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Pre-pandemic conspiratorial mindset predicted hesitance to accept COVID-19 vaccine
A person holds a sign during a protest that reads WELL INFORMED NOT CONSENTING.

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Pre-pandemic conspiratorial mindset predicted hesitance to accept COVID-19 vaccine

A new study from the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that people who evinced a conspiracy mentality in 2019, prior to the pandemic, were subsequently more likely to believe COVID-19 conspiracy theories.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

What U.S. adults know and believe about polio and the bivalent COVID booster
healthcare professional with syringe and vaccine

What U.S. adults know and believe about polio and the bivalent COVID booster

A new survey finds that while Americans say they do not have concerns about the safety or effectiveness of the bivalent COVID booster, they show much less acceptance of it than the vaccines against polio or monkeypox.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

Tuskegee-Penn partnership advances Black preservation
Weitzman students standing outside the St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church and The Armstrong School.

Tuskegee’s Kwesi Daniels leads a visit to St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church and The Armstrong School. (Image: Courtesy of Weitzman News)

Tuskegee-Penn partnership advances Black preservation

Architecture students at Tuskegee University are studying historic preservation through explorations of buildings on and near the historic HBCU campus, in part through a collaboration with the Weitzman School of Design.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Marci Hamilton works to prevent child sex abuse globally
Marci Hamilton sits at a table beside large windows overlooking campus.

Marci Hamilton, Professor of Practice in Political Science. (Image: Jason Varney/OMNIA)

Marci Hamilton works to prevent child sex abuse globally

A new initiative from Hamilton’s CHILD USA and a survivor-led nonprofit called the Brave Movement will research statutes of limitations for every country in the world and track their findings in a global dashboard.

Michele W. Berger

A growing focus on equitable oral care for people with disabilities
dental student in gown, gloves, and mask works on a patient in a dental chair

Student training is a large component of an increasing focus on care for people with disabilities at the School of Dental Medicine. (Image: Courtesy of Dentsply Sirona)

A growing focus on equitable oral care for people with disabilities

Through global outreach, enhanced student training, continuing education for practitioners, and the busy Care Center for Persons with Disabilities, the School of Dental Medicine is working to break down barriers to care.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Home health care—a crucial edge for the future of medicine
nurse helping elderly person cross the street with a walker (On homepage) Renee Jones helps Valerie Simon toward her ultimate recovery goal after a hip replacement: being able to walk to the corner store and cross the street before the light turns red, using a cane rather than a walker.

Home health care—a crucial edge for the future of medicine

Home care has long been a part of health care, but it was the COVID-19 pandemic that led Penn Medicine to rethink who needed to be in the hospital.

Jen A. Miller

Recreating the adrenal gland in a petri dish
A pink stained microscopic image shows the round structure of adrenal organoids growing together

The structure and function of adrenal gland ‘organoids’ grown in a petri dish at the School of Veterinary Medicine closely replicated that of the human adrenal gland, according to a new study. (Image: Courtesy of the Sasaki laboratory)

Recreating the adrenal gland in a petri dish

A School of Veterinary Medicine–led team coaxed stem cells to take on the characteristics and functions of a human adrenal gland, progress that could lead to new therapies for adrenal insufficiencies and a deeper understanding of the genetics of such disorders.

Katherine Unger Baillie