Going out of the box to learn to treat exotic creatures

Veterinary students interested in wildlife, zoo, and exotics medicine get creative—and driven—to get the training opportunities they need to advance

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Engaging citizen curators

Making sense of the war on Huawei

Podcast series charts a path for Latin Americans in science

‘The Pitch’ podcast comes to Penn

Thoughts from a medical ethicist on gene editing babies

Solving sports medicine’s trickiest equine mysteries

Pigment and parchment

The economic impact of India’s self-help group movement

Wang picks up Big 5, Ivy League honors

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Cutting and folding toward innovations in medicine, design, and more

Artist-in-residence Mike Tanis and physicist Randall Kamien use kirigami, literally “cut paper,” to better grasp scientific concepts and to solve real-world challenges.

Michele W. Berger ・ December 11, 2018

Forward A.J. Brodeur celebrates with fans on the court after beating Villanova at The Palestra

In a rocking Palestra, Penn vanquishes Villanova

The Quakers’ 78-75 win last night put an end to the Wildcats’ 25-game Big 5 winning streak, and marked the first time Penn has beaten Villanova in 16 years.

Greg Johnson ・ December 11, 2018

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Bridging the gap between Penn students and the West Philly community

In a seminar co-taught by Herman Beavers and Suzana Berger, undergraduates work alongside Sayre High School students and West Philadelphia residents to study the works of August Wilson.

December 11, 2018

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A new, virtual tool in the very real fight against opioid overdoses

Researchers from Penn Nursing and the Annenberg School have found that an immersive Narcan training video is as effective as in-person simulation trainings.

Michele W. Berger ・ December 10, 2018

Holiday giving at Penn

There’s no better time to give on and around campus, and, as tradition, the people of Penn are doing their part.

Lauren Hertzler ・ December 10, 2018

In this photography class, students become curators—at the Barnes

Science & Technology

Marching toward the market

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Campus & Community

New Ronald O. Perelman Center looks to the future while preserving the past

Health Sciences

Cutting-edge science moves to the clinic to help ‘our furry friends’ fight cancer

A year after its launch, the Penn Vet Cancer Center is solidifying the translational science pipeline, connecting basic scientists to the clinic and vice versa, to transform veterinary cancer care.

Science & Technology

Marching toward the market

Rui Jing Jiang and Brandon Kao, winners of the 2018 President’s Innovation Prize, are well on their way to their goal: to gain FDA approval for a device to treat glaucoma.

Science & Technology

New microscopes will allow researchers to see small and think big

Two high-resolution microscopes will allow researchers to study and test materials at the atomic level with unprecedented precision.

Science & Technology

An innovative approach to better energy storage

A Penn/Drexel research team has engineered a way to manipulate nanomaterials to stand up vertically on a scale that has potential for industrial applications.

Science & Technology

Scientists have gotten better at predicting where earthquakes will occur, but they’re still in the dark about when they will strike and how devastating they will be. Penn researchers hope to tackle this by investigating the laws of friction at the smallest possible scale, the nanoscale.

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Cutting and folding toward innovations in medicine, design, and more

Artist-in-residence Mike Tanis and physicist Randall Kamien use kirigami, literally “cut paper,” to better grasp scientific concepts and to solve real-world challenges.

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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Monitoring heritage sites with drones and remote sensors

The Center for Architectural Conservation has been observing adobe ruins for three years as a harbinger for climate change. Any damage that the changing climate will do to exposed structures, it will do it to adobe first.

Science & Technology

This startup wants to revolutionize the future of biofabrication

Before the fall of 2012, Orkan Telhan and Karen Hogan didn’t even know each other. Fast forward six years, and the Penn duo has created budding startup Biorealize, with not one—but two—transformative products.

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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

A walk through history

Jenny Holzer’s landscape installation “125 Years” celebrates its 15th anniversary as an interactive text-based tribute to women’s legacies at Penn.

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Health Sciences

Bigger brains are smarter, but not by much

Using a large dataset and controlling for a variety of factors, including sex, age, height, socioeconomic status, and genetic ancestry, Gideon Nave of the Wharton School and Philipp Koellinger of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam found that people with larger brains rated higher on measures of intelligence, but only accounts for two percent of the variation in smarts.

