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Quakers slay NJIT
Members of the volleyball team high five after a big play.

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Quakers slay NJIT

Boosted by 57 kills, volleyball team beat the Highlanders on Saturday in the Delaware State Tournament.
Who, What, Why: Catherine Sorrentino and a souvenir of historic Germantown
Catherine Sorrentino in front of College Hall

Catherine Sorrentino of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, spent her summer exploring the archives at Historic Germantown as part of the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program.

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Who, What, Why: Catherine Sorrentino and a souvenir of historic Germantown

During a summer internship, history major Catherine Sorrentino encountered a 108-year-old book with insights into Black Philadelphia.

Kristina García

Tracking parental leisure time and ‘intensive mothering’
Tyler, Paula, and Claudia posing at bottom of staircase.

From left: Tyler Trang, Paula Fomby, and Claudia Bellacosa.

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Tracking parental leisure time and ‘intensive mothering’

Paula Fomby, a professor of sociology in the School of Arts & Sciences, worked with a team of PURM students over the summer to analyze time-use data of parents from 1965 to 2019.
A call for less talk and more action on luxury emissions
A private jet taking off.

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A call for less talk and more action on luxury emissions

Shelley Welton, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Law and Energy Policy at Penn Carey Law and the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, argues for a luxury emissions tax that would focus on grossly excessive personal carbon emissions.

From Penn Carey Law

Removing the barrier surrounding solid tumors clears path for T cells
Stroma-targeting CAR T cells (green) in the stroma surrounding a solid tumor.

Stroma-targeting CAR T cells (green) accumulate in the stroma surrounding a tumor in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer.

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Removing the barrier surrounding solid tumors clears path for T cells

Penn researchers uncover a new way to target solid tumors. Using CAR T cells to remove cancer-associated fibroblasts surrounding pancreatic tumors allows T cells to infiltrate and attack the tumor cells.

Liana F. Wait

Penn Medicine’s Carl June to receive 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Carl June in a lab.

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Penn Medicine’s Carl June to receive 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

The Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Perelman School of Medicine is honored for pioneering the development of CAR T cell therapy, which programs patients’ own immune cells to fight their cancer.

Meagan Raeke

Who, What, Why: Literacy advocate Meresa García
Meresa García.

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Who, What, Why: Literacy advocate Meresa García

The Penn Graduate School of Education student, who earned her bachelor’s from the College of Arts and Sciences in the Spring, talks about her work with the Penn Libraries Community Engagement team and her aspirations of becoming a teacher.

Lauren Hertzler

Many don’t know key facts about U.S. Constitution, Annenberg civics study finds
The United States map with the preamble of the Constitution written across it.

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Many don’t know key facts about U.S. Constitution, Annenberg civics study finds

Many Americans do not know what rights are protected under the First Amendment and a substantial number cannot name all three branches of government, according to the 2023 Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

Can the COVID playbook help end malaria?
A Perry World House forum at the University of Pennsylvania discusses how lessons from COVID-19 can impact the fight to end malaria

A Sept. 12 Perry World House event, Can the COVID Playbook Help End Malaria?, looked at the historic fight against this disease, along with new developments in mRNA vaccine technologies and lessons learned from the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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Can the COVID playbook help end malaria?

In a Perry World House conversation, Matthew Laurens, Martina Mchenga, and Drew Weissman discussed how lessons from a global pandemic could help in the fight to eradicate malaria.

Kristina García