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A historian’s look at the ‘illusions of progress’
Man in laborer clothes holds shovel, smokes a pipe and looks at his paycheck by a sign reading "USA Work Program WPA"

A Works Progress Administration worker receives his paycheck, 1939.

(Image: Courtesy of the National Archives)

A historian’s look at the ‘illusions of progress’

A new book by historian Brent Cebul looks at the successes and failures of American liberalism, from the New Deal to the 1990s and beyond.

Kristen de Groot

A link between memory and appetite in the brain to explain obesity
rendering of a brain and its different sections highlighted as different colors.

Image: iStock/Floaria Bicher

A link between memory and appetite in the brain to explain obesity

Penn Medicine researchers have found the hippocampal subnetwork, located within the memory center of the brain, is more dysregulated in patients with higher body mass indexes, leading to an inability to control or regulate eating habits.

Kelsey Geesler

What’s That? Banned books chair
The Banned Books chair at Kelly Writers House.

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What’s That? Banned books chair

The inaugural story in a new Penn Today series “What’s that?” features the banned books chair, decoupaged with words and pictures, one of the 50 beloved and mismatched chairs in the Kelly Writers House arts café.
Social ecology and community work in the Galápagos
students studying the galapagos, sitting on waterfront

(On homepage) On a Penn Global Research Institutes outing to Tortuga Bay, students and Penn Global’s Laurie Jensen sit on rocks in a lava field overlooking a hypersaline pool.

(Image: Michael Weisberg)

Social ecology and community work in the Galápagos

Undergraduate and graduate students spent two months on San Cristóbal Island this summer, doing research on antibacterial resistance, vectors of disease, climate change adaptation, and the impact of climate change on mental health.
Paul Farber on the Monument Lab and public art
An installation on the National Mall.

Wendy Red Star, The Soil You See..., 2023, from Beyond Granite on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

(Image: AJ Mitchell/Courtesy of Monument Lab)

Paul Farber on the Monument Lab and public art

The Penn alum and co-founder of Monument Lab offers a behind-the-scenes look at the new public art installation curated by Monument Lab on the National Mall.

From the Weitzman School of Design

An immunotherapy strategy against all blood cancers
Microscopic rendering of a white blood cell amongst red blood cells.

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An immunotherapy strategy against all blood cancers

Researchers at Penn Medicine have demonstrated a new potential treatment using CAR T cell therapy using a CRISPR base-editing to develop a method called “epitope editing.”

From Penn Medicine News

A summer studying the aesthetic brain
People looking at modern art in a museum or gallery setting.

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A summer studying the aesthetic brain

For third-year Olivia Kim, a PURM research experience with Penn neuroscientist Anjan Chatterjee allowed her to combine her love of neuroscience and art in a working lab.
A low-cost, eco-friendly COVID test
cesar de la fuente in his lab

A low-cost, eco-friendly COVID test

César de la Fuente and a team of Penn engineers work on creative ways to create faster and cheaper testing for COVID-19. Their latest innovation incorporates speed and cost-effectiveness with eco-friendly materials.

From Penn Engineering Today