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$10M gift from Robin and Marc Wolpow’s Arbour Way Foundation launches healthcare entrepreneurship opportunities at Venture Lab
Five people engaged in conversation seated in a lounge.

Student entrepreneurs engaging with each other in Tangen Hall, the home of Venture Lab and innovative student programs such as those supported by the Wolpows and The Arbour Way Foundation.

(Image: Jay Kan/Venture Lab)

$10M gift from Robin and Marc Wolpow’s Arbour Way Foundation launches healthcare entrepreneurship opportunities at Venture Lab

The landmark gift will create vibrant programming focused on health care innovation and co-curricular learning and collaboration across the University of Pennsylvania.
Smoke safety: What to know and how to keep safe with poor air quality
A person crosses the Schuylkill River on a blue bike. The city skyline behind him is obscured with smoke haze.

A person cycles past the skyline in Philadelphia shrouded in haze, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside.

(Image: AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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    • Smoke safety: What to know and how to keep safe with poor air quality

    Olajumoke O. Fadugba of the Perelman School of Medicine addresses why smoke irritates the body, why people with allergies and asthma are particularly affected, and how to stay safe. Writer: Kristina García

    Kristina García

    Black Law Student Association: Serving Black communities across the globe
    Members of Penn’s BLSA in Ghana.

    Image: Penn Carey Law

    Black Law Student Association: Serving Black communities across the globe

    The Penn Carey Law BLSA members have been traveling to and working in Ghana since the early 2000s. This year, BLSA worked with partner law firm B&P establishing and growing the firm’s pro bono practice.

    From Penn Carey Law

    Putting biomedical research advances within reach
    A medical worker gives a person a Covid vaccine.

    Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine Magazine

    Putting biomedical research advances within reach

    Treatments and vaccines are only useful in the hands of the people who need them, and Penn Medicine is working toward better access and equity for biomedical innovations.

    Karen L. Brooks for Penn Medicine Magazine

    The evolution of societal cooperation
    Graphic ilustration of people holding hands in a concentric circle formation.

    Image: iStock/melitas

    The evolution of societal cooperation

    Research led by the School of Arts & Sciences’ Joshua Plotkin and Taylor Kessinger sheds light on the impact of social contexts and multilayered societies on promoting cooperative behavior.
    ‘Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race and Rights in the Age of Abolition’
    Left side of image shows a book cover reading "Undoing Slavery" and the right side of the image shows the author, Kathleen Brown.

    Kathleen Brown's new book sheds new light on the abolitionist movement.

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn Press/Kathleen Brown)

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    • ‘Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race and Rights in the Age of Abolition’

    Historian Kathleen M. Brown’s new book reexamines the antislavery struggle and is the focus of the first episode of a new podcast series from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

    Kristen de Groot

    Ancient food and flavor
    Four people outside looking at a wood planter box filled with plants

    The Penn Museum’s new exhibition, “Ancient Food & Flavor,” is both inside and outside, with planter boxes featuring crops from four countries in a courtyard. The exhibition was co-curated by the Museum’s Chantel White (left), who discussed the plant choices with visitors during a recent tour.  

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    Ancient food and flavor

    Food remains dating back as far as 6,000 years found at archaeological sites are now on view in a new indoor-outdoor exhibition at the Penn Museum, “Ancient Food & Flavor,” through the fall of 2024. 
    Why is machine learning trending in medical research but not in our doctor’s offices?
    A robot superimposed over data.

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    Why is machine learning trending in medical research but not in our doctor’s offices?

    Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Konrad Kording will lead Penn’s NIH-funded cohort for making advancements in the field of machine learning in biomedical research by creating the Community for Rigor, which will provide open-access resources on conducting sound science.

    From Penn Engineering Today

    Fulbright 2023 U.S. Student Program grants awarded to 29 Penn affiliates
    29 people in a grid

    Twenty-nine Penn students, recent graduates, and alumni have been offered Fulbright grants for the 2023-24 academic year, from left: (top row) Anuj Amin, Ella Atsavapranee, Rebecca Bean, Rachael (Viola) Bordon, Erin Brennan, Mia Cheung; (second row) Allison Chou, Teresa Christensen, Sabrina de Brito, Ashley Fuchs, Zacharia Hamdi, Nilesh Kavthekar; (third row) Vincent Kelley, Lauren Lamb, Esther Lee, Beyoncé Lightfoot, Colin Lodewick, Lea Mangifesta; (fourth row) Vanessa Martinez Penn, Anya Miller, Marissa Mojena, Priyamvada Nambrath, Trevor Núñez, Sriram Palepu; (bottom row) Kyra Schulman, Laila Shadid, Ingrid Sotelo, Sally Thomas, and Erin Wrightson. 

    (Images: Courtesy of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships) 

    Fulbright 2023 U.S. Student Program grants awarded to 29 Penn affiliates

    Twenty-nine University of Pennsylvania students, recent graduates, and alumni have been offered Fulbright grants for the 2023-24 academic year to conduct research, pursue graduate degrees, or teach English in more than 20 nations.