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What to read, watch, and cook for Juneteenth

An Emancipation Day parade in St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1922.

(Image: State Archives of Florida)

What to read, watch, and cook for Juneteenth

Specialists from Penn Libraries offer seven resources to learn more about and celebrate Juneteenth.

3 min. read

Decoding ancient immunity networks
Hand holding a blood vial that reads "complement (C3 + C4)"

A collaborative team from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Perelman School of Medicine have unraveled the mathematics of a 500-million-year-old protein network that acts like the body’s bouncer, “deciding” which foreign materials get degraded by immune cells and which are allowed entry.

(Image / iStock Md Saiful Islam Khan)

Decoding ancient immunity networks

A collaborative team from Penn Medicine and Penn Engineering have  unraveled the mathematics of a 500-million-year-old protein network that “decides” which foreign materials are friend or foe.

Nathi Magubane , Ian Scheffler , Holly Wojcik , Matt Toal

5 min. read

Weitzman team selected for Special Recognition in the Los Angeles Small Lots, Big Impacts Design Competition

Weitzman team selected for Special Recognition in the Los Angeles Small Lots, Big Impacts Design Competition

FORMA (led by associate professor of practice Daniel Markiewicz and Miroslava Brooks) and Studio Zimm (led by Weitzman alum Michael Zimmerman) teamed up to design a project for the Los Angeles Small Lots, Big Impacts design competition, and received Special Recognition for their work on both sites within the Gentle Density category.

CERL welcomes 2025 internship class

CERL welcomes 2025 internship class

Over the course of nine weeks, The Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law’s 20-person internship cohort will explore projects relating to military aid to civilian authorities, a comparison of prosecution to deportation for effective counter-terrorism operations, character, military firings, and criteria for assessing military appointees, presidential authority and state(s) of emergency, and other areas of research.

‘Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders—and How We Can Change That’
Cover of Elusive Cures book next to headshot of Nicole Rust.

Tackling brain conditions, says psychology professor Nicole Rust, requires thinking about the brain not as a domino chain but as a complex dynamical system with feedback loops.

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    • ‘Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders—and How We Can Change That’

    The first book from psychology professor Nicole Rust of the School of Arts & Sciences dives into why research on conditions like Alzheimer’s and depression hasn’t translated more effectively into better treatments.

    5 min. read

    Who, What, Why: Xiao Schutte Ke on Tibetan pastoralists and citizen science
    Xiao Schutte Ke.

    Image: Courtesy of Xiao Schutte Ke

    Who, What, Why: Xiao Schutte Ke on Tibetan pastoralists and citizen science

    Schutte Ke, a sixth-year linguistic anthropology doctoral candidate in the School of Arts & Sciences, explains the importance of Indigenous citizen scientists in understanding a crucial ecosystem of nomadic livestock herders on the mountainous region of the Tibetan Plateau.

    3 min. read

    Kam earns First Team All-American Honors at NCAA Outdoor Championships
    Kampton Kam at a track and field meet.

    Kampton Kam secured an eighth place finish in high jump.

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    Kam earns First Team All-American Honors at NCAA Outdoor Championships

    At the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on June 13, Kampton Kam secured an eighth place finish in high jump.

    From Penn Athletics

    1 min. read

    New chair of Orthopaedics starts a new chapter in a lifetime of service
    Benjamin Potter holding a piece of prosthetic hardware.

    Benjamin “Kyle” Potter demonstrates how the OPRA implant (Integrum LLC), which is FDA-approved for osseointegration following transfemoral amputation, fits into the AXOR II failsafe device, directly linking a patient's residual bone to an external prosthesis.

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    New chair of Orthopaedics starts a new chapter in a lifetime of service

    Following a distinguished military career, Benjamin ‘Kyle’ Potter is bringing his battle-tested expertise to Penn.

    From Penn Medicine News

    2 min. read

    What can ants and naked-mole rats teach about societal roles?
    Leafcutter ants moving around a bright green leaf.

    In eusocial superorganisms like leafcutter ant colonies, labor is divvied up according to body shape and size, but PIK Professor Shelley Berger and her team discovered that molecular signals can override that blueprint. Their findings reveal how simple neuropeptides can reprogram ant behavior, reshuffling roles in nature’s most disciplined workforce.

    (Image: Courtesy of Tierney Scarpa)

    What can ants and naked-mole rats teach about societal roles?

    PIK Professor Shelley Berger and colleagues explored the genetic basis of labor distribution in communal-dwelling species and discovered that pathways dating back hundreds of millions of years are conserved across animal kingdoms. Their findings offer fundamental insights into complex social behaviors.

    5 min. read