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A person in a doctor's office checks their fitness tracker on their wrist.

Wearables can predict near-term blood sugar control in prediabetes patients

Penn researchers find that using wearable devices, especially those on the wrist, and machine learning approaches could predict blood sugar control.

Person wearing a face mask while studying in Fischer Fine Arts Library.

Mask-wearing and moral values

Tiffany Tieu led a study on the psychology of mask-wearing and its relationship with a person’s moral values, using Penn undergraduates as the subjects.

M. Elizabeth Magill nominated to become President of the University of Pennsylvania

Magill, who currently serves as Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Virginia, will assume the Penn Presidency on July 1, 2022. She succeeds Dr. Amy Gutmann.

Torn American flag flying at Guantánamo Bay.

How to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility

On the 20th anniversary of the arrival of detainees at the U.S. prison, Penn’s Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law releases 13 recommendations on how to shutter the facility.

COVID-testing tent on campus, a person is being directed by a volunteer which station to go to.

Pre-arrival and gateway testing for the start of the spring semester

Penn Today provides details on COVID-19 testing requirements for students, postdocs, faculty, and staff who are either enrolled in courses this spring or are coming to campus regularly.

Researchers find new potential targets for skin-cancer treatment

Making up for the genetic mutations of MLL4 in skin cells, one of the most commonly mutated genes across all of human cancers, may keep epithelial cancer from beginning and progressing

Hand-drawn images of charts and graphs and waves, measuring global rise in temperatures and sea levels.

Climate change and the problem with time

Episode 7 of “In These Times” brings together an oceanographer, a geophysicist, and a historian about the challenges to understanding the Earth’s 4.6 billion year history, and how our actions in the present impact a future we can only imagine.

Penn president Amy Gutmann sits in a lounge with four students.

Penn receives pivotal gift to expand support for first-generation to college and modest-income undergraduates

The gift, from Scott and Elena Shleifer, will increase its support and critical resources for students who are in the first generation of their family to attend college and/or from households of modest or limited income.

Elderly person wearing face mask in their home at a window being cared for by an adult also wearing a face mask.

Family and friends are the invisible workforce in long-term care

Family and friends continue to provide substantial amounts of care in nursing homes, amounting to an invisible workforce, providing more than an extra “shift” of care every week in nursing homes and two “shifts” in assisted living facilities, a new study finds.

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Prosecutorial misconduct and the criminal justice system, examined

The Quattrone Center’s review of prosecutorial misconduct claims finds a lack of transparency and accountability throughout the Pennsylvania criminal justice system.

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