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What the Twitter upheaval means to Penn health services researchers
A Twitter icon on the ground with a large crowd of people circling, as seen from above.

What the Twitter upheaval means to Penn health services researchers

LDI senior fellows weigh in on Twitter’s current upheaval, and whether they think the situation at the social media company will impact how they disseminate research in the future.

Hoag Levins

Soft robots gain new strength
A robotic arm holding the hand of a mannequin.

In a demonstration, the clutch was able to increase the strength of an elbow joint to be able to support the weight of a mannequin arm at the low energy demand of 125 volts. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

Soft robots gain new strength

Penn Engineers have developed a clutch 63 times stronger than current electroadhesive clutches, making soft robots stronger and safer and making virtual reality gloves feel more real.

From Penn Engineering Today

Penn senior and four alumni have received Schwarzman Scholarships
Top row, left to right: Chin Chin Choi, Aaron Guo, and Jiaqi Liu. Bottom row, left to right: Moksh Jawa and Edward Zhi En Tan.

Top row, left to right: Chin Chin Choi, Aaron Guo, and Jiaqi Liu. Bottom row, left to right: Moksh Jawa and Edward Zhi En Tan.

Penn senior and four alumni have received Schwarzman Scholarships

The Scholarships fund a one-year master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
A relief wall that’s a window onto architecture’s future
A large two-story wall inside a library beside a staircase.

The wall is a foam construction designed using artificial intelligence and fabricated by a robot in Penn’s Robotics Lab at Meyerson Hall. (Image: Jay Kan)

A relief wall that’s a window onto architecture’s future

A public library relief wall is a novel approach to architectural design and robotic fabrication from the Weitzman School and the Robotics Lab.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Sawyer, Dingle capture weekly conference awards
At left, Simone Sawyer holds up her follow through after shooting the ball. At right, Jordan Dingle dribbles the ball up the court.

Image: Penn Athletics

Sawyer, Dingle capture weekly conference awards

Sawyer, of the women’s basketball team, has been selected Ivy League Rookie of the Week, and Dingle, of the men’s basketball team, earned Player of the Week honors for the second week in a row.
People and places at Penn: Research
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People and places at Penn: Research

From Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall to the Schuylkill River, four researchers share their science and their spaces.

Kristina García

Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence
John MacDonald and Gina South in West Philly

John MacDonald of the Department of Criminology and Eugenia South of the Perelman School of Medicine.

Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence

Installing working windows and doors, cleaning trash, and weeding at abandoned houses led to safety improvements and should be considered in efforts to create healthy communities, according to researchers from University of Pennsylvania and Columbia.

Kelsey Geesler

At Penn Museum, a one-man show on Palestinian-Israeli identity
Ibrahim Miari performing on stage wearing a latex glove holding a small object.

Ibrahim Miari, a lecturer in Jewish Studies, is performing at the Penn Museum on Dec. 8.

At Penn Museum, a one-man show on Palestinian-Israeli identity

“In Between” is an award-winning, semi-autobiographical one-man show by Ibrahim Miari that portrays the complexities and contradictions inherent in Palestinian-Israeli identity.

Anna Chen