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Streamlining the health care supply chain

William Danon and Luka Yancopoulos, winners of the 2022 President’s Innovation Prize, will offer a software solution to make the health care supply chain more efficient.

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From Buddhist temples to Penn Libraries

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Exploring racism’s health impact in a VA renal clinic

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Penn COVID-19 Response

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A message to the Penn community about masking and COVID testing

Dan Treglia on the caregivers lost to COVID

Reimagining the corner store to promote food justice

Talking admissions with Whitney Soule

Illuminating lung cancer earlier, at the cellular level

‘Oft-delayed but never deterred,’ Class of 2020 and 2021 grads celebrate

Wharton expert explains the crashing crypto market

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Weitzman Plaza dedicated as ‘one of Penn’s great gathering places’

The plaza, named for Stuart Weitzman, Wharton Class of 1963, was extensively renovated in 2021 and celebrated on May 13 with a ceremony.

Amanda Mott ・ May 19, 2022

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Genomic differences selected through evolution may offer clues as to why COVID-19 outcomes vary widely

A team from the University of Pennsylvania analyzed genomic data from global populations, including thousands of ethnically diverse Africans, to identify genetic variants that may be associated with clinical COVID-19 outcomes.

Katherine Unger Baillie ・ May 19, 2022

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Quakers ante up for postseason play

The baseball team and the men’s lacrosse team will be in action this weekend in the Ivy League Championship Series and NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Championship, respectively.

Greg Johnson ・ May 19, 2022

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Elucidating the developmental origin of life-sustaining adrenal glands

Research led by the School of Veterinary Medicine reveals that adrenal development proceeds differently in humans than it does in mice.

Katherine Unger Baillie ・ May 19, 2022

Three students in dress whites stare into the distance with a busy bridge on their left and the American flag in the background.

NROTC graduates transition from students to leaders

For three May graduates, Commencement also marks the transition from personal development to military leadership.

Kristina García ・ May 18, 2022

Celebrating the newest President’s Engagement, Innovation, and Sustainability Prize winners

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

A multidisciplinary approach to considering the Earth’s changing systems

Helen Octavia Dickens exhibit installation

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

The changing face of portraiture at Penn

Campus & Community

A celebration of the ‘resilient creativity’ of the Class of 2022

Penn’s 266th Commencement showcased graduates who Interim President Wendell Pritchett said demonstrated an ‘advanced ability to roll with the challenges.’

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

A multidisciplinary approach to considering the Earth’s changing systems

Bringing expertise from each of their disciplines, the School of Arts & Sciences’ Kathleen Morrison and Joseph Francisco and the Environmental Innovations Initiative’s Melissa Brown Goodall infused chemistry, anthropology, policy, and more into an introductory course on climate and the environment.

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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Islands on the climate front line

Perry World House’s Global Shifts Colloquium looked at how islands can protect their people, build resilient communities, and safeguard their environment in the climate crisis.

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Turning Latin America green

Santiago Cunial, a doctoral candidate in political science, investigates issues surrounding green energy in Chile and Argentina.

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Science & Technology

Four solutions to mitigate climate change, from the IPCC

The latest assessment offers both a harsh reality check and a path forward. Experts William Braham, Peter Psarras, and Michael Mann offer their thoughts.

Health Sciences

Genomic differences selected through evolution may offer clues as to why COVID-19 outcomes vary widely

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Health Sciences

COVID mortality age patterns changed significantly during pandemic

Between March 2020 and October 2021, death rates from the virus decreased for those 80 and older and increased for those 25 to 54, results that held across racial and ethnic groups.

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Health Sciences

DNA analysis finds links between severe COVID and other conditions

Through analyzing human DNA samples in a large biobank, Penn Medicine researchers found associations between genetic variants with severe COVID and conditions involving blood clots and respiratory issues.

Health Sciences

COVID in a cat

A new report led by Elizabeth Lennon of the School of Veterinary Medicine and colleagues has confirmed what is believed to be the first published account of the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a house cat.

