In Penn's reimagined Community Youth Filmmaking class, students worked with local partners to create short films about Philadelphia.
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May 27, 2026
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In Penn’s newly reimagined Community Youth Filmmaking class, graduate and undergraduate students worked with local partners to create short films that touch on education, archiving, and grassroots organizing in Germantown, Northeast Philadelphia, and West Philadelphia.
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SmartDJ, an AI-powered system developed by Penn engineers, lets users reshape complex audio environments and design spatially rich soundscapes for VR, gaming, and immersive media. “Users can describe the outcome they want in natural language, and the system figures out how to make it happen,” says Mingmin Zhao (not pictured).
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Behavioral changes—such as more nighttime meowing, becoming clingier, or being more reserved—may signal emerging cognitive decline in senior cats. “These are not ‘just old age.’ They’re red flags to share with your vet,” says veterinarian Carlos Siracusa (pictured). “No behavior change is too small to report.”
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The curriculum for Wharton’s Artificial Intelligence for Business MBA major and undergraduate concentration combines technical fluency, ethical reasoning, and real-world application.
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Rebecca Boswell of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “There are no screening processes that are recommended for people that are prescribing GLP-1s for individuals with eating-disorder histories.”
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MAY 29-30
Noted by The New York Times as “one of the great companies of the world,” the Martha Graham Dance Company celebrates a century of Graham’s groundbreaking and uniquely American dance style with three distinct performances in honor of America’s 250th anniversary. These shows are part of America 250 at Penn programming and the Penn Live Arts series “America Unfinished.” Students can receive a discount with Penn ID.
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