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Mentorship an ‘essential ingredient’ for nursing Ph.D. students
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Mentorship an ‘essential ingredient’ for nursing Ph.D. students

A new School of Nursing initiative places doctoral students into small peer-mentorship groups. The researchers who implemented this found it offers an important supplement to one-on-one peer support and faculty advising.

Michele W. Berger

Four things to know about the latest IPCC climate report
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Four things to know about the latest IPCC climate report

The assessment describes ‘unequivocal’ human influence that no doubt caused ‘widespread and rapid changes’ to the atmosphere, oceans, and more. Professors Mark Alan Hughes and Michael Weisberg discuss the findings, plus how we can avoid passing the point of no return.

Michele W. Berger

Packaging-free design quadruples microbatteries’ energy density
Dandelion head for scale with a tiny microbattery resting on top of it.

Weighing about as much as two grains of rice but with the energy density of a much larger, heavier battery, the researchers’ packing-free design could enable a host of otherwise impossible electronics. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

Packaging-free design quadruples microbatteries’ energy density

New research from the School of Engineering and Applied Science shows a new way to build and package microbatteries that maximizes energy density even at the smallest sizes.

Evan Lerner

Older adults’ access to primary care during the pandemic
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Older adults’ access to primary care during the pandemic

Older patients who accessed primary care via telemedicine had lower hospitalization rates, but racial disparities in outcomes of in-person primary care persist, with Black older adults more likely to be hospitalized after a telemedicine visit.

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African American in the ‘raceless’ Soviet Union
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African American in the ‘raceless’ Soviet Union

History Ph.D. candidate Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon’s work looks at how the African American experience in the Soviet Union shaped Black identity and how the presence of people of color shaped Soviet understandings of race.

Kristen de Groot

A how-to guide for Gateway testing
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As students return to campus this fall, Penn Cares will be conducting Gateway testing at the high-rise tent at Du Bois (pictured during December 2020) for all enrolled undergraduate and graduate students.

A how-to guide for Gateway testing

Penn Today provides details on the Penn Cares testing program and how undergraduate and graduate students can fulfill their Gateway testing requirements.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Zachary Lesser’s Shakespearean forensics
Zachary Lesser headshot (left), and book cover for “Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Durée” at right.

Zachary Lesser’s Shakespearean forensics

The Edward W. Kane Professor of English uses ghosts, holes, and scrapes to learn more about how Shakespeare’s work was seen in his own time.

Susan Ahlborn