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This Wharton undergrad cycled the world’s highest volcano
Ryan Torres holds his mountain bike aloft on Locust Walk in cycling gear.

Second-year Wharton student Ryan Torres on Locust Walk with the bike that brought him to the summit of the world’s tallest volcano.

(Image: Courtesy of Wharton Stories)

This Wharton undergrad cycled the world’s highest volcano

Second-year Ryan Torres not only scaled Ojos del Salado by bike, he raised funds for World Bicycle Relief, an international nonprofit dedicated to improving access to cycling around the world.

From Wharton Stories

The psychology of playing the fool
Left, Tess Wilkinson-Ryan; right, cover of the book Fool Proof.

Tess Wilkinson-Ryan is a professor of law and psychology at Penn Carey Law.

(Images: Courtesy of Penn Law (left) and Harper Wave)

  • Q&A

    • The psychology of playing the fool

    Law professor Tess Wilkinson-Ryan’s new book “Fool Proof: How Fear of Playing the Sucker Shapes Ourselves and the Social Order―and What We Can Do About It” explores the psychology of fools, dupes, cons, and morality.
    Harnessing an innate protection against Ebola
    fluorescent microscopic image of two cells being infected with virus

    An innate mechanism in human cells may prevent Ebola virus from spreading, according to new Penn Vet-led research. Using powerful confocal microscopy, they tracked the budding of virus-like particles from cells (shown in the filamentous projections in the cell in the upper right) and how autophagy, a “self-eating” cellular process, by which viral proteins are sequestered in vesicles (shown in the cell in the lower left), inhibits virus-like particles from exiting.

    (Image: Courtesy of the Harty lab)

    Harnessing an innate protection against Ebola

    School of Veterinary Medicine researchers have identified a cellular pathway that keeps Ebola virus from exiting human cells, with implications for developing new antivirals.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    The brief: Affordable housing that’s both contextual and funky
    June Lin, Jessica Lin, and Jason Cornelison preparing a model building at the Weitzman School.

    June Lin, Jessica Lin, and Jason Cornelison preparing their model for presentation. (Image: Weitzman News)

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    The brief: Affordable housing that’s both contextual and funky

    Undergraduate architecture students and community members strike a balance for a proposed development in historic Germantown.

    From the Weitzman School of Design

    Is social media good or bad for social unity?
    icons of individuals connected by social media.

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    Is social media good or bad for social unity?

    Annenberg professors Sandra González-Bailón and Yphtach Lelkes reviewed all of the previous literature to determine what scholars have discovered to date.

    From Annenberg School for Communication

    How species partnerships evolve
    colorful coral reef with sun shining through the water

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    How species partnerships evolve

    Biologists from the School of Arts & Sciences explored how symbiotic relationships between species evolve to become specific or general, cooperative, or antagonistic.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    What is the future of Social Security?
    A social security card.

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  • Q&A

    • What is the future of Social Security?

    As Social Security continues to march toward insolvency, Olivia S. Mitchell of the Wharton School discusses current policy debates and the role of financial literacy in achieving reform.
    The case for affirmative action with professor Cara McClellan
    Affirmative action advocates rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, holding signs that read "defend diversity, affirm opportunity" as justices heard oral arguments on two cases on whether colleges and universities can continue to consider race as a factor in admissions decisions.

    Affirmative action advocates rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court as justices heard oral arguments on two cases on whether colleges and universities can continue to consider race as a factor in admissions decisions on Oct. 31, 2022. (Image: Francis Chung/E&E News/POLITICO via AP Images)

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    • The case for affirmative action with professor Cara McClellan

    The Penn Carey Law professor and founding director of the Advocacy for Racial and Civil Justice Clinic shares how affirmative action benefits institutions and how the diversity it brings helps colleges and universities fulfill their educational missions.

    Kristen de Groot

    Eight Penn professors elected 2022 AAAS Fellows
    Two rows of people: William Beltran, Brian Gregory, Insup Lee, Guo-Li Ming. Bottom row: Eric Schelter, Theodore Schurr, Warren Seider, and Karen Winey.

    Penn’s new AAAS Fellows for 2022, clockwise from top left: William Beltran, Brian Gregory, Insup Lee, Guo-Li Ming, Karen Winey, Warren Seider, Theodore Schurr, and Eric Schelter.

    (Images: Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania)

    Eight Penn professors elected 2022 AAAS Fellows

    Researchers from the School of Arts & Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Perelman School of Medicine, and School of Veterinary Medicine join a class of scientists, engineers, and innovators spanning 24 scientific disciplines.

    Michele W. Berger