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‘Building bridges’: Iraqi Global Guide offers tours, personal insight
Yaroub Al-Obaidi, an Iraqi artist and scholar who settled in Philadelphia in 2016, gives Penn Museum visitors an insider’s view of the Middle East Galleries and creates connections with U.S. Iraq War veterans.
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In a warming world, chief heat officers help adapt, prepare, and protect
With frank text and bold illustrations, graphic novel tackles puberty head on
Finding a forgotten architect, Philadelphia’s Minerva Parker Nichols
Update of a local tree field guide offers ‘antidote for plant blindness’
A potential strategy to improve T cell therapy in solid tumors
In-person Models of Excellence ceremony returns in April
Tony Award-winning actress and singer/songwriter Idina Menzel to speak at Penn’s 267th Commencement
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Penn earns at-large bid to WNIT
The women’s basketball team will take on Richmond in the first round of the WNIT on Thursday in Virginia.
2022 PIP/PEP winners: Where are they now?
Nearly a year after the winners of the President’s Innovation Prize (PIP) and President’s Engagement Prize (PEP) began their projects, a look at how the work of these eight intrepid alumni has evolved.
Dingle named Ivy League Player of the Year
The third-year guard put up the second-highest scoring average in the conference in the last 25 years.
The immune system does battle in the intestines to keep bacteria in check
New research from Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine demonstrates that Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, a relative of the bacterial pathogen that causes plague, triggers the body’s immune system to form lesions in the intestines called granulomas.
Penn’s eight 2023 Thouron Scholars named
Seven fourth-year students and one May graduate have each received a 2023 Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
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‘Do you have a food sensitivity?’ and other questions answered
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Shriya Karam awarded Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship
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DVCEE Leadership Institutes encourage students to speak up
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Penn Athletics receives big boost to men’s and women’s lacrosse programs
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President Magill around campus
Liz Magill began her duties at the University on July 1. Here’s what she’s been up to most recently.
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What statistics are most likely to promote positive actions during a pandemic?
A new study from PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín and research associate Haesung Annie Jung finds that some COVID statistics are more effective than others at encouraging people to change their behavior.
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Flu vaccination rate holds but misinformation about flu and COVID persists
The latest Annenberg Science Knowledge survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center highlights continuing uncertainty about consequential information about the flu, COVID-19, and vaccination.