Education, Business, & Law

Wharton expert explains the crashing crypto market

What does the cryptocurrency crash mean for investors? Wharton expert, Sarah Hammer talks with Penn Today about the digital asset.

Education, Business, & Law

A beginner’s guide to cryptocurrency

What is cryptocurrency? Sarah Hammer from The Wharton School breaks down the basics of the digital currency.

Science & Technology

Taking a closer look at cryptocurrency

Experts across the University share their thoughts on how cryptocurrency has globally transformed businesses, research, and the environment.

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Education, Business, & Law

What’s all the buzz about Bitcoin?

What’s all the buzz about Bitcoin? Mauro Guillén, a professor of international management at the Wharton School answers the questions surrounding the sudden interest.

Lucas Monroe sits in the bleachers at the Palestra.

Campus & Community

Defining leadership

Lucas Monroe, a political science major from Abington, Pennsylvania, combines athletics and introspection to take on a leadership role in social justice work on campus and beyond.

Education, Business, & Law

America as it actually was

“Teaching Independence: Bridging the Communications Gap,” took an in-depth look at the challenges of teaching the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, and the nation’s founding in the current political climate.

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Campus & Community

An interfaith commemoration of MLK

The annual event on March 23 was part of the Penn MLK Commemorative Symposium on Social Change.

Group of protesters in masks in the streets, one carries a large sign that reads BLACK LIVES MATTER.

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

The Black Lives Matter movement, but not COVID, encouraged voters toward Biden

As swing voters registered more awareness about discrimination against Black Americans, they became more likely to vote for the party they felt would best rectify that—Democrats.

The New York Times

We can’t even agree on what is tearing us apart

Yphtach Lelkes of the Annenberg School for Communication is quoted on the evidence that public opinion is now collapsing onto one dimension.

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Marketplace (NPR)

Evusheld offers vulnerable Americans protection from COVID. But getting it has been complicated

Aimee Payne of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the decision to get a COVID vaccine amongst patients with rare autoimmune diseases.

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Reuters

Fact Check-Monkeypox is not the same as AIDS or ‘VAIDS’ caused by the COVID-19 vaccine

Stephen Gluckman& of the Perelman School of Medicine says there is no evidence of immunodeficiency being related to COVID-19 vaccines.

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TechiLive

Bystander CPR more likely in states requiring teen training

Victoria Vetter of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how state laws mandating CPR training in high schools were associated with a higher likelihood of bystander CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

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Marketplace (NPR)

Reading the Federal Reserve minutes can feel like hours, but Fed watchers still pore over them

Peter Conti-Brown of the Wharton School says that Federal Reserve meeting minutes are deliberately written in code.

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Daily Beast

Watch this noodle-shaped robot autonomously escape a maze

Researchers at Penn and North Carolina State University have created a rotini-shaped robot that can tumble through a maze without any help or guidance from a computer or human being.

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The New York Times

After stroke, doctors look at Fetterman’s campaign trail prospects

Rajat Deo of the Perelman School of Medicine agreed with the use of defibrillators in the care of Senate nominee John Fetterman and suspects he has a damaged heart.

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Daily Mail (U.K.)

Jill Biden visits same Children’s Hospital in Costa Rica that John F. Kennedy visited in 1963 as first lady celebrates new cancer partnership

Jill Biden on Sunday followed in the footsteps of John F. Kennedy and visited the National Children’s Hospital of Costa Rica. She was celebrating a partnership between Costa Rica’s public health authority and the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which will help Costa Rican children access a lifesaving cancer treatment.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Finally, the Class of 2020 gets its in-person commencement ceremonies at Penn, Haverford, and Penn State

On Sunday, 3,500 members of the University of Pennsylvania’s undergraduate class of 2020 as well as 2021 master’s and doctoral graduates marched onto Franklin Field to whooping cheers from family and friends in the crowd of 12,000.

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WebMD

Global warming could mean less sleep for billions

Indira Gurubhagavatula of the Perelman School of Medicine praises a study that shows individuals could be subjected to at least two weeks of short sleep each year due to high temperatures driven by global warming.

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