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Student-athletes for an anti-racist society
Junior Jelani Williams of the men’s basketball team and senior Michae Jones of the women’s basketball team are leaders among Penn’s student-athlete community in the fight for social justice and racial equality.
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Preventing evictions remains critical to controlling COVID-19
Renter protection policies that have curbed mass evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic have played a key role in preventing the spread of the virus in U.S. cities.
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A new theory for what’s happening in the brain when something looks familiar
This novel concept from the lab of neuroscientist Nicole Rust brings the field one step closer to understanding how memory functions. Long-term, it could have implications for treating memory-impairing diseases like Alzheimer’s.
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Paving the way for new light-powered devices
By combining cutting-edge concepts from theoretical physics, researchers from Penn Engineering developed “sypersymmetric microlaser arrays” that are both stable and have high power density.
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Connecting students with Indigenous leaders
People of the Land, a new Penn Global seminar taught by political science Professor Tulia Falleti, enables students to learn from Indigenous community members in South America.
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Quakers shine in Philly Mets meet
At the Philadelphia Metropolitan Collegiate Invitational on Saturday at Franklin Field, Penn’s track and field teams were victorious in more than a dozen events.
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Why young, pregnant women develop heart failure similar to older patients
Researchers at Penn Medicine uncover more genetic mutations that predispose women to peripartum cardiomyopathy, with implications for the future of increased genetic testing.
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Yuri Stone on curating the MFA thesis exhibitions
While the Weitzman School’s thesis exhibitions for the Classes of 2020 and 2021 will be on view in person, curating the two projects happened entirely online.
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Looking towards the future through an interdisciplinary lens
Senior Yasmina Al Ghadban was able to connect her undergraduate education in bioengineering and psychology with her passion for public health through teaching, research, and extracurricular activities.
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Why older Americans are taking on more debt
Older Americans are accumulating more debt as they near retirement, according to research from the Wharton School that reveals a troubling trend in personal finance among people in their 50s and early 60s.