Helen Fetaw sets her sights on treating underserved populations

The recent College of Arts and Sciences grad will combine passion for studying medicine and social justice to advocate for patients in the U.S. and around the world.

French lit professor discusses her new book, a stranger-than-fiction tale of finance and fashion

Different diseases elicit distinct sets of exhausted T cells

An innovative approach to better energy storage

Scholar of Britain discusses the royal family and upcoming nuptials

Stem cell signaling drives mammary gland development and, possibly, breast cancer

Leadership training for a new focus on healthcare

Worth a try: anti-bias education in the workplace

Parents not OK with movie gun violence for younger teens

A chemotherapy companion to save thousands of lives

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2018 Penn Commencement

Speaker Andrea Mitchell, an alumna and award-winning journalist, encouraged graduates to be curious, open-minded, and engaged.

Jacquie Posey ・ May 14, 2018

Keating selected as Inside Lacrosse All-American

The senior graduates as the highest-scoring long stick in the country with 41 points on 31 career goals and 10 assists.

Penn Today Staff ・ May 14, 2018

How Penn left its red-and-blue legacy on the lives of these alumni

Many alumni have a story to tell that is unique to the Penn community. The impact of being part of the University lasts a lifetime, and several of the graduates, both recent and not, share their stories.

Brandon Baker ・ May 10, 2018

Penn Professor André Dombrowski teaches an art history curatorial class.

The World on View

The world is on view at the Arthur Ross Gallery, interpreted by 13 students in André Dombrowski’s history of art curatorial class. They chose more than 100 objects from 14 institutions to represent World’s Fairs from 1851 to 1915.

Louisa Shepard ・ May 10, 2018

With second FDA approval, CAR-T’s transformative power multiplies

With second FDA approval, the transformative power of CAR-T is multiplied

After last year’s approval to treat pediatric lymphoma, the latest indication will expand the number of patients that can be treated with personalized cell therapy almost tenfold.

Katherine Unger Baillie ・ May 9, 2018

Hey Day 2018

Health Sciences

With second FDA approval, the transformative power of CAR-T is multiplied

Sports

A Relays recap

Campus & Community

Class of 2018 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prize winners announced

Nine seniors received the annual awards for their post-graduate projects, designed to make a meaningful global impact.

Health Sciences

With second FDA approval, the transformative power of CAR-T is multiplied

After last year’s approval to treat pediatric lymphoma, the latest indication will expand the number of patients that can be treated with personalized cell therapy almost tenfold.

Science & Technology

How working dogs are sniffing out cancer

A Center for Public Health Initiatives seminar showcased the collaborative research at Penn and the Monell Chemical Senses Center that is working to detect early stage ovarian cancer.

Health Sciences

Study uncovers therapeutic targets for aggressive triple-negative breast cancers

As part of a breast-cancer diagnosis, doctors analyze the tumor to determine which therapies might best attack the malignancy. But for patients whose cancer is triple-negative — that is, lacking receptors for estrogen, progesterone and Her2 — the options for treatment dwindle. Triple-negative cancers, or TNBC, also tend to be more aggressive than other cancer subtypes.

Health Sciences

Healthy T cells have a fighting chance for cell therapy

Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who have a healthy amount of T cells prior to treatment (“early memory” T cells) responded positively to CAR T therapy, highlighting a powerful biomarker for successful therapies for that specific type of leukemia.

Health Sciences

Being hungry shuts off perception of chronic pain

Finding food is a necessary survival skill, but so is avoiding pain. Research led by J. Nicholas Betley and postdoctoral researcher Amber Alhadeff showed that being hungry activates a neural pathway that inhibits the sensing and responding to chronic pain. The findings offer up new targets for treating pain.

A new study from Penn researchers Joseph Kable and Caryn Lerman linked the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex to risk tolerance.

Health Sciences

Risk tolerance linked to amygdala and prefrontal cortex brain regions

New research links willingness to take risks to brain structure and function, specifically the amygdala, the prefrontal cortex, and connections between the two.

Health Sciences

Researchers prove that timed brain stimulation improves memory

Performance can be enhanced by as much as 15 percent, according to a study by Penn neuroscientists published in Nature Communications. It is the first time such a connection has been made.

Health Sciences

Researchers look inside the brain itself to treat depression

Neuroscientists at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are looking at treatment for major depressive disorder by stimulating neural pathways of the brain itself.

Science & Technology

Building futures through LEGOs

In the FIRST LEGO League tournament, middle school teams mentored by Penn Engineering students worked to design and build robots related to the theme of water.

Campus & Community

Encouraging Philadelphia high school students to ‘Tech It Out’

Tech It Out Philly introduces high school students to different topics in computer science, such as web development, robotics, circuitry, and hardware.

Sung is developing design software to enable people without an engineering background to create custom origami robots that can move on the ground. The tool, called Interactive Robogami, is based on a database of robot parts which users can combine together like a “virtual Lego set.”

Science & Technology

These small robots are inspired by origami

Through origami-inspired engineering, one researcher hopes to not only create rapidly fabricable robots, but also build intuitive design software that enables others who may not be trained in engineering to create their own personalized robots.

