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Identities in harmony: How Beth Burton integrates the personal with the professional
A woman with purple hair sits at a piano and stares off into the distance.

Beth Burton, a graduate student at the Perelman School of Medicine, has degrees in both music and science. Even as a full-time researcher, she still finds time to play piano. Image: Courtesy of Beth Burton.

Identities in harmony: How Beth Burton integrates the personal with the professional

The doctoral candidate in the Perelman School of Medicine is a scientist studying the genetic causes of Alzheimer’s. She’s also a musician, a queer woman, and a voice for those with genetic disorders.

Luis Melecio-Zambrano

Video experiment brokers peace among ex-FARC combatants and locals in Colombia
Film still of two Colombian children meeting an ex-FARC member.

An image from the intervention video shown to promote peace between everyday Colombians and ex-FARC members (Image: Pirata Films)

Video experiment brokers peace among ex-FARC combatants and locals in Colombia

A new study from the Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab explores the impact of media interventions on brokering peace among former members of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and non-FARC Colombians.

From Annenberg School for Communication

Penn Abroad: Rising senior Kiersten Thomas in Sweden 
Kiersten Thomas crouching in snow with dogs attached to dogsled on frozen tundra with mountains in the background

Rising senior Kiersten Thomas, a health and societies major in the College of Arts and Sciences studied abroad at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Penn Abroad: Rising senior Kiersten Thomas in Sweden 

Rising senior Kiersten Thomas, a health and societies major in the College of Arts and Sciences studied abroad at the Stockholm School of Economics.
The Great War and memory
Penn students walk around World War One-era trenches in a French field

Students tour the battlefield in the Butte de Vauquois in northern France. (Image: Courtesy of Arielle Schweber)

The Great War and memory

History professor Warren Breckman took his Penn Global Seminar students to the Western Front area of northern France and Belgium to look at World War I through the intersections of personal and public memory.

Kristen de Groot

Krissy Turner named new coach of women’s soccer team
Wearing a Monmouth jacket and gray hat, Krissy Turner walks on the soccer field during her time at Monmouth.

Krissy Turner named new coach of women’s soccer team

Turner comes to Penn from Monmouth University, where she was nine-time conference coach of the year. Her career record at Monmouth was 282-130-43 and her teams posted 15 consecutive winning seasons.

Penn Today Staff

Bioengineering technology keeps track of living cells and tissues
Fluorescent markers highlighting individual cells.

A new chemistry technique developed by Jina Ko introduces a method for multiplexed temporospatial imaging of living cells with immunofluorescence. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

Bioengineering technology keeps track of living cells and tissues

A new chemistry technique developed by Jina Ko, assistant bioengineering professor, and colleagues allows for a wider range of fluorescent markers to be added to individual cells without damaging them in the process.

From Penn Engineering Today

Nine questions for Penn’s ninth president
Liz Magill

Nine questions for Penn’s ninth president

Liz Magill shares insights about her scholarship and her background, what excites her about living in Philadelphia, why she is inspired by the Penn community, and more.

Penn Today Staff

Can China stop climate change?
Scott Moore sitting on a bench Scott Moore, director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives, pictured along Locust Walk.

Can China stop climate change?

In a political science course and new book, Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives Scott Moore unfurls the layers of China’s approach to sustainability and technology.