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Brain regions linked to memory and emotion help humans navigate smell
The work points to the existence of a grid-like hexagonal structure in olfactory-related brain areas, similar to mapping configurations previously found to support spatial navigation in animals.
App predicts risk of developing hernia following abdominal surgery
Energy Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania receives $30 million gift
Building literacy and leadership through basketball
Protecting the planet at Penn
What’s new for open enrollment 2019-20
A first-hand look at the complexity of technology for development
A cardiologist’s take on the keto diet
The Latest
Sports talk with M. Grace Calhoun
The director of athletics and recreation discusses the Red & Blue’s recent sports successes, making progress toward the department’s strategic goals, the funding of college athletics, and the 125th running of the Penn Relays.
Strella Biotechnology’s biosensors minimize food waste, one apple at a time
With their 2019 President’s Innovation Prize, Katherine Sizov and Malika Shukurova are looking to disrupt the agricultural sector.
How a year in space affects the brain
Penn Medicine’s Mathias Basner discusses the NASA Twins Study, which analyzed astronaut Scott Kelly’s physical and mental health after he spent 340 days in space, and found that Kelly’s performance on a cognitive test battery dropped when he returned to Earth for six months.
By the numbers: First-ever image of black hole’s event horizon
An overview of how scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration were finally able to see the unseeable, and what it means for the future of astronomy.,
Organs-on-a-chip hurtle toward the final frontier
Microfluidic devices lined with human cells are headed to the International Space Station later this month, part of an effort to understand why astronauts get sick more easily in orbit.
Inside Penn
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Penn Vet’s Ryan Hospital opens its new $2.7 million emergency room
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Media, Inequality, and Change Center hosts launch symposium
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Struggling to escape poor health: 120 years of health disparities reports
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Beijing summit weaves threads of faculty research in China
From Penn Design - From Omnia
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Breadwinning from 1850-1940
Beth Wenger, the Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History, discusses American Jewish men and the anxieties of breadwinning from 1850 to 1940, aligned with her interest in American Jewish history, Holocaust memory, contemporary Jewish culture, American religious history, and gender.
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Public Policy in Practice
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush joins Fels for a discussion. Bush is a non-resident Presidential Professor of Practice for the 2018-19 academic year.
Multimedia
Hands-on learning in the greenhouse
A revamped plant biodiversity lesson invites introductory biology students into the department’s greenhouse for an extensive tour and hands-on lessons with the diverse collection.
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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.
