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  • Researchers show potential to predict whether pain will be acute or persistent

    How an individual will experience a painful incident comes down to the complex, variable connections formed between several different parts of the brain, which had previously been unpredictable. A team of Penn researchers has shown a way to make such predictions about brain connections from the pattern of neural connections that begin to take shape soon after the first onset of pain. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • How venture capitalists can support Black entrepreneurs

    The debut of Beyond Business, a series of discussions streamed live on Wharton’s LinkedIn page, covers the topic of investing capital in a time of systemic racism, and how venture capitalists can create new patterns for investing and analysis.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Proton therapy for lung cancer may help reduce risk of heart diseases

    In new study from Penn Medicine, a retrospective trial of more than 200 patients found mini-strokes were significantly less common among patients who underwent proton therapy versus conventional photon-based radiation therapy. Proton therapy patients also experienced fewer heart attacks.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • The polling problem: Yphtach Lelkes on why political polls can be misleading

    Annenberg School for Communication Assistant Professor Yphtach Lelkes breaks down why polling numbers show a strong likelihood that one candidate will win, despite the actual percentages of voters being quite close, and why this leads to political hobbyism and can even swing the results of an election.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • Center for Guaranteed Income Research is launched

    Mayors for a Guaranteed Income and the School of Social Policy & Practice has established the Center for Guaranteed Income Research, to consolidate the key learnings from the pilots taking place, address knowledge gaps in the contemporary understanding of guaranteed income’s impact for Americans, and allow the organization to layer data with anecdotal evidence in federal advocacy.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →

  • Penn’s Engineers Without Borders on their work in Guatemala

    Since 2012, Penn’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders has been traveling to Guatemala’s Lake Atitlán to work on projects and collaborate with farmers on sanitation and irrigation projects. 

    FULL STORY AT The Water Center →

  • Where are Black women in monumental art?

    Monuments and who and what they represent have been a subject of intense national discourse. Missing from that conversation is the presence—or lack thereof—of Black women in the making of monuments and as the subject of monuments, says Dixon Li, a doctoral candidate in English.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • Parsing the history and health effects of structural racism

    The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics' latest virtual seminar brought together five top experts on the history and continuing impact of structural racism in health care.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Alums launch the Arifa Hasan Ahmad and Nada Al Shoaibi Presidential Professorship for Arts & Sciences faculty

    The $1.5 million gift, from Hyder Ahmad and Faisal S. Al Shoaibi, endows a Presidential Professorship in Penn Arts & Sciences with a preference for a scholar focused on data science. The professorship is named in honor of their mothers. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Milford Graves exhibit at ICA is a Cross-Campus Pick

    Cross-Campus Picks is a series offers book, music, and film recommendations to accompany exhibits and events taking place across Penn. Its recent recommendation is at the Institute of Contemporary Art, which reopened its doors to the public for an exhibition on the work of Milford Graves, presented by Ars Nova Workshop.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →