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Black older Americans age faster than white counterparts
African American senior citizen in a wheelchair with a group of people in the background playing a game.

Image: iStock/Prostock-Studio

Black older Americans age faster than white counterparts

According to a new Penn study, inequities in socioeconomic resources is the main cause of biological aging as measured by DNA methylation.

From Penn Memory Center

Why COVID misinformation continues to spread
A silhouette of a person in black on a red background. The person is holding a phone that reads "COVID-19" and the back of the head is open, with many different symbols flowing out, including a globe, a hospital, a needle, a vial, a mask, the dollar sign, and a TV screen that reads "Fake News."

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  • Q&A

    • Why COVID misinformation continues to spread

    Penn Medicine’s Anish Agarwal discusses why false claims about the virus and vaccines arise and persist, plus what he hopes will come from NIH-funded research he and Penn Engineering’s Sharath Chandra Guntuku have recently begun.

    Michele W. Berger

    ‘Mecca is Burning’ play mixes drama, poetry at the Annenberg Center
    Composite photo of “Mecca is Burning" cast members

    The cast of “Mecca is Burning.” Top row, left to right: Steven Peacock Jacoby, Kenya Wilson, Imana Breaux, Benjamin Rowe; bottom row, left to right: Ashlee Danielle, Alyssa Carter, Alton Ray, and Yohanna Florentino.

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn Live Arts)

    ‘Mecca is Burning’ play mixes drama, poetry at the Annenberg Center

    “Mecca is Burning,” a commissioned piece that will world premiere at the Annenberg Center this weekend, is a two-act play that takes an artful—but candid—look at race in the U.S.
    The struggle for equality in antebellum America
    Robert Purvis, center, surrounded by others in a historical photo from 1851.

    Robert Purvis (seated, center) with other members of the Board of the Pennsylvania Antislavery Society in 1851.

    (Image: Courtesy of Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College)

    The struggle for equality in antebellum America

    A new article tells the story of Robert Purvis, a Black Philadelphian and abolitionist whose quest to secure a passport reflects the lives of other free Black people in the decades leading up to the American Civil War.

    From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

    Trained dogs can sniff out a deadly deer disease
    A Finnish spitz dog sniffs at a jar labeled CWD+

    Jari, an 8-year-old Finnish spitz, takes in the odor of a sample taken from a deer with chronic wasting disease. Penn Vet scientists are working to see whether detection dogs trained to discern the disease’s scent could be employed as a tool in helping contain its spread.

    (Image: Shelby Wise/Wise K9 Photography)

    Trained dogs can sniff out a deadly deer disease

    The proof-of-concept investigation by School of Veterinary Medicine researchers suggests detection dogs could be an asset in the effort to identify, contain, and manage chronic wasting disease, a highly contagious ailment.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Topping off the Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology
    Onlookers watch as the last beam is put into place on a construction site.

    On a chilly afternoon, the final steel beam was signed and hoisted atop the Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology. The moment was one that signals “Penn’s rise as a global leader in energy science,” said President Liz Magill, who was joined for the celebration by donor P. Roy Vagelos and deans Steven Fluharty and Vijay Kumar, as well as students, faculty, and staff from across the University.

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    Topping off the Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology

    A project nearly four years in the making sees new heights as the Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology marks a significant milestone in its construction.
    The future of conservatism
    Alfie Arun smiles from behind his laptopas he listens to the student debate in the Future of Conservatism class.

    Alfie Arun says he came into the class with an antagonistic view of conservatives, but he’s not leaving with the same mindset.

    The future of conservatism

    A one-of-a-kind political science course taught by Deirdre Martinez of the School of Arts & Sciences and Evan McMullin, a Penn alum who was running for the Senate during the class, took students through the past and present conservative movement.

    Kristen de Groot

    New approach for brain cell immunotherapy
    Microscopic view of Microglia cell and pyramidal neuron.

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    New approach for brain cell immunotherapy

    Penn Medicine researchers have developed a selective medicine to get rid of old microglia, while also replenishing them with transplanted surrogate cells in their place, suggesting future potential for treating and even preventing neurodegenerative disorders.