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Julia Ognibene gives two thumbs up next to a series of sinks

Julia Ognibene shadows doctors in Italy

Julia Ognibene spent the summer connecting with family and shadowing doctors in Italy

Liz Magill with members of graduate and professional student community

GradFest celebrates its ‘Sweet Sixteen’

The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and the Graduate Student Center offered a mix of programming, kicking off the 2023-2024 academic year.

Wrist temperature associated with future risk of disease

A new study from Penn Medicine highlights the potential for monitoring disease risk through inexpensive, unintrusive continuous measures of skin temperature.

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Can ChatGPT help us form personal narratives?

New research from Abigail Blyler and Martin Seligman at the Positive Psychology Center found that the language model can produce accurate personal narratives from stream-of-consciousness data.

Four people looking animated while the person in front aggressively holds a pole.

Adapting translation: A reimagined ‘The Odyssey’ at Penn Live Arts

“Odyssey,” produced by The Acting Company, travels to the Annenberg Center Sept. 30 to Oct. 1. The performance is a reimagining of Professor of Classical Studies Emily Wilson’s translation of “The Odyssey.”

Two actors in fencing gear performing on stage.

From the classroom to the international stage

At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, Penn students perform a play they learned in class.

Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry positions Penn as a leader in engineering health

In the two years since the cross-disciplinary research partnership was founded, CiPD has introduced microrobots that clean teeth, a new understanding of bacterial physics in tooth decay, and promising futures for lipid nanoparticles in oral cancer treatment.

A doctor being interviewed for a podcast.

Five factors that assess well-being of science predict support for science funding

A new study from the Annenberg Public Policy Center introduces an assessment model to gauge the extent to which public perceptions align with the way scientists define their work.

Decoding acoustic objects

Third-year student Lily Wei spent the summer conducting research in the lab of Vijay Balasubramanian using algorithms to propose how the brain may recognize acoustic objects.

Millan AbiNader presenting next to a screen.

Working to understand and prevent intimate partner violence

Millan AbiNader, an assistant professor in Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice, explains how she approaches social work as a “macro” social worker, and the importance of community and connection in addressing structural factors and social ecology of gender-based violence.

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