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Taylor Swift, storytelling, and climate communication
A Taylor Swift fan with friendship bracelets makes a heart sign with their hands.

As part of Climate Week at Penn, leading expert on climate solutions and clean energy Joseph Romm will lead a workshop titled “Communication is a Climate Solution: How Taylor Swift can Level Up Your Storytelling.”

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Taylor Swift, storytelling, and climate communication

Clean energy expert and senior research fellow at Penn Joseph Romm says that Taylor Swift’s lyrics offer storytelling techniques that can be applied for impact-driven climate communications.

3 min. read

Eva Dyer is listening to the brain’s code with a little help from AI
Eva Dyer

Eva Dyer is the Rachleff Associate Professor in Bioengineering and in computer and information science at the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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Eva Dyer is listening to the brain’s code with a little help from AI

Penn professor Eva Dyer merges her background in music and audio engineering with artificial intelligence to help uncover brain signals and explore how the brain processes information.

Melissa Pappas

2 min. read

Inspiring interest in water quality at Cobbs Creek
Two people in waders in Cobbs Creek getting water samples.

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Inspiring interest in water quality at Cobbs Creek

Faculty and staff, high school and Penn students, and community members are working together to collect and analyze the most detailed water quality data to date at the West Philadelphia stream.

4 min. read

Craig Roncace puts his green thumb to work
Craig Roncace, Penn’s urban park manager, gardening and caring for plants in an outdoor park setting on campus.

Craig Roncace, Penn’s urban park manager, oversees a team of 60+ staff members dedicated to waste management and campus maintenance.

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Craig Roncace puts his green thumb to work

As Penn’s urban park manager, Craig Roncace leads a versatile team in charge of outdoor maintenance, waste management, and sustainability initiatives across campus.

3 min. read

Philadelphia Flyers, Penn Medicine extend partnership to advance care through community commitments

Philadelphia Flyers, Penn Medicine extend partnership to advance care through community commitments

The two organizations will expand leading community initiatives including the existing Penn Medicine Assist program, Nurse of the Game initiative, Gritty 5K sponsorship, and create opportunities for critical care training for employees, players, and people across Philadelphia and beyond.

An overdose prediction tool for cocaine and other stimulants

An overdose prediction tool for cocaine and other stimulants

To treat stimulant use disorder more like other chronic diseases, researchers at Penn Medicine have created a prediction tool to identify who may be at risk and what they have in common.

Frank Otto

2 min. read

Bridging philosophy and politics

Bridging philosophy and politics

What does it mean for everyone to have a say in a democracy? This summer, philosopher professor Daniel Wodak and undergraduate Jasmine Ni explored the contradictions and questions raised by political equity.

From Omnia

2 min. read

A world shaped by water and access
Three people test water below a sand dam.

Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.

(Image: Courtesy of Griffin Pitt)

A world shaped by water and access

Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.

3 min.

Penn experts earn NIH Director’s awards

Penn experts earn NIH Director’s awards

Six researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine have been recognized for their creative research through the National Institutes of Health Director’s awards from the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program for their unconventional approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.