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News・ Education, Business, & Law
Sharon Wolf’s work in Ghana expands to address pandemic-related inequalities
The assistant professor at Penn GSE applies research of children, their primary caregiver, and teachers throughout the pandemic about their experiences with remote schooling to a new approach in controlling learning opportunities before gaps in learning form.
News・ Campus & Community
Veterans at Penn
Jesse Hamilton, Jason Hartwig, and Greg Luttman are incorporating their military experience and varied perspectives into their research and work.
News・ Sports
Dynamic duo: Football’s Ryan Cragun and Rory Starkey Jr. bond on the field and off
Although they come from different environments, the senior wide receivers on the football team have developed a close friendship since arriving on campus in 2018. Both are enrolled in the Wharton School.
News・ Health Sciences
A Black-owned radio station, a physician, and a quest to prevent colon cancer
A unique community-based campaign by Penn Medicine, WURD, Philadelphia’s Black-owned and -operated talk radio station, and other organizations provide free colon cancer testing kits and follow-up support to Philadelphia residents.
News・ Science & Technology
‘Encrypted’ peptides could be wellspring of natural antibiotics
An interdisciplinary team of Penn researchers have used a carefully designed algorithm to discover a new suite of antimicrobial peptides, or naturally occurring antibiotics, in the human genome.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
‘Under Pressure: Essays on Urban Housing’ is released
The new publication, edited by Hina Jamelle, senior lecturer and director of urban housing in the Department of Architecture, gathers and contextualizes recent conversations on urban housing through a design lens.
News・ Campus & Community
Penn at COP26: By the numbers
A look at who is representing the University at this global conference, what they’re focused on, and how it fits into the bigger picture of worldwide climate action.
News・ Health Sciences
New study illuminates the biology of common heart disorder
Dilated cardiomyopathy, an often fatal heart disorder, due to titin gene mutations involves both a shortage of good titin and a buildup of mutant, potentially “bad” titin.
News・ Education, Business, & Law
Centering Black students in language education
Ensuring equity for Black students in language education was the focus of a conference co-organized by the Graduate School of Education’s Nelson Flores, an expert in bilingual education.
News・ Health Sciences
New gene-editing technique can ‘turn on’ enzymes that cause DNA base mutations
The novel Penn method of splitting specific mutator enzymes and then triggering them to reconstitute has been patented, and allows for new possibilities in biologic and therapeutic research, including cancer.