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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.
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

Trading decisions are observable in the eyes of buyers and sellers
Closeup of an eye.

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Trading decisions are observable in the eyes of buyers and sellers

In a new collaborative study, PIK Professor Michael Platt models how the decision-making process unfolds in the brains of buyers and sellers considering a deal. These decisions were observable in eye movements and pupil dilation.

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Who, What, Why: Amy Wu and the Brain Exercise Initiative
Amy Wu

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  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Amy Wu and the Brain Exercise Initiative

    The fourth-year is the founder and president of Penn’s chapter of the Brain Exercise Initiative, a service club that connects student volunteers with senior citizens to help combat social isolation and cognitive decline.

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    Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative connects community
    Three people discussing a document at a table at a conference.

    In June 2023, Penn Nursing hosted the Summer Innovation Institute at Tangen Hall. The five-day event connected people active in health equity, including LGBTQ+ issues.

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    Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative connects community

    Based in Penn’s School of Nursing, the Eidos Initiative provides innovators in LGBTQ+ health with access to resources, research, and support from all of Penn’s 12 schools.
    The physics of fat droplets reveal DNA danger
    Microscopic view of fat molecules.

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    The physics of fat droplets reveal DNA danger

    Penn Engineers are the first to discover fat-filled lipid droplets’ surprising capability to indent and puncture the nucleus, the organelle which contains and regulates a cell’s DNA.

    Devorah Fischler

    A hub for water innovation and leadership
    Jazmin Ricks and high school students from Paul Robeson High School at Cobbs Creek.

    Jazmin Ricks teaches students from Paul Robeson High School during the 2022 Cobbs Creek Summer Enrichment program.

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    A hub for water innovation and leadership

    As the Water Center marks five years on campus, Penn Today takes a look at its achievements, ongoing projects, and plans for the future.

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    Carl June on the boundless potential of CAR T cell therapy
    Carl June with a microphone in the Penn Medicine atrium with the celebratory flash mob.

    Carl June, at the flash mob celebration of the FDA approval of the CAR T cell therapy he developed, in August 2017.

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    Carl June on the boundless potential of CAR T cell therapy

    In a Q & A, June, the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy, and Daniel Baker, a fourth-year doctoral student in Penn’s Cell and Molecular Biology department, discuss how the treatment can extend to treating diseases beyond cancer.

    From Penn Medicine News