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A two-time bone marrow donor makes helping people his profession
Left, Jake Purnell in a hospital bed connected to wires and monitors giving a thumbs up. Right, Purnell in scrubs and a face mask sits on the floor petting a dog.

Jake Purnell, a two-time bone marrow donor, is a nurse at the Penn Medicine Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

A two-time bone marrow donor makes helping people his profession

The kindness of nurses during his first bone marrow donation led Jake Purnell, a nurse at the Penn Medicine Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine, on his career path.

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Making meaning from the loss of a child
woman sitting cross-legged on sofa using breast milk pumps

Pumping and donating milk to a nonprofit milk bank offers a way to channel grief for some bereaved parents whose child died at birth, according to research by Diane Spatz of the School of Nursing and colleagues. 

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Making meaning from the loss of a child

Research by Diane Spatz of the School of Nursing and colleagues reveals how donating milk served as an important part of the grieving process for some parents who had lost a baby before or at birth.

Katherine Unger Baillie , Michele W. Berger

Mural expresses culture and belonging in South Philadelphia
mural with many illustrations in bright colors on a long wall with a sidewalk and cars

Mural artist Shira Walinsky of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and fourth-grade teacher Lisa Yau, a fellow in the Penn-based Teachers Institute of Philadelphia, worked together with students to transform a blank wall across the street from the Francis Scott Key School entrance on 8th Street in South Philadelphia. (Image: Steve Weinik, courtesy of Mural Arts Philadelphia)

Mural expresses culture and belonging in South Philadelphia

Shira Walinsky of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and fourth-grade teacher Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau, a fellow in the Penn-based Teachers Institute of Philadelphia, worked with students to create a mural across from Francis Scott Key School in South Philadelphia.
Regular folks in the Roman Empire
Kim Bowes and the cover of her book The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2014 with an illustration of a small wooden house in the country with a tree

Kimberly Bowes, archaeologist, classical studies professor, and director of the Integrated Studies Program, focuses not on the elite during the Roman Empire, but on the lived experience of the working poor and the economies that dominated their lives. Bowes has received both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to expand her research.

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    • Regular folks in the Roman Empire

    Kimberly Bowes of the School of Arts & Sciences focuses on the lived experience of the Roman Empire’s working poor and the economies that dominated their lives 2,00 years ago.
    How bacteria store information to kill viruses (but not themselves)
    A microscope image of a group of phages
    A group of bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, imaged using transmission electron microscopy. New research sheds light on how bacteria fight off these invaders without triggering an autoimmune response. (Image: ZEISS Microscopy, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

    How bacteria store information to kill viruses (but not themselves)

    Researchers from the School of Arts & Sciences have discovered that the balance between fighting viruses and avoiding autoimmunity has a key role in shaping how bacteria “remember” old infections.

    Luis Melecio-Zambrano

    Building Penn Medicine’s Pavilion helped launch his career. Now, William Griffin is going places
    Vice President, Kamala Harris stands at a ceremony with William Griffin and his wife, who is holding their son.

    Vice President Kamala Harris, left, with William Griffin and his wife and son. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

    Building Penn Medicine’s Pavilion helped launch his career. Now, William Griffin is going places

    Griffin participated in PennAssist, a program to help graduates of Philadelphia’s career and technical high schools and city residents enter the building trades, and made an impression on the construction management team for the Pavilion.

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    May graduate Ethan Kallett named a 2022 Yenching Scholar
    Ethan Kallett standing outside on a sidewalk

    Ethan Kallett, a May graduate of Penn’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded full funding to pursue an interdisciplinary master’s degree in China studies with a concentration in economics and management at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing.

    May graduate Ethan Kallett named a 2022 Yenching Scholar

    Ethan Kallett has been awarded full funding to pursue an interdisciplinary master’s degree in China studies, with a concentration in economics and management, at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing.