, for each course, the International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) and price information for ...
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AI Helps Detect Media Bias, Informing Voters and News Consumers

News media shapes how people understand the world around them. The stories we encounter can influence what we believe is important, how we understand political and social issues, which people and ...
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Ronny Drapkin: President and CEO of the Wistar Institute

The Wistar Institute’s Board of Trustees has appointed Ronny Drapkin, a physician-scientist and leading ovarian cancer researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, to be ...
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Penn Cost Calculator Launched to Increase Financial Aid Program Transparency for Prospective Undergraduate Students

On October 14, Penn launched the Penn Cost Calculator, a purpose-built, highly customized and proprietary tool to make Penn’s robust undergraduate financial aid program more transparent and more ...
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Alisha Ramirez and Marta Guron: 2026 Green Purchasing Award

The recipients of the University of Pennsylvania’s 2026 Green Purchasing Award, presented by Penn Procurement Services and Penn Sustainability, were announced on September 21. Now in its tenth year, ...
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Publication Schedule & Deadlines

No. 34 May 4, 2027—submission deadline: April 26, 2027 ...
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Penn Engineering and Penn Carey Law Launch Certificate of Study in AI and Law

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The Penn Libraries is pleased to announce that Sean Quimby, associate university librarian and director of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, has been appointed ...
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Yumi Matsumoto, an assistant professor in the educational linguistics division, is an expert on English as a lingua franca—a shared language used among speakers with different linguistic and cultural ...
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FDR at Franklin Field: A Rendezvous with Destiny

There was a crowd of 100,000 gathered in Franklin Field as more waited outside on June 27, 1936, to hear what has become one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s most enduring speeches. As the president’s ...