Intelligent, Adaptive and Resilient Robot

Science & Technology

These robot teams will be intelligent, adaptive, and resilient

The United States Army Research Laboratory awarded the School of Engineering and Applied Science a five-year, $27 million grant to develop new methods of creating autonomous, intelligent, and resilient teams of robots.

Science & Technology

Earthquakes at the nanoscale

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.

Campus & Community

Tackling blindness with nanotechnology

To tackle blindness caused by open angle glaucoma, Brandon Kao, Rui Jing Jiang, and Adarsh Battu came up with Visiplate, a nanoscale ocular implant that shunts away excess fluid.

Science & Technology

Creating atomic water filters

A vast majority of the earth’s water is salty, making it unfit for people to drink. Researchers are working on a technology that could potentially offer a new method of desalinating water that would be both fast and scalable.

Illustration showing optics switching the ‘contrast’ of electronic transistors

Science & Technology

Penn engineering research gives optical switches the ‘contrast’ of electronic transistors

Current computer systems represent bits of information — the 1’s and 0’s of binary code — with electricity. Circuit elements, such as transistors, operate on these electric signals, producing outputs that are dependent on their inputs.

Forbes

Reaching the ‘Unreachable’ Audience with Podcast Advertising

The Wharton School has released a report describing “unreachables,” a growing audience of millennials and Gen Xers who can’t be easily tracked for marketing purposes.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Why Medicaid Work Requirements Could Help Persuade More States to Expand Coverage

Mark Pauly of the Wharton School argued for compromise over Medicaid redesign. Although work requirements are controversial, according to Pauly their implementation may persuade lawmakers to expand health coverage to the bulk of non-disabled poor working adults.

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The New York Times

California Today: Medical Experts Blast U.S.C.’s Silence Over Gynecologist Scandal

Weighing in on allegations of a gynecologist's misconduct at the USC student health center, the Perelman School’s Jonathan Moreno called the state medical board decision not to report Dr. Tyndall “sort of toothless.”

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Marketplace (NPR)

Audio: What's the Downside of Making Friends at Work?

The Wharton School’s Nancy Rothbard co-authored a study about the effects of workplace friendships on productivity and work culture.

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CBS Philadelphia

Video: New Study Suggests Parents Want PG-15 Rating for Movies

Study author Dan Romer of the Annenberg School for Communications discussed the sharp rise of violence in PG-13 movies. Romer stated that Hollywood may be exploiting the MPAA rating system by justifying gun violence in the plot and by omitting the gory consequences.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Penn Appétit! In Their Spare Time, These Students Publish a Food Magazine and Cookbook

Penn-based publication, Penn Appétit will celebrate its 10th anniversary by releasing a cookbook. Entitled Whisk, the collection of recipes will feature a wide range of cuisines and techniques designed for the home cook.

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The New York Times

Does Hollywood Need a PG-15 Rating?

Research supported by the Annenberg Public Policy Center explored parental reactions to gun violence in PG-13 movies. Lead study author Daniel Romer said that “the film industry is taking inappropriate advantage of the PG-13 system” by adding justification and omitting the “blood and suffering” of gun violence in order to meet MPAA requirements.

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NBC News

Video: Watch as Andrea Mitchell Gives the Commencement Address at UPenn

NBC Foreign affairs correspondent and Penn alumna Andrea Mitchell addressed the class of 2018 on Monday, sharing her experiences and offering the new graduates guidance for life after college.

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WHYY (Philadelphia)

Audio: Poor People’s Campaign Seeks to Revive MLK’s Vision

Roberta Iversen of the School of Social Policy & Practice compared today’s income equality statistics to those of the 1950s and ‘60s. The gap has increased exponentially, with many contemporary CEOs making 350 percent of an average worker’s salary.

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The New York Times

An Evangelical Journalist Finds His Calling at the White House

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center described the relationship between the current administration and David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network as “base-tending” and “agenda control.”

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Class of 2018 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prize winners announced

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With second FDA approval, the transformative power of CAR-T is multiplied

How working dogs are sniffing out cancer

Study uncovers therapeutic targets for aggressive triple-negative breast cancers

Healthy T cells have a fighting chance for cell therapy

Being hungry shuts off perception of chronic pain

Risk tolerance linked to amygdala and prefrontal cortex brain regions

Researchers prove that timed brain stimulation improves memory

Researchers look inside the brain itself to treat depression

Building futures through LEGOs

Encouraging Philadelphia high school students to ‘Tech It Out’

These small robots are inspired by origami

These robot teams will be intelligent, adaptive, and resilient

Earthquakes at the nanoscale

Tackling blindness with nanotechnology

Creating atomic water filters

Penn engineering research gives optical switches the ‘contrast’ of electronic transistors

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Reaching the ‘Unreachable’ Audience with Podcast Advertising

Why Medicaid Work Requirements Could Help Persuade More States to Expand Coverage

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Video: New Study Suggests Parents Want PG-15 Rating for Movies

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Does Hollywood Need a PG-15 Rating?

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