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Where and when violent crime rates fall, heart disease deaths fall, too
Chicago city skyline.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine evaluated 15 years of data gathered from the city of Chicago for their study.

Where and when violent crime rates fall, heart disease deaths fall, too

A study of data from Chicago by Perelman School of Medicine researchers revealed that, as violent crime decreases, so does the area’s death rate from heart disease.

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What defines judicial activism? Not being an activist, says Kermit Roosevelt
The nine current U.S. Supreme Court justices.

Members of the Supreme Court: Seated from left are Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Standing from left are Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. (Image: Erin Schaff/AP Images)

  • Q&A

    • What defines judicial activism? Not being an activist, says Kermit Roosevelt

    The David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice at Penn Carey Law explains judicial activism in a historical sense, and how justices today interpret the Constitution and federal and state policies.
    ‘Stop the Bleed’ program helps bystanders in India aid accident victims
    A group of men in India stand in a line holding first aid kits and certificates

    Participants in the A-B-C Stop the Bleed program hold their first aid kits and certificates of training in the Kalakal neighborhood, outside Hyderabad, India. (Image: Courtesy of A-B-C Stop the Bleed)

    ‘Stop the Bleed’ program helps bystanders in India aid accident victims

    The innovative program addresses the country’s high rate of preventable fatalities by offering training on how to recognize and stop life-threatening bleeding.

    Kristen de Groot

    The economic impact of rural hospital closures
    Two vehicles parked outside the Harris Sub-Regional Clinic in Alaska

    The economic impact of rural hospital closures

    A study led by Paula Chatterjee and colleagues shows that rural hospital closures reflect existing economic downturns in communities and economies that were already declining before the hospital shut its doors.

    From Penn LDI

    Solving the mystery of migration into Micronesia
    A map of the Pacific Ocean. Australia is in the bottom-left corner, with Indonesia and New Guinea to the north. Also pinpointed are Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, with arrows signifying five migration paths designated M1, M2, M3, M4, and M5. M1, M2, and M4 originate in East Asia. M3 originates around New Guinea, and M5 originates between Polynesia and Melanesia.

    Map of five inferred streams of migration into Micronesia. (Image: Liu et al., 2022, “Ancient DNA reveals five streams of migration into Micronesia and matrilocality in early Pacific seafarers,” Science, Vol 377, Issue 6601, pp. 72-79, DOI: 10.1126/science.abm6536)

  • Q&A

    • Solving the mystery of migration into Micronesia

    Penn anthropologist Theodore Schurr explains how the use of both ancient DNA and modern genetic materials revealed five paths into this western Pacific region of Oceania, and uncovered subtleties about the society’s marital customs.

    Michele W. Berger

    Both gun owners and non-gun owners trust doctors in gun safety talks
    A family in a doctor’s office, one parent holds a young child who is elbow-bumping a masked doctor.

    Both gun owners and non-gun owners trust doctors in gun safety talks

    New Penn Medicine research shows that parents are open to talking about gun safety measures with their children’s pediatricians and willing to change firearm storage practices.

    From Penn Medicine News

    New Arthur Ross Gallery exhibit ‘From Studio to Doorstep’
    two adults and one child look at prints hanging on a very pink wall

    Prints created for middle class Americans from 1934 to 2000 are featured in the current Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition, “From Studio to Doorstep,” through Aug. 21. The 37 signed and numbered Associated American Artists prints are part of the Penn Art Collection, many exhibited for the first time.

    New Arthur Ross Gallery exhibit ‘From Studio to Doorstep’

    Prints from 1934 to 2000 are featured in the current Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition, “From Studio to Doorstep,” through Aug. 21. The 37 Associated American Artists prints are part of the Penn Art Collection.
    PIK Professor Kevin Johnson: Informatics evangelist
    kevin johnson at biology pond

    PIK Professor Kevin Johnson: Informatics evangelist

    The Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with appointments in Penn Engineering and the Perelman School of Medicine on forging his own path in the fields of health care and computer science.

    From Penn Engineering Today

    Penn Abroad: Rising senior Ricardo Del Rio in Switzerland
    Ricardo Del Rio standing outside with snow-covered mountains behind him

    Rising senior Ricardo Del Rio -- an electrical engineering major in the School of Engineering and Applied Science from Guadalajara, Mexico -- studied abroad at ETH Zurich in Switzerland during the spring semester.

    Penn Abroad: Rising senior Ricardo Del Rio in Switzerland

    Rising senior Ricardo Del Rio, an electrical engineering major in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, studied at ETH Zurich during the spring semester.