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Lipids model how to explore for unexpected diseases
Lipid panel with check marks with a stethoscope resting on top of the file.

Lipids model how to explore for unexpected diseases

Lipids are known heritable risk factors for cardiovascular disease, but increasing evidence also supports shared genetics with diseases of other organ systems.

From Penn Medicine News

Amani Carter develops a new study on unmasking coded bias
Partially obscured head of Blind Justice statue against a backdrop of algorithmic code.

Amani Carter develops a new study on unmasking coded bias

The Class of 2022 law student works to identify biases and ‘stereotype threat’ in AI and help provide context for the conversation around mitigating those biases.

From Penn Carey Law

U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, explained
US soldiers holding guns are running behind a tank with an American flag on top in sand in Syria

The 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team on the ground in Syria. (Image: The National Guard)

  • Q&A

    • U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, explained

    Sara Plana, a 2021-22 Postdoctoral Fellow at Perry World House, shares her thoughts on the airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed militias and the bigger picture of what’s happening in the region.

    Kristen de Groot

    How to bring your conscience to work
    Employee talking seriously with their employer.

    How to bring your conscience to work

    Wharton’s G. Richard Shell talks about how employees and managers can stand up for their values and create a more ethical workplace.

    From Knowledge at Wharton

    What to expect as Penn transitions to a fully in-person fall semester
    two people wearing masks walk down penn commons

    As Penn looks forward to a fully in-person campus experience for the fall semester, this summer will be a period of transition as faculty, staff, postdocs, and students navigate evolving public health measures while returning to campus in a way that helps keep the community safe.

    What to expect as Penn transitions to a fully in-person fall semester

    Penn Today looks at guidelines for those on campus this summer, what members of the community can expect as they return to campus, and the role that vaccines have in safely resuming in-person activities.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    The pandemic, health inequities, and an ‘opportunity for change’
    covid global map

    As a global pandemic, COVID-19 spread across the world. But it didn’t hit everyone equally. “Being healthy is essential to human flourishing,” says Jennifer Prah Ruger, who advocates for shared norms in health governance to address global inequalities. (Image: Martin Sanchez, also featured on homepage)

    The pandemic, health inequities, and an ‘opportunity for change’

    Experts across the University weigh in on which lessons the pandemic drove home and what immediate measures are needed to prevent future loss.
    Global Policy Forum focuses on ‘People, Planet, and Prosperity’
    A man in a suit and tie and glasses sits in profile in a white chair as he looks at three video screens in front of him: one showing an illustration of a light buld and the words global policy forum, the middle screen showing a man with glasses in front of a book case and the last screen on the right showing another man with glasses, grey hair and a beard

    The virtual Global Policy Forum featured leaders and thinkers from across the globe, including co-hosts Paolo Magri (in chair, left), Penn’s Jim McGann (center screen) and former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (right screen).

    Global Policy Forum focuses on ‘People, Planet, and Prosperity’

    Penn’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, headed by Jim McGann, co-hosted the event that shared insights and proposals on the priorities of the G20 ahead of the group’s fall meeting 

    Kristen de Groot

    Leniqueca Welcome uses photography to explore the human experience
    Three dancers doing back bands with one leg raised on a sunlit beach.

    “The ways their bodies come together to make a continuous form against the backdrop of the water is simply poetic to me,” says Welcome. (Image: Leniqueca Welcome/OMNIA)

    Leniqueca Welcome uses photography to explore the human experience

    Welcome, a doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology with specialties in urban studies and experimental ethnography, is a member of the Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA).

    Blake Cole