Quakers slay NJIT Image: Penn Athletics 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 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, spent her summer exploring the archives at Historic Germantown as part of the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program. nocred 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.
Tracking parental leisure time and ‘intensive mothering’ From left: Tyler Trang, Paula Fomby, and Claudia Bellacosa. nocred 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 Image: Courtesy of Penn Carey Law Journal 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.
Removing the barrier surrounding solid tumors clears path for T cells Stroma-targeting CAR T cells (green) accumulate in the stroma surrounding a tumor in a mouse model of pancreatic cancer. (Image: Zebin Xiao) 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.
Penn Medicine’s Carl June to receive 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine 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.
Who, What, Why: Literacy advocate Meresa García nocred Who, What, Why 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.
Many don’t know key facts about U.S. Constitution, Annenberg civics study finds Image: iStock/Zorica Jovanov 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.
Quakers on quest for first gridiron title in seven years (Images: Penn Athletics) Quakers on quest for first gridiron title in seven years The football team kicks off its 147th season on Saturday, Sept. 16, versus Colgate in New York.
Can the COVID playbook help 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. (Image: Gabby Szczepanek) 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.