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Fostering cats and dogs in Philadelphia
Candace Adams holds cat.

Candace Adams with Black Pearl, one of her foster cats.

(Image: Courtesy of Candace Adams)

Fostering cats and dogs in Philadelphia

Outside of her day job at Penn’s Institutional Review Board, Candace Adams works with different organizations in Philadelphia to give temporary shelter and care to cats and dogs.

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Women’s squash wins Pennsylvania State Championship

Women’s squash wins Pennsylvania State Championship

Penn’s women's squash team finished the opening weekend of the season with two wins against Chatham and Drexel, winning the Pennsylvania State Championship.

Penn fourth-year Florence Onyiuke named a 2026 Rhodes Scholar
Florence Onyiuke.

Fourth-year Florence Onyiuke is a 2026 Rhodes Scholar.

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Penn fourth-year Florence Onyiuke named a 2026 Rhodes Scholar

Onyiuke has been awarded a 2026 Rhodes Scholarship, which funds tuition and a living stipend for graduate study at the University of Oxford in England. She is among 32 American Rhodes Scholars and an expected 100 worldwide.

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Government cash transfer programs linked to major health gains for women and children

Government cash transfer programs linked to major health gains for women and children

A Penn study finds that more women receive health care early in their pregnancies, more babies are born in health facilities, and more births are attended by trained health workers when governments give money through cash transfer programs.

Eric Horvath

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Four from Penn receive Kaufman Foundation grants

Four from Penn receive Kaufman Foundation grants

Penn researchers will receive two of four grants awarded this year by the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation in support of interdisciplinary collaboration aimed at developing novel approaches to fundamental scientific questions.

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Machine learning and the social sciences
Students work on a pop quiz on their laptops.

Students work on a pop quiz in Daniel Gillion’s class.

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Machine learning and the social sciences

Daniel Gillion’s course teaches students without a coding background how to apply models to a wide range of problems across political science, economics, and sociology.

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Penn Startup Showcase 2025 recap

Penn Startup Showcase 2025 recap

On Nov. 6, nearly 200 people gathered at the Pennovation Center for the inaugural Penn Startup Showcase, featuring 24 startups from 13 Penn partners, who showcased their projects with interactive tables and poster sessions.

What can mainstream journalism learn from prison journalism?

What can mainstream journalism learn from prison journalism?

In their study of the prison publication News Inside, Annenberg School for Communication associate professor Sarah J. Jackson and doctoral candidate Liz Hallgren find lessons for mainstream news.