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At COP27, Penn showcased its diverse climate expertise on the world stage

More than 30 representatives from the University traveled to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, for two weeks of negotiations at this year’s United Nations climate change conference.

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Hong Kong activist Nathan Law continues the fight

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Dingle dazzles, collects Ivy and Big 5 Player of the Week awards

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At PCI, new discoveries for societal benefit

Gridiron septet awarded First-Team All-Ivy honors

Stable, faster computer memory storage

Clinical research nurses make research happen

Who, What, Why: Sociologist Wendy Roth on genetic ancestry tests and race perception

The pandemic’s impact on individual generosity

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A pile of zines read things like, "uneven skin...," "lose weight fast," and "I'm not going to change my mind."

‘My body belongs to me???’: Students question media messaging in an Annenberg course

Students in Sarah Banet-Weiser’s Annenberg course on Gender and the Media make zines responding to messaging and consumer products.

Kristina García ・November 23, 2022

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A growing focus on equitable oral care for people with disabilities

Through global outreach, enhanced student training, continuing education for practitioners, and the busy Care Center for Persons with Disabilities, the School of Dental Medicine is working to break down barriers to care.

Katherine Unger Baillie ・November 22, 2022

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Home health care—a crucial edge for the future of medicine

Home care has long been a part of health care, but it was the COVID-19 pandemic that led Penn Medicine to rethink who needed to be in the hospital.

Jen A. Miller ・November 21, 2022

Jewish history scholar talks antisemitism in today’s world

Historian Beth S. Wenger discusses the history of modern antisemitism, its effect on the Jewish people, antisemitism on the right and left, Kanye West, Kyrie Irving, criticism of Israel, and the history of Jewish people in America.

Greg Johnson ・November 21, 2022

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The LGBT Center’s new Clothing Closet

A new partnership between Wellness at Penn and the LGBT Center offers a sustainable way for students, faculty, staff, and community members to recycle outfits and shop for new ones.

Kristina García ・November 21, 2022

Penn’s ninth president

The inauguration of Liz Magill included an academic procession, ceremony, academic symposium, and picnic and concert.

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Health Sciences

Penn Global turns 10

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Education, Business, & Law

Higher education’s role in democracy

Health Sciences

Meeting a ‘generational challenge’: Feeding the world and doing it sustainably

Campus & Community

Penn plans for Tomorrow, Together

President Liz Magill launches University-wide collaborative effort to inform strategic next steps.

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Science & Technology

Physics of disaster: How mudslides move

Researchers led by Douglas Jerolmack and Paulo Arratia used samples from the deadly 2018 Montecito mudslides to understand the complex forces at work in these disasters.

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

New Penn Global program fosters ethical research around the world

The first student cohort of the Penn Global Research Institute piloted the program this summer in the Galápagos.

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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

A modern history of ancient trees, through the lens of climate change

Historian Jared Farmer discusses his new book, “Elderflora,” looking at why humans have no trouble looking at the ancient past but can’t seem to envision the deep future, and what trees can teach us.

Health Sciences

Meeting a ‘generational challenge’: Feeding the world and doing it sustainably

With the launch of the Center for Stewardship Agriculture and Food Security, the School of Veterinary Medicine is working “to make animal agriculture part of a solution to a more resilient, sustainable, and equitable future.”

Education, Business, & Law

Do vaccine lotteries work?

Wharton’s Katy Milkman shares the lessons learned from last year’s Philly Vax Sweepstakes, a Penn-funded project designed to evaluate ways of increasing COVID-19 vaccinations in the city.

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Health Sciences

Chewing to curb COVID

Penn Medicine will conduct a new clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a chewing gum designed by School of Dental Medicine researchers to trap SARS-CoV-2 in the saliva.

A gloved hand holding a small vial of Sars-CoV2 mRNA vaccine.

Health Sciences

Behind the scenes in the lab and the future of mRNA research

Developing new vaccines and novel mRNA delivery methods, coupled with the satisfaction of mentoring and selfless dedication to medicine, inspire the work of scientists at the Weissman Lab.

