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Quakers cook Crimson
On Saturday at the Palestra the women’s basketball team avenged its recent loss to Harvard, and on Saturday in Massachusetts, the men’s basketball defeated the Crimson, their fifth-straight win.
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How one doctor-patient relationship could change how women are treated for gynecologic cancers
In appreciation for her cancer treatment team led by Neil Taunk, patient Dalia Jakas established a fund to empower Taunk’s research into how treatment can be improved for uterine cancers like the one she experienced.
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Americans don’t understand what companies can do with their personal data
A new survey of 2,000 Americans finds that people don’t understand what marketers are learning about them online and don’t want their data collected, but feel powerless to stop it.
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The future of health research in Malawi
A workshop convened by Penn, University College Dublin, and the Young Researchers Forum in Malawi brought together stakeholders to discuss the African nation’s use of technology in health care and the double burden of non-communicable and infectious diseases.
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Understanding India’s urban future
A two-year project supported by Penn Global and the Center for the Advanced Study of India takes a deep dive into the political workings of India’s rapidly urbanizing landscape.
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Videotaping interrogations in Pennsylvania
The Quattrone Center has released “Videotaping Interrogations in Pennsylvania,” the first study to review Pennsylvania interrogation practices.
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Why COVID misinformation continues to spread
Penn Medicine’s Anish Agarwal discusses why false claims about the virus and vaccines arise and persist, plus what he hopes will come from NIH-funded research he and Penn Engineering’s Sharath Chandra Guntuku have recently begun.
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Black older Americans age faster than white counterparts
According to a new Penn study, inequities in socioeconomic resources is the main cause of biological aging as measured by DNA methylation.
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‘Mecca is Burning’ play mixes drama, poetry at the Annenberg Center
“Mecca is Burning,” a commissioned piece that will world premiere at the Annenberg Center this weekend, is a two-act play that takes an artful—but candid—look at race in the U.S.
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A simple intervention that can reduce turnover
Work can be hard, but it shouldn’t be hard all the time. New research co-authored by Wharton’s Maurice Schweitzer shows that overloading workers with too many difficult tasks in a row makes them more likely to quit.