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Corine Labridy leads an exploration of French Caribbean culture and literature
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Corine Labridy, an assistant professor of French and Francophone studies, uses the literature of the French Caribbean to help students learn larger lessons about identity and culture.

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Corine Labridy leads an exploration of French Caribbean culture and literature

The French and Francophone Studies faculty member took an unconventional route to academia. She places the voices of the islands at the heart of her work.
Getting to the root of root canals
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Getting to the root of root canals

Penn researchers use iron oxide nanozymes to treat infections during root canals with fewer adverse effects than clinical gold standard while also promoting tissue healing.
Sophia Z. Lee: ‘The Reconciliation Roots of Fourth Amendment Privacy’
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Sophia Z. Lee

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Sophia Z. Lee: ‘The Reconciliation Roots of Fourth Amendment Privacy’

The dean of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School explores “privacies of life” and Fourth Amendment rights in the University of Chicago Law Review.

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Four from Penn named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows
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Jason Altschuler (top left) and Anderson Ye Zhang (bottom left) of the Wharton School, Liang Wu (bottom right) of the School of Arts & Sciences, and César de la Fuente (top right) of the Perelman School of Medicine have been named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows. They are among 126 early-career scientists in North America chosen this year to receive the two-year, $75,000 fellowship in recognition of their accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become leaders in their fields.

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Four from Penn named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows

Jason Altschuler, César de la Fuente, Liang Wu, and Anderson Ye Zhang have been honored as early-career researchers and scholars for their accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become leaders in their fields.
Pursuing vaccines to stop celiac disease
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Pursuing vaccines to stop celiac disease

Scientists at Penn’s Institute for RNA Innovation are using messenger RNA to stop the immune response that triggers celiac disease symptoms.

Alex Gardner

Looking to the past to understand the impacts of human land use in South Asia
R. Ramesh adjusts measuring tape at archaeological site.

R. Ramesh, assisting superintending archaeologist at the Archaeological Survey of India, adjusted a measuring tape at an archaeological site in India before he and Penn's Kathleen Morrison took samples for paleoenvironmental analysis from a Neolithic (3000-1200 BCE) deposit. 

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Looking to the past to understand the impacts of human land use in South Asia

An international group of scholars, including archaeologists from the School of Arts & Sciences, synthesized archaeological evidence in South Asia from 12,000 and 6,000 years ago.

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Is Moore’s Law really dead?
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According to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double every two years.

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Is Moore’s Law really dead?

Penn Engineering’s Ben Lee and André DeHon discuss Moore’s Law, the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double every two years with minimal rise in cost, and reflect on the consequences and opportunities of its possible end.

Devorah Fischler

Psychiatric faculty mentorship programs are key to this expert’s journey
Yvette Shaline.

Yvette Sheline is the McLure Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Research in the Perelman School of Medicine.

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Psychiatric faculty mentorship programs are key to this expert’s journey

Psychiatry and behavioral research professor Yvette Sheline has crafted a program to provide mentorship opportunities catered specifically to psychiatry researchers.

Eric Horvath

Quantum communications
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Leveraging principles of quantum mechanics to securely transmit messages has promised a revolution in encryption, keeping sensitive information secure. Now, a collaborative team of researchers including the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Liang Feng and Ph.D. candidate Yichi Zhang have developed a system that enables more stable, robust, high-efficiency, and long-range quantum communication—paving the way for practical, high-dimensional quantum networks.

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Quantum communications

Penn and CUNY researchers collaborated to develop a device that uses quantum principles to relay information securely—an advance that could improve encryption in critical service areas like banking and health care.