A vendor shows off their products to visitors at the Diversity Supplier Expo.

A vibrant sixth annual Supplier Diversity Forum and Expo

Penn hosted this year’s Supplier Diversity Forum and Expo at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, uniting Penn buyers and local and diverse suppliers and emphasizing community.

Supporters of Turkish President Erdogan wave Turkish flags in the street at night after his runoff win.

Harun Küçük on the Turkish elections

People clean up a house damaged by a hurricane.

Climate change’s cost includes losses of learning and earnings due to natural disasters

How banks could protect themselves from runs

Who, What, Why: Kelly Garcia-Ramos, advocate for students with speech impediments

The state of extended reality research

Data shows disparities among alcohol use disorder diagnosis among veterans

Anna Cowenhoven named head of University Communications at Penn

War and welfare in colonial Algeria

In MATTERS course, art materials are traced to their source

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Before and after fluorescence imaging of fungal accumilations being removed by microrobots.

Nanorobotic system presents new options for targeting fungal infections

Researchers from Penn Dental and Penn Engineering have developed a nanorobot system that precisely and rapidly targets fungal infections in the mouth.

Nathi Magubane ・May 26, 2023

A person is seen walking in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street.

Three things to know about the debt ceiling fight

Economist Harold L. Cole of the School of Arts & Sciences offers an overview of what could happen should the U.S. default on debt payments because no spending deal is reached.

Kristen de Groot ・May 25, 2023

A young woman lies sideways on a bed, gazing at her phone

What TikTok reveals about Gen Z dating

In an honors thesis for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, 2023 grad Talia Fiester examines “Neoliberal Love and the Pathology of Gen Z’s Singledom.”

Kristina García ・May 25, 2023

Josh Faia and Bruce Morrell standing next to garden railway surrounded by trees and foliage.

Morris Arboretum & Gardens’ Garden Railway celebrates 25 years of inspiring wonder

The Garden Railway at Morris Arboretum & Gardens will reopen May 26 with 300 feet of additional track and a new ‘Public Gardens’ theme.

Brandon Baker ・May 24, 2023

Wearing their blue Penn jerseys, two baseball players jump in the air and prepare to slap arms in celebration.

Penn pulverizes Princeton, advances to NCAA tourney

The baseball team trounced the Tigers 16-3 on Monday to earn their first berth in the NCAA Tournament in 28 years.

Greg Johnson ・May 23, 2023

Scholarship beyond the written word

Three students at Hamilton Elementary with shovels prepare a hole for a tree that a volunteer will plant.

Campus & Community

Green solutions are transforming a West Philadelphia grade school

Sports

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Campus & Community

Celebrating community at Penn’s 267th Commencement

Thousands of students and their biggest supporters—those who President Liz Magill described as ‘force multipliers’—flooded campus for a sunny ceremony for the ages.

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Campus & Community

Student climate champions gather to share stories and inspiration

More than 150 Philadelphia high schoolers came together at WHYY in a climate storytelling event organized by the public media company and the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities.

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Campus & Community

Celebrating Earth Week at Penn

Organized by Penn Sustainability, Earth Week runs April 17-23 and will include dozens of events centered on the themes of environmental justice, climate, and nature-based solutions.

From left: Lon Henderson, U.S. Forest Service; Weitzman students Ari Vamos, Vyusti Agarwalla, Jiajing Dai, Caz Gagne, and Oliver Atwood.

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Designing for, and with, forests

Nicholas Pevzner, assistant professor of landscape architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, is leading a landscape architecture studio that focuses on forest management in the American West.

Science & Technology

Climate scientist Michael Mann makes a home at Penn

Known for his “hockey stick” graph that hammered home the dramatic rise of the warming climate, the climate scientist is now making his mark on Penn’s campus, both through his science and his work on communicating the urgent need for action on the climate crisis.

A pregnant person receives a COVID vaccine.

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Those of childbearing age more doubtful about safety of flu, COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy

With a vaccine on the horizon for RSV that is designed to protect pregnant people and their fetuses, new survey research finds that women of childbearing age are more doubtful than other adults about the safety of existing, recommended vaccines.

Outline of human body with the head surrounded by clouds, implying brain fog.

Health Sciences

You think you have long COVID: What now?

Penn Medicine’s long COVID clinic assists patients with an array of symptoms including persistent fatigue, difficulty breathing, insomnia, and “brain fog.”

People queueing in line during the pandemic.

