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  • Biochemist Kathy Fange Liu is driven to push RNA research boundaries

    The assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics and principal investigator of the Kathy Liu Lab in the Perelman School of Medicine specifically studies enzymes that modify RNA in the body’s cells that can impact human disease.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Why the housing market is not in recession

    Housing sales are falling in response to rising interest rates, but the real estate market is not in a recession, according to Wharton’s Fernando Ferreira. He explains why the persistent lack of supply will continue to put pressure on homebuyers.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • New Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative brings immersive technologies to academic research

    The lab, launched by Katerina Girginova and Annenberg digital design specialist Kyle Cassidy, supports critical and interdisciplinary exploration and theory building around virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication

  • Wharton’s Forté Scholarship recipients

    Archana Patel, Sruthi Mylavarapu, Cynthia Obiozor, and Shilpi Mittal received scholarships from the Forté Foundation for their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.

    FULL STORY AT Wharton Stories

  • Penn Dental to join innovative collaboration at PHMC Public Health Campus on Cedar

    Plans are underway to open a PHMC Dental facility at PHMC Public Health Campus on Cedar, with dental care provided by a mix of dental students and AEGD residents at a state- of-the-art, 11-chair facility in 2023.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine

  • Cash payments linked to improved HIV prevention and outcomes

    New research from LDI Associate Fellow Aaron Richterman and Senior Fellow Harsha Thirumurthy highlights an approach to achieving a range of HIV public health goals: Just give people cash.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • Karen Goldberg awarded Nichols Medal

    The Karen I. Goldberg, Vagelos Professor of Energy Research, has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 William H. Nichols Medal of the American Chemistry Society for her pioneering work in organometallic reaction mechanisms.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences

  • CHOP and Penn Medicine launch Kidney Innovation Center

    Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Penn Medicine are jointly launching the Penn-CHOP Kidney Innovation Center to enhance collaboration between the institutions and transform patient care through a cooperative approach to precision medicine.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Penn LDI SUMR 2022 Program marked by heightened sense of racial justice and academic purpose

    The 23rd annual Summer Undergraduate Minority Research (SUMR) Program co-sponsored by Penn LDI and the Wharton School’s Health Care Management Department concludes with the largest class, the most funding, and record numbers of faculty mentors and lecturers.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • Intervention video from the Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab wins Stanford University’s Strengthening Democracy Challenge

    The video reduced anti-democratic attitudes, support for The video by Samantha Moore-Berg, director of the Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab, reduced anti-democratic attitudes, support for partisan violence, and partisan animosity among 32,000 Americans.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication