Exploring ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ Dr. Paul Cobb, center, looks on as students and library staff examine rare versions of “One Thousand and One Nights” in the Lea Library.nocred News Exploring ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ A seminar from Middle Eastern medievalist Paul Cobb gets students talking and thinking about the “disorienting” storytelling in “One Thousand and One Nights.”
Why students leave community college Penn GSE doctoral student Estefanie Aguilar Padilla conducting fieldwork at a community college. (Image: Courtesy of Penn GSE) News Why students leave community college At Penn’s Graduate School for Education, doctoral student Estefanie Aguilar Padilla’s work with associate professor Rachel Baker reveals why students walk away—and how colleges can help them stay.
Dorothy Roberts’ memoir on interracial families in America Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Africana Studies, Law, and Sociology & Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights.nocred Dorothy Roberts’ memoir on interracial families in America Roberts’ new memoir, “The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family” is an exploration of race, identity, and family in America. 2 min. read
Rewriting the rules of lung repair Associate professor of biomedical sciences Andy Vaughan.nocred News Rewriting the rules of lung repair Penn Vet’s Andrew Vaughan works to uncover why some lungs rebound and others have lasting damage, and how to change that.
Raindrop-formed ‘sandballs’ that erode hillsides tenfold High-speed laboratory images capture two distinct “sandball” shapes formed when raindrops strike dry, sloped sand and roll downhill. (Top) Peanut-shaped sandballs, where grains coat the surface of a liquid core. (Bottom) Donut-shaped sandballs, which densify into rigid, wheel-like structures with a hollow center, enabling far more efficient sediment transport than splash erosion alone.(Image: Daisuke Noto) Raindrop-formed ‘sandballs’ that erode hillsides tenfold Penn geophysicists and colleagues have uncovered Earth-sculpting processes that result from the formation of snowball-like aggregates they call “sandballs.” Their findings provide fundamental insights into erosion and will broaden scientific understandings of landscape change, soil loss, and agriculture. 3 min. read
Exploring the Declaration through ink and type nocred Exploring the Declaration through ink and type A typesetting workshop at Penn’s Common Press invited participants to reinterpret lines from the Declaration of Independence as part of the Typography of Independence project and Penn’s America 250 programming. 3 min. read
An innovative AI tool to improve health care delivery in rural India Fourth-year neuroscience major Prithvi Parthasarathy is dedicated to innovating health care delivery.nocred News An innovative AI tool to improve health care delivery in rural India Prithvi Parthasarathy, a fourth-year neuroscience major, designed an AI triage tool to improve hospital efficiency and patient care.
Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality Image: lisanna881 via Getty Images Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality Penn Medicine researchers find that earplugs work better in protecting sleep from traffic noise, challenging the widespread use of ambient sound machines and apps marketed as sleep aids. 2 min. read
Powering AI from space, at scale Powering AI from space, at scale A new design for solar-powered data centers reduces weight, power consumption, and overall complexity, making large-scale deployment more feasible. 2 min. read
Understanding Japan’s snap elections Image: Buddhika Weerasinghe / Stringer via Getty Images Understanding Japan’s snap elections Perry World House Distinguished Visiting Fellow Mami Mizutori discusses the upcoming elections and their implications for Japanese policy and politics. 2 min. read