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Showing up for Penn in London
A capacity audience attended an academic symposium in London titled “Frontiers of Knowledge and Discovery: Leading in a Changing World.”
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Art Matters: Painter Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Forward Together’
The powerful print depicts Harriet Tubman, traveling at night and following the North Star, guiding a group of enslaved African Americans on their perilous journey to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
News・ Science & Technology
Penn pioneers a ‘one-pot platform’ to promptly produce mRNA delivery particles
New lipid platform enables rapid synthesis of molecules that can shuttle therapeutics for a range of diseases with a high degree of organ specificity.
News・ Education, Business, & Law
Protecting against burnout
Penn GSE’s Kandi Wiens’ latest book aims to help readers build resilience to stress and heal their relationship to work.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
The anthropology of plastics in India
Doctoral candidate Adwaita Banerjee uses ethnographic research to document the ecological transition of the Deonar dumping ground, where thousands of Dalits and Muslim migrants mine the area for plastic that can be resold and recycled.
News・ Health Sciences
Better survival rates from hospital-based donor care for lung transplants
A new study by Penn researchers has examined, for the first time, the differences in lung transplant graft outcomes from organs recovered from the two types of deceased organ donor care facilities operating in the United States.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Takeaways from the U.K. elections
Political scientist Brendan O’Leary of the School of Arts & Sciences offers his take on the Labour Party’s landslide victory and what it means going forward.
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Social media use is associated with more frequent vaccination
Researchers from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that more social media use actually correlates with more vaccination, but the reasons differ between Democrats and Republicans.
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Dual degree nursing student takes on PennCASE summer internship
William Xi’s eight-week CASE Summer Internship with Penn Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania Health System involves data management, artificial intelligence, and social media engagement.
News・ Health Sciences
The power of protons
Penn Medicine has treated more than 10,000 cancer patients at three proton therapy centers across the region, including the largest and busiest center in the world—while also leading the way in research to expand the healing potential of these positive particles.