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In the circle with Allison Kuzyk
Allison Kuzyk, wearing her Penn uniform, holds her field hockey stick across her shoulders on steps inside Franklin Field.

Image: Eric Sucar

In the circle with Allison Kuzyk

The fourth-year forward discusses her field hockey career, how Vancouver is like Seattle, her most memorable game, playing for the Junior Canadian Field Hockey Team, her interest in real estate, and her plans for the future.
High levels of disadvantage affect ability amongst younger people
A crumbling house in an impoverished neighborhood.

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High levels of disadvantage affect ability amongst younger people

A new study from Penn LDI finds that structural inequities produce significant disparities in community health, and that addressing concentrated disadvantage could meaningfully improve health outcomes.

From Penn LDI

Two Penn schools partner with Camden County to launch virtual reality Narcan training
Four people, one on a stretcher, outside an ambulance learning how to administer Narcan.

Real-life EMT Barry Hunter, second from left, talks to actors David Blatt, Newton Buchanan, Bi Jean Ngo, and Britt Fauzer. Blatt portrayed a man overdosing, Ngo and Fauzer acted as people administering Narcan, and Newton played an EMT. Kyle Cassidy, one of the creators of the training video, says Hunter helped teach Newton how to enter the scene and what to carry.

(Image: Kyle Cassidy)

Two Penn schools partner with Camden County to launch virtual reality Narcan training

The Annenberg School for Communication and School of Nursing continue their efforts to train as many people as possible on administering the lifesaving overdose reversal medication.
Brain signals can predict how often a news article is shared online
Rendering of a brain with signals insinuating AI and data.

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Brain signals can predict how often a news article is shared online

A new study from the Communication Neuroscience Lab finds that, even across cultures, neural models can reliably predict whether an article is popular on Facebook.

From Annenberg School for Communication

The alchemy behind the diamond: Unearthing baseball’s beloved mud
Shravan Pradeep places a baseball on microscopy slide.

Postdoctoral researcher Shravan Pradeep of Penn Engineering is conducting experiments to understand the flow and grip properties of the Major League Baseball’s “magic mud” in order to reverse engineer the mud and offer a mechanistic understanding of its inner workings.

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The alchemy behind the diamond: Unearthing baseball’s beloved mud

Researchers at Penn are working on cracking the code behind Major League Baseball’s “Magic Mud.”
Filipino language and culture
A group of students stand with their professor and teaching assistance. A word on the screen behind them reads, "Mabuhay!" meaning long life.

Many of the students enrolled in Beginning Filipino to connect with their heritage and communicate with their families, says Aquino (far right).

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Filipino language and culture

Started in 1996, Penn’s Filipino language program is populated with students looking to connect with their culture and converse with their families.

Kristina García

How humans use their sense of smell to find their way
Clara Raithel looks at brain scans on a computer in a lab.

Sixth-year Ph.D. student Clara Raithel looks at an anatomical brain scan taken from a previous study participant.

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How humans use their sense of smell to find their way

In the lab of neuroscientist Jay Gottfried, sixth-year psychology Ph.D. student Clara Raithel tries to understand how people’s brains respond to odors.

Michele W. Berger

Tricks, treats, retail feats: Wharton’s Halloween insights
Front entrance to a Halloween HQ superstore.

Image: iStock/Derick Hudson

Tricks, treats, retail feats: Wharton’s Halloween insights

For expert retailers and marketers, Halloween is the perfect opportunity to explore the marketing learnings of psychological consumer behavior.

From Wharton Stories