Health Sciences

The next frontier of precision medicine: Parkinson’s disease

The Molecular Integration in Neurological Diagnosis (MIND) Initiative is working to understand the nature of Parkinson's disease with molecular-level accuracy, so doctors can treat the root cause.

Science & Technology

New center will study the complex genomics within individual cells

Junhyong Kim and James Eberwine are leading a multi-disciplinary team in developing cutting-edge technologies that can assess the genetic material inside individual compartments of single cells. The new Center for Sub-Cellular Genomics aims to revolutionize therapies for diseases such as bipolar disorder, autism, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Science & Technology

Finding patterns in a class of neurological disorders

Research from Penn Engineering and the Perelman School of Medicine has found that the shared pattern is misfolded in Fragile X Syndrome, a member of the class of disorders that also includes ALS and Huntington’s disease

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Health Sciences

FDA approves new targeted drug for leukemia

The drug is the first to target common mutations associated with relapse and short survival in acute myeloid leukemia.

Health Sciences

A link between anti-malaria drugs and cancer treatments, explained

The Abramson Cancer Center study is the first to identify what drugs known as chloroquines are targeting when used for cancer treatment.

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Health Sciences

Abramson Cancer Center receives $10.7 million to study CAR T cells in solid tumors

A new program project grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) will fund research by the Translational Center of Excellence for Lung Cancer Immunology for experimental approaches in lung cancer and mesothelioma.

Health Sciences

Blood test identifies more treatable cancer mutations than biopsies alone

A new study shows patients with treatable mutations identified by liquid biopsies rather than tissue biopsies also largely respond to therapy.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Trump-friendly Newsmax bundled into Comcast’s Xfinity service

The Annenberg School for Communication’s Victor Pickard discussed conservative news channel Newsmax and its recent deal with Comcast. If Comcast is “feeling the heat from the right, it will make sense to appease some of those critics,” said Pickard.

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The Atlantic

The other way the National Enquirer helped elect Trump

The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Kathleen Hall Jamieson discussed the role of tabloids in shaping the 2016 election. “Even as we look at extreme content and say, ‘That’s ridiculous, I dismiss that,’ it changes our sense of where the middle of the distribution of the content is,” she said. “It pushes open our acceptance of extreme content.”

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The Washington Post

How tech workers are fueling a new employee activism movement

The Wharton School’s Peter Cappelli said that tech workers may feel more empowered to critique their employers because their labor is in high demand. “They also feel that some of their identity is tied up with the image of the company where they work, so it really does hurt them when that image gets tarnished,” said Cappelli.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

The media’s holiday suicide myth will never die

Daniel Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center offered commentary on decades of erroneous claims that suicide rates increase during the holiday season. “It looks like this myth will not go away. Ever,” said Romer.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Carson Wentz broke a bone in his back. Here’s what that could mean.

The Perelman School of Medicine’s Harvey Smith weighed in on Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz’s back injury. “A compression fracture is generally not a wear-and-tear type of injury. Usually there is an inciting event, particularly in younger men, assuming there’s no underlying osteoporosis,” said Smith.

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KJZZ Radio (Phoenix, Ariz.)

Health economists still studying ways to bring health care costs down

Mark Pauly of the Wharton School was interviewed on “The Show” about the Affordable Care Act and cost containment. Most cost-containment efforts “don’t even work to slow spending growth at all,” he said.

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USA Today

Penn stuns Villanova for first win over Wildcats since 2002

AJ Brodeur and Antonio Woods each scored 16 points as Penn beat No. 16 Villanova 78-75 on Tuesday night, the Quakers’ first win over the Wildcats since 2002.

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Sports Illustrated

Penn tops No. 17 Villanova for first time since 2002

The Quakers achieved the improbable upset, beating No. 17 Villanova 78-75 Tuesday night.

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ESPN

Penn makes clutch plays down the stretch to upset No. 17 Nova

Villanova tries to make a comeback against Penn, but the Quakers keep responding and come out with the 78-75 victory.

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SBNation

Villanova’s 25-game ‘Big 5’ winning streak ends with 78-75 loss to Penn

Villanova’s 25-game “Big 5” winning streak came to an end Tuesday night thanks to a 78-75 loss at the hands of the Quakers.

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Cutting-edge science moves to the clinic to help ‘our furry friends’ fight cancer

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