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Historic map highlighting redlining in Philadelphia. (Image: Courtesy of Mapping Inequality)

mRNA scientists Drew Weissman, the Roberts Family Professor of Vaccine Research in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, and Katalin Karikó, an adjunct professor of neurosurgery at Penn and a senior vice president at BioNTech. (Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine)

Wharton professor and author of “The Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We All Face,” unveils the tradeoffs employers and employees may have to accept in his new book. (Image: Wharton School Press)

A Penn study has looked at the communicative needs that drive similarities and differences in how languages develop vocabularies for color. 

The Center for Precision Engineering for Health will bring together researchers spanning multiple scientific fields to develop novel therapeutic biomaterials, such as a drug-delivering nanoparticles that can be designed to adhere to only to the tissues they target. (Image: Courtesy of the Mitchell Lab)

Multicolor image of a colon from a patient with ulcerative colitis stained by imaging mass cytometry. (Image: Courtesy of Ayano Kondo from the Kaestner Lab)

The mid-autumn festival often serves as a family reunion, with the moon’s perfect circle symbolizing completion and unity. 

A new Penn Museum exhibition puts a spotlight on fashion,  featuring 250 items spanning 2,500 years, including clothing, jewelry, uniforms, weapons, even tattoos. “The Stories We Wear” will be on view through June 12.