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Black Puerto Rican history
Daniel Morales-Armstrong sits on a park bench in front of Penn's College Hall

Africana Studies and History Ph.D. candidate Daniel Morales-Armstrong’s research looks at Black Puerto Rican history.

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Black Puerto Rican history

Ph.D. candidate Daniel Morales-Armstrong’s research considers whose voices and narratives prevail and whose are plagued by silences.

Kristen de Groot

Sexual health topics for parents to address with adolescent GBQ male children
A young boy sitting on a couch listening to his parent.

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Sexual health topics for parents to address with adolescent GBQ male children

Inclusive sexual health education reduces young gay, bisexual, and queer (GBQ) men’s vulnerability to poor sexual health outcomes, however, conservative ideologies dominate policies on school-based sex education and view topics like same-sex attractions as controversial.

From Penn Nursing News

Penn named top producer of Fulbright U.S. students
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Penn named top producer of Fulbright U.S. students

The U.S. Department of State has named the University as a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Top Producing Institution for the 2022-23 academic year.

Dee Patel

Rewiring blood cells to give rise to precursors of sperm
microscopic image with blue, red, and green fluorescent labeling indicates cells that are developing to resemble germ cells

Providing the inducible pluripotent stem cells with appropriate growth conditions and signals, the research team was able to coax the cells to begin to resemble primordial germ cells found in marmoset embryos.

(Image: Yasunari Seita)

Rewiring blood cells to give rise to precursors of sperm

School of Veterinary Medicine researchers teamed with scientists at the University of Texas at San Antonio to transform blood cells to regain a flexible fate, growing into a precursor of sperm cells.

Katherine Unger Baillie

The storm of 1928 and the tempest’s legacies
A statue depicts a woman holding a baby, a school aged child and a man running from a hurricane.

A statue depicts a family fleeing from a hurricane in Belle Glade, Florida. A hurricane in 1928 caused Lake Okeechobee to breach its dike, wiping out the town and killing thousands. (Image: Courtesy of Brett Robert)

The storm of 1928 and the tempest’s legacies

Brett Robert’s research looks at a hurricane that killed thousands across the Caribbean and into Florida. His work explores how racial relationships shape the way people live and die within their environments.

Kristen de Groot

Flu vaccination rate holds but misinformation about flu and COVID persists
A person getting a vaccine shot.

Image: iStock/jacoblund

Flu vaccination rate holds but misinformation about flu and COVID persists

The latest Annenberg Science Knowledge survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center highlights continuing uncertainty about consequential information about the flu, COVID-19, and vaccination.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

The search for meaning
Seven students smile under the canopy of a motor-powered boat travelling on a river

Traveling by boat along the River Kwai, where the students spent their New Year.

(Image: Justin McDaniel)

The search for meaning

During the course Living Deliberately: Monks, Saints, and the Contemplative Life, taught by Justin McDaniel of the School of Arts & Sciences, students experiment with ascetic practices.

Kristina García