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Reopening the ARCH building
President Liz Magill cuts the ceremonial ribbon with three students. A wood-paneled staircase is the backdrop

Jeffrey Yu, President Magill, Taussia Boadi, and Elizabeth Ramos cut the ribbon to celebrate the reopening of the ARCH building with cultural resource centers and affiliated groups, many of which were formerly housed at the garden level, now having full use of the building.

Reopening the ARCH building

A Sept. 7 event celebrated the building’s new incarnation as a centrally located space dedicated exclusively to cultural resource centers and affiliate groups.

Kristina García

President Magill’s Phillies debut
Liz Magill holds a baseball on the field of Citizens Bank Park

President Magill’s Phillies debut

Penn’s ninth president threw a ceremonial first pitch at Saturday’s baseball game.

Lauren Hertzler

Solving medical mysteries with genetics: The Penn Neurogenetics Therapy Center
Janet Waterhouse practicing yoga.

After decades, Janet Waterhouse received a diagnosis from a genetic counselor at Penn Medicine. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

Solving medical mysteries with genetics: The Penn Neurogenetics Therapy Center

The Penn Neurogenetics Therapy Center works to achieve a genetic diagnosis for as many patients as possible, and establish clinical trials using novel gene and molecular therapies.

Kelsey Geesler

Digital assets and the future of finance
Rostin Behnam and Sarah Hammer sitting on stage.

Sarah Hammer, managing director of the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance at the Wharton School, and Rostin Behnam, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), lead a discussion about “Digital Assets and the Future of Global Financial Stability” at the Perry World House. (Image: Perry World House)

Digital assets and the future of finance

Perry World House and the Wharton School co-hosted a lecture that examined how digital assets have grown in recent years.

Dee Patel

T cells that ‘nibble’ tumors unwittingly help cancer evade the immune response
Fluorescent microscopic image of three T cells surrounding a cancer cell

Tcells surround a cancer cell to finish it off, but such interactions do not always end with the T cells victorious. Researchers from Penn detail how cancer cells can prompt T cells to ingest bits of cancer cell membrane, a process known as trogocytosis. The cancer may evade immune detection as a result. (Image: Alex Ritter, Jennifer Lippincott Schwartz and Gillian Griffiths, National Institutes of Health)

T cells that ‘nibble’ tumors unwittingly help cancer evade the immune response

Blocking this process, known as trogocytosis, improved the ability of a CAR T cell therapy to treat cancer in mice, according to research led by School of Veterinary Medicine scientists.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Reflections on the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II
Framed photo of Queen Elizabeth sits amid bouquets of flowers

A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II sits amidst floral tributes and notes outside the gates of Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch died on Sept. 8 after 70 years on the throne. She was 96. (Image: AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Reflections on the legacy of Queen Elizabeth II

Five experts from the University consider the regent’s seven-decade reign, weighing everything from the changing role of media in crafting her image to the future of the United Kingdom.

Kristen de Groot, Michele W. Berger, Louisa Shepard

Potential new therapeutic targets to treat melanoma
A doctor checks a person’s arm for melanoma with a hand-held scanning device.

Potential new therapeutic targets to treat melanoma

Penn Medicine research shows that a relative lack of DOPA, and not simply susceptibility to sun damage, helps explain why melanoma is much more common in people with light skin tones.

Alex Gardner

When curved materials flatten, simple geometry can predict the wrinkle patterns that emerge
A circular cutout with wrinkles forming in many patterns.

A circular cutout of a thin spherical cap carefully deposited onto a pool of water. The sheet forms a complex pattern of wrinkles to accommodate the change in geometry from a sphere to a plane. (Image: Monica Ripp, Paulsen Lab, Syracuse University)

When curved materials flatten, simple geometry can predict the wrinkle patterns that emerge

The findings—from a collaboration between Penn, Syracuse, and the University of Illinois Chicago—have a range of implications, from how materials interact with moisture to the way flexible electronics bend.

Michele W. Berger

Domenic Vitiello’s ‘Sanctuary City’
A group of people carrying plastic bags cross a dirt road towards a bus

Migrants are loaded onto a bus for the U.S. Border Patrol detention center on the second day of the implementation of the “Credible Fear and Asylum Processing Interim Final Rule” on June 1, 2022 in La Joya, Texas. “A majority of people in this country believe that there is a quote, invasion at the southern border,” Vitiello says.  (Image: John Lamparski/NurPhoto via AP)

Domenic Vitiello’s ‘Sanctuary City’

In a book talk at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, Domenic Vitiello discussed immigration and community.

Kristina García