Health Sciences

Severe COVID-19 increases risk of life-threatening blood clots

A new Penn study finds the clotting condition, venous thromboembolism, was more common in those hospitalized with COVID-19 compared to those hospitalized with influenza.

Health Sciences

Promising efforts to mitigate the opioid crisis

Margaret Lowenstein, an LDI senior fellow and assistant professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine discusses the increase in opioid and drug overdoses since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Sciences

Parental nicotine use and addiction risk for children

In research done using rats, Penn Nursing’s Heath Schmidt and colleagues found that males that engaged in voluntary nicotine use had offspring more likely to do so, too. Some offspring also developed impaired memory and anxiety-like behavior.

Health Sciences

Elizabeth Heller’s lab uncovers how drug addiction can create lasting changes in genes

Leading a neuroepigenetics lab at her alma mater, Heller and the work of her 10-person lab is focused on molecular brain mechanisms, aiming to uncover chronic changes that can happen and keep happening in the brain long after exposure to addictive substances ends.

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Health Sciences

Overcoming barriers to treatment for opioid use disorder

New research shows that emergency departments can be a gateway to medications for opioid use disorder.

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Journalist and activist Maria Ressa on ‘facts, truth, trust’

In the annual Annenberg Lecture, the Nobel Peace Prize winner discussed being the target of online attacks and what it will take to ensure that truth prevails.

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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Five election takeaways

Stephanie Perry, executive director of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies and manager for exit polls at NBC News, shares her team’s top five exit-poll analyses to help explain what happened.

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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Brazil’s presidential election

Three experts share their thoughts on Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva’s defeat of right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, and what it means for Latin America’s largest democracy.

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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Election Day 2022

In what is sure to be an historic election, Penn Today looks back at the stories it published in the months and days leading to the midterms.

The New York Times

One step closer to a universal flu vaccine?

Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues are developing a vaccine that could be used against the entire family of flu viruses, acting as a shield against potential pandemic threats.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

New Pa. standardized test scores show students haven’t rebounded since the pandemic

Jonathan Supovitz of the Graduate School of Education explains why he isn’t surprised by Pennsylvania students’ continuing low scores on standardized tests.

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The New York Times

Have the anticapitalists reached Harvard Business School?

Witold Henisz of the Wharton School says that Wharton’s shift towards progressive courses like Kevin Werbach’s “Responsibility in Business” is a matter of economics, not ideology.

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BBC News

Bird flu: What is it and what’s behind the outbreak?

Louise Moncla of the School of Veterinary Medicine says that the latest bird flu outbreak has refused to die out, spreading from Europe to North America and affecting species like seals and foxes.

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CBS Philadelphia

UPenn has promising early results of new flu vaccine

Scientists at the Perelman School of Medicine are testing a flu vaccine that can adapt to new viral strains using the same mRNA technology as the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Penn victorious in inaugural Cathedral Classic with 86-73 win over Delaware

Penn won its third game in as many days in the inaugural Cathedral Classic at the Palestra after defeating Delaware on Sunday.

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WHYY (Philadelphia)

With PennDOT studying transit options for Roosevelt Boulevard, a subway is back on the table

In an Op-Ed, doctoral candidate Jay Arzu of the Weitzman School of Design explains why plans for the Roosevelt Boulevard subway in Northeast Philadelphia are back on the table.

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CBS News

Dogs may hold key to treating cancer in humans

A study by Nicola Mason of the School of Veterinary Medicine and colleagues found that an experimental immunotherapy treatment using genetically modified listeria could extend the life expectancy of dogs with cancer.

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Wales Online

Universal vaccine to combat flu could be rolled out in the next couple of years

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine have developed a universal flu vaccine that could be ready for use in just a few winters.

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BBC News

Universal flu vaccine could counter future pandemic

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine have found a flu vaccine that could protect against any future pandemic strains, with a quote from Scott Hensley.

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