A day of service to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s tenets, character, and sacrifice Students listen to Charles “Chaz” Howard speak at the 2023 Day of Service kickoff breakfast in the Hall of Flags. nocred A day of service to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s tenets, character, and sacrifice The 29th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and the Symposium on Social Change honors King’s legacy through educational and volunteer opportunities, along with events.
New AI tool brings precision pathology for cancer into quicker, sharper focus Image: iStock/iLexx New AI tool brings precision pathology for cancer into quicker, sharper focus Researchers at Penn Medicine have developed an artificial intelligence tool to quickly analyze gene activities in medical images and provide single-cell insight into diseases in tissues and tissue microenvironments.
Art Matters: A monumental steel sculpture on Shoemaker Green The sculpture “Atmosphere and Environment XII” was reassembled cube by cube as part of the move to Penn’s campus from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2019. nocred Art Matters Art Matters: A monumental steel sculpture on Shoemaker Green “Atmosphere and Environment XII” by Louise Nevelson, an 18-foot-high geometric steel structure, was moved to Penn’s campus from the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2019.
Through first-year seminar, a glimpse of Black queer traditions Associate professor of English Dag Woubshet leads students of the course “Black Queer Traditions” in Fisher-Bennett Hall. nocred Through first-year seminar, a glimpse of Black queer traditions Dagmawi Woubshet, an associate professor of English, led a new first-year seminar in the fall that explores Black queer media and its intersection with history and politics.
How Penn Medicine is changing the world with mRNA nocred How Penn Medicine is changing the world with mRNA Vaccines are just the beginning of the potential for messenger RNA, the Nobel Prize-winning technology.
Fernando Lara looks beyond famed architects to uncover deeper themes throughout history nocred Fernando Lara looks beyond famed architects to uncover deeper themes throughout history The architectural historian in Penn’s Weitzman School discusses the need for the dissemination of design ideas beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Dark Energy Survey uncovers clues to universe’s complexity An image of NGC 1365 collected by the Dark Energy Survey. Also known as the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, NGC 1365 is an example of a spiral galaxy and is located about 56 million light-years away. (Image: DECam, DES Collaboration) nocred Dark Energy Survey uncovers clues to universe’s complexity The decade-long effort reveals findings consistent with standard cosmological models, but open to more complex interpretations.
New treatment reverses Alzheimer’s disease signs Image: iStock/Nomadsoul1 New treatment reverses Alzheimer’s disease signs According to a preclinical study from Penn Medicine researchers, a molecular compound mimics the effect of natural chaperones that are depleted in the aging brain.
Microrobots: An emerging biomedical trend Image: Courtesy of iStock / K_E_N Q&A Microrobots: An emerging biomedical trend In a Q&A with Penn Today, Hyun (Michel) Koo of the School of Dental Medicine and Edward Steager of the School of Engineering and Applied Science discuss the emerging trend of microrobots in healthcare.
‘The Tame and the Wild’ A new book by historian Marcy Norton—“The Tame and the Wild, People and Animals After 1492”—looks at the colonization of the Americas through the lens of European and Native American beliefs about animal life. (Image: Courtesy of Harvard University Press) Q&A ‘The Tame and the Wild’ Historian Marcy Norton’s new book looks at the history of human-animal relationships in Europe and Native America and how they became entangled after 1492.