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How can people boost resilience? Karen Reivich shares some key insights
Karen Reivich smiling and hand gesturing while teaching a resilience workshop.

Karen Reivich, director of training programs at Penn’s Positive Psychology Center, facilitating a resilience workshop.

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How can people boost resilience? Karen Reivich shares some key insights

In a four-part series offered by Penn HR this spring, Karen Reivich of Penn’s Positive Psychology Center will guide staff, faculty, and postdocs toward building resilience.

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Cancer care for the mind and spirit
Rebecca Boswell speaking with three people.

Patients are 10 times more likely to engage in mental health services when the therapy is integrated in a medical clinic, says Rebecca Boswell, center, with therapists at the Psychosocial Oncology Clinic.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News)

Cancer care for the mind and spirit

A psychosocial oncology program is a part of a revolution in cancer care at Penn Medicine to address a wider range of cancer patients’ experiences, and includes specially-trained psychotherapists at no cost.

From Penn Medicine News

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Awards and accolades for Penn faculty and graduate students
Statue of Ben Franklin on a bench in the snow.

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Awards and accolades for Penn faculty and graduate students

A roundup of the latest awards for various faculty members and graduate students at Annenberg, Wharton, Penn Nursing, SP2, and Penn Engineering.

Penn Today Staff

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Exploring Black America: A historian’s unique path of inquiry
Marcia Chatelain

Marcia Chatelain’s next book, coming out this fall, is a narrative history of the women who played roles in the 1963 March on Washington.

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Exploring Black America: A historian’s unique path of inquiry

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marcia Chatelain, a Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies, takes a unique approach to history, from the impact of fast food to the leadership of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Hoop dreams with Ethan Roberts
Ethan Roberts holding a basketball at the entrance to the Palestra.

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Hoop dreams with Ethan Roberts

The fourth-year guard discusses how basketball is a microcosm for life, transferring to Penn, playing for Coach Fran McCaffery, and the pride he has in donning the Red & Blue.

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Anthropomorphizing AI

Anthropomorphizing AI

Artificial intelligence doesn’t make decisions like a human, but according to research from Arts & Sciences economics professor Kevin He, people seem to think it does.

From Omnia

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AI and the dream: Technology in the service of humanity

AI and the dream: Technology in the service of humanity

An event titled “AI and the Dream: Technology in Service of Humanity,” part of Penn’s annual MLK Symposium, highlighted many of the ethical questions raised by AI systems. “Dr. King warned us that our technological means can outpace our moral ends,” said Valerie Dorsey-Allen, director of the AARC. “As AI rapidly reshapes education, work, health care and civic life, we’re being asked some very real questions: Who is the technology serving? Who is being left out? And who gets to decide?”

How ancient attraction shaped the human genome
Human X chromosomes, karyotype, structure, division in genetic biological study

Why do modern humans carry small amounts of Neanderthal DNA almost everywhere in their genome except on the X chromosome? A new study by Alexander Platt and Daniel Harris in the lab of geneticist Sarah Tishkoff suggests the answer lies in ancient attraction. (Pictured) An illustration of a normal karyotype, the full complement of chromosomes arranged in homologous pairs.

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How ancient attraction shaped the human genome

Research led by geneticist Sarah Tishkoff’s finds that prehistoric mating preferences is a likely explanation for why modern humans have small amounts of Neanderthal genetic elements on their X chromosomes, challenging the idea that human evolution was driven solely by survival of the fittest.

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