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Guaranteed income improved people’s health during the pandemic

Associate professor Amy Castro of the School of Social Policy & Practice shares the final results from the Stockton pilot program, which show connections between financial security and better health.

A childcare worker at a table with three young children.

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

How have women in the workforce fared, three years into the pandemic?

Despite hopeful signs that this demographic is returning to work, certain female-dominated sectors, like the care economy, still haven’t recovered, signaling there’s more to learn about COVID-19’s full effect.

A neurologist examines an encephalogram of a patient’s brain.

Health Sciences

Novel tools for the treatment and diagnosis of epilepsy

Penn neurologist Brian Litt’s work on implantable devices for recording and altering brain activity has led to new ways to treat and diagnose epilepsy.

Health Sciences

Gregory Bowman appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor

The pioneer of biophysics and data science has joint appointments in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Department of Bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Health Sciences

More cancers may be treated with drugs than previously believed

Using a Penn-designed neural network called PocketMiner, a Penn Medicine research team has identified hidden protein pockets that can provide new opportunities for cancer drugs to bind to.

Health Sciences

A potential strategy to improve T cell therapy in solid tumors

A new Penn Medicine preclinical study finds that a new simultaneous “knockout” of two inflammatory regulators boosted T cell expansion to attach solid tumors.

Archaeological site filled with stacked, dusty, aged bricks and surrounded by rocks..

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Reconsidering world heritage for the modern era

Through recent research, archaeologist and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Lynn Meskell has continued to highlight how World Heritage Sites have become flashpoints for conflict and out of touch with local communities.

A view of the Sudanese capital of Khartoum shows brown buildings and dark grey smoke billowing against a blue sky.

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Crisis in Sudan: A Q&A with Ali Ali-Dinar

The Sudanese scholar and senior lecturer in the Department of Africana Studies offers some background that led to the recent violence and potential paths to peace.

Former Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. Nabil Fahmy stands at a podium speaking into a microphone in an auditorium at the Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics on Penn's campus.

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Nuclear issues in the Middle East and North Africa

Nabil Fahmy, former foreign minister of Egypt and Egyptian ambassador to the United States, spoke on campus about the current state of nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament in that region.

President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Care Act surrounded by lawmakers and a young child standing by the table.

Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

‘Stable Condition’

In a new book, Penn political scientist Daniel J. Hopkins offers a detailed study of Americans’ opinions about the Affordable Care Act and examines to what extent political elites can reshape public opinion through their words or policies.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Penn baseball readies for the bright lights and ‘big crowds’ of NCAA regional play

The No. 4 seed in the Auburn Regional, Penn will match up first against the top-seeded hosts on Friday night, the same program it faced the last time it was in the tournament, 28 years prior.

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The Washington Post

ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says that the current automation threat is to the highest-earning, most creative jobs that require the most education background.

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UPenn baseball team makes NCAA regional appearance for first time since 1995

Penn’s baseball team will face Auburn in Alabama tomorrow night, representing their first trip to the NCAA tournament since 1995.

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USA Today

How does the brain process memory during sleep? New study offers clues

Anna Schapiro of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the dominant theory of how the brain consolidates memories during sleep had been assumed but hadn’t been tested before.

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Irish News

Time of reckoning for Sinn Féin

In a letter to the editor, Brendan O’Leary of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the successful implementation of a referendum in favor of Irish reunification requires careful thought about how to reduce the numbers of those who would find losing “almost impossible to accept.”

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The New York Times

What your mustache says about you

Penn Carey Law student Ari Goldstein says that the range of reactions people have to his mustache reflects the broad role of mustaches in society.

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Associated Press

How and when to remove children from their homes? A federal lawsuit raises thorny questions

PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts explains why the child welfare system can be particularly risky for Black and Indigenous families.

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The Washington Post

We ordered over $100 of delivery. Here’s how much the restaurants, drivers and apps made

Lindsey Cameron of the Wharton School says that, when it comes to information on fees, the opacity of food delivery apps is a deliberate feature, not a bug.

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The Week

Why are so many seniors homeless in America?

Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice says that people older than 60 are the fastest rising group within the homeless population.

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The New York Times

The most common eating disorder in the U.S. is also the least understood

Kelly Allison of the Perelman School of Medicine says that many people with binge eating disorder eat in secret and grapple with guilt.

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Guaranteed income improved people’s health during the pandemic

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More cancers may be treated with drugs than previously believed

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ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners

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