6.17
A push for emergency texting services across the United States
Today, fewer than half of U.S. counties have this capability. Rising juniors Anthony Scarpone-Lambert and Kirti Shenoy want to change that with their nonprofit Text-911.
Revealing ‘hidden’ phases of matter through the power of light
Hood named First-Team Freshman All-American
Untreated white coat hypertension leads to more death from heart disease
A monumental move for the Penn Museum’s iconic sphinx
Wharton alum is new coach of NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies
Calling all techies: Penn’s your next stop
Predicting post-injury depression and PTSD risk
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One hour, one painting: A Barnes visit reveals clues about how the brain processes visual cues
The exercise is one part of a two-week mindCORE summer workshop aimed at underrepresented undergrads across the country. This year’s program focused on language science and technology, and minds in the world.
A conversation with Vijay Balasubramanian
In the latest episode of Penn Today's ‘Office Hours’ podcast series, a casual chat with Professor of Physics Vijay Balasubramanian.
Making history at LDI: An interview with Rachel Werner
Rachel Werner is the first female and first physician-economist executive director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and a professor of both medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine and health care management at the Wharton School.
You can’t hurt a poem, and other lessons from Charles Bernstein
The award-winning poet writer of libretti, translator, and archivist looks back on his career.
Mathematicians help train the next generation of positive thinkers
A trio of researchers paves the way for future progress in an up-and-coming field that unites geometry and number theory in powerful new ways.
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How gender equality can help build sustainable peace
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Penn engineers to send robots underground in DARPA Subterranean Challenge
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Center for School Study Councils celebrates 75 years of leadership and problem-solving
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3 questions on the future of medical education
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Establishing a safe haven on Spruce
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6.17
Language Exchange
ESL and language learners are invited to lounge on the patio and mingle. A $20 margarita pitcher special will be offered. Speakers are predominantly Spanish, French, English, and German.
6.18
Portal Pop-Up
The Trolley Portal Gardens space is activated with food from Dos Hermanos Tacos, screen-printing from Spiral Q, and frozen treats from Ice Cave. Pop-up events take place at Trolley Portal Gardens every Tuesday in June.
Multimedia
A new way to fly, built up from the nanoscale
Super-thin ‘nanocardboard’ can levitate using only the power of light, opening the door to tiny flying machines with no moving parts.
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Big Ideas
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Black feminism 101
Author and alum Feminista Jones joined Tanji Gilliam of Africana Studies in a discussion of her new book “Reclaiming Our Space,” examining how Twitter and modern liberation movements are all borne from black women’s words, struggle, and history.
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
A sense of place on shifting shores
Roderick Coover, whose work merges cinema, science, and history, is the 2019 Mellon Artist-in-Residence for the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH). His recent film “Toxi-City: A Climate Change Narrative” screened at PPEH’s “Teaching and Learning with Rising Waters” event.
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Pokémon activates a unique part of the brain, offering insights into its structure
In a study of adults who played the game extensively as children, Penn and Stanford researchers discovered that a particular area of the visual cortex lights up when players view characters from the original version.
