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Quakers push past Patriots
The women’s soccer team defeated George Mason 2-1 on Sunday, giving Casey Brown her first win as head coach.
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In-person requirements decreased WIC participation during the pandemic
Prior to the pandemic, only about half of all eligible families received WIC benefits. In a recent study in JAMA, Penn Medicine researchers examined one way in which these burdens may have worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Restoring ‘chaperone’ protein may prevent plaque buildup in Alzheimer’s
Penn Medicine researchers show how restoring levels of the protein DAXX and a large group of similar proteins prevents the misfolding of the rogue proteins known to drive Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
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Penn baseball players excel in summer leagues
Twenty-four players competed on 15 different teams over the summer, in 10 different states, with a number of players reaching their league’s all-star games.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Harun Küçük brings science, philosophy, and history to the Middle East Center
The newly appointed faculty director says his aim “first and foremost is to maintain all the good things that the Center’s already doing.”
News・ Campus & Community
A ‘surreal’ experience as students move into New College House West
One-hundred and forty-three members of the first residents to live in New College House moved in on Friday, Aug. 27, marking the second phase of Move-In and the opening of a new facility on campus.
News・ Science & Technology
Xunjing Wu on a mid-career switch to computer science
Penn’s Online Master of Computer and Information Technology degree allows professionals like Wu the opportunity to switch careers without restarting their education from the beginning.
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Penn mRNA researchers Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó awarded the 2021 Albany Prize
For their landmark research that set a foundation for the mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó have been selected to receive the prize after decades of work.
News・ Science & Technology
Interact, adapt, repeat
Sophomores Linda Wu and Nova Meng spent the summer studying coevolution among plants, mutualistic bacteria, and parasitic nematodes in Corlett Wood’s biology lab.
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TikTok talk
Largely characterized as a Gen Z phenomenon, TikTok is a video-sharing app with more than 100 million active users in the U.S. alone—and it’s changing the way that we speak, says sociolinguist Nicole Holliday.