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Five events to watch for in August
Three people posing by a doorway with a cello and harp

Ezgi Yargici, Valerie V. Gay, and Candace Lark-Masucci, of EVER Ensemble. (Photo: Ryan Collerd)
 

Five events to watch for in August

BlackStar Film Festival, a special 12@12 at the Arthur Ross Gallery, and an alcohol-themed tour through Penn Museum stock up late-summer events in August.
An early start at research
A young woman (right) places electrodes on another young woman's neck (left).

Rising senior Donnisa Edmonds (right) practices placing electrodes on her colleague to measure physiological responses. As part of her research with the EDEN lab, she tracks the physical responses of children as they perform a series of tasks.

An early start at research

As part of the Jumpstart for Juniors program through the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, rising seniors can spend the summer working with faculty on unique and fascinating projects.

Gina Vitale , Katherine Unger Baillie

Q&A with mathematician Tony Pantev
tony pantev standing in front of the David Rittenhouse Laboratory building

Q&A with mathematician Tony Pantev

Penn Today interviewed the math department’s incoming chair to learn about his longtime passion for geometry and his hopes for the future of contemporary math research.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Making insights into ancient marine ecosystems with 3D-printed shells
Scientist looks at a 3D printer in a scientific lab

Erynn Johnson monitors the progress of the lab’s 3D printer in Hayden Hall as it produces a resin-based replica of a snail shell. Her research, which relies on mathematical modeling paired with paleontology, gives insights into how shelled marine creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago evolved to withstand the crunching jaws of predators.

Making insights into ancient marine ecosystems with 3D-printed shells

If you’re a snail hoping to survive an encounter with a hungry fish, it helps to have a strong shell. Paleoecology doctoral student Erynn Johnson is using 3D printing to understand how predator-prey interactions may have played out hundreds of millions of years ago.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Uncovering the roots of discrimination toward immigrants
A group of people waiting on a platform of a train station with sunlit windows and a train on the tracks.

Sambanis and his co-authors ran the experiment more than 1,600 times in train stations in 30 cities in both western and eastern Germany, with more than 7,000 bystanders unwittingly participating.

Uncovering the roots of discrimination toward immigrants

New research from political scientist Nicholas Sambanis finds that religion may matter more than ethnicity in how immigrants are treated, even if they comply with local social norms.

Gwyneth K. Shaw

A deep dive into digital humanities at Penn
A group of people sitting around a rectangular wooden table on the bottom floor of a two-story room in a library adorned with books and busts.

Dot Porter’s Digital Surrogates course, seen here in Lea Library, was one of nine offered during the DReAM Lab. Topics ranged from text analysis to digital humanities in the classroom. (Photo: Sarah Milinski)

A deep dive into digital humanities at Penn

The weeklong DReAM Lab, put on by the Price Lab for Digital Humanities and the Penn Libraries, offered participants the chance to study a range of subjects, from text analysis to augmented reality and Afrofuturism.

Michele W. Berger

When a fix for one vision problem causes another
A person sitting in front of a computer and a machine that tests vision.

The lab of neuroscientist Johannes Burge (above) focuses on how the human visual system processes the images that fall on the back of the eye. This line of work, closely related to a 100-year-old illusion called the Pulfrich effect, could have serious public safety and public health implications.

When a fix for one vision problem causes another

Aging diminishes the ability of the eyes to focus up close. New Penn research reports that monovision, a common prescription lens correction to mitigate this issue, can cause dramatic misperceptions of depth and 3D direction for objects in motion.

Michele W. Berger

‘Smart aviary’ poised to break new ground in behavioral research
outside the smart aviary

‘Smart aviary’ poised to break new ground in behavioral research

A collaboration that has brought together biologists, engineers, and physicists to study the reproductive behavior of birds using machine learning in a custom-built aviary at Pennovation Works.

Katherine Unger Baillie

With summer field course, students get their hands dirty learning about soils
Group of students with professor standing in a soil pit, five feet deep, with vegetation surrounding

Shoulder deep in a soil pit at Penn Vet’s New Bolton Center, Alain Plante (in red cap) and his students investigate the soil profile of this part of Chester Country farmland. (Photo: Hannah Kleckner/Penn Vet)

With summer field course, students get their hands dirty learning about soils

Taught by the School of Arts and Sciences’ Alain Plante, Field Study of Soils gives students skills and familiarity with different soil types, including some on University property.

Katherine Unger Baillie