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Treatment doctor tested on himself can put others into remission

Treatment doctor tested on himself can put others into remission

Five years ago, David C. Fajgenbaum both a Penn Medicine researcher and patient, tried an experimental treatment for Castleman disease based on his laboratory research findings in the hopes of saving his own life. He has been in remission ever since.

Penn Today Staff

Solving complex problems with purpose
angelica padilla working in a lab on a crowded optics table looking at a computer

Solving complex problems with purpose

Senior Angelica Padilla, who recently completed research through the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter undergraduate summer program, shares her passion for fluid mechanics.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Woodstock at 50
Three people sitting on high stools on a stage surrounded by windows, two playing guitars and one speaking or singing into a microphone.

Author Anthony DeCurtis (center) teaches writing at Penn and holds conversations with and about musicians at the Kelly Writers House. 

Woodstock at 50

During three days of Woodstock in August of 1969, Anthony DeCurtis of the School of Arts and Sciences was 18, growing up in New York City and obsessed with the music that would form the foundation of his writing and teaching.
Easing the transition from summer to school
A young child with a backpack walks outside with three other students on their first day back at school.

Easing the transition from summer to school

Penn GSE’s Linda Leibowitz has a few suggestions for parents and caregivers who are keen to smooth their kids’ transition from summer back to school.

Penn Today Staff

A society’s cultural practices shape the structure of its social networks
Parent teaching child how to mow grass

People learn either by observing those around them or by innovating. A new study from Penn biologists Marco Smolla and Erol Akçay demonstrates how cultures can evolve based on what kind of learning and skills are required to thrive within them.

A society’s cultural practices shape the structure of its social networks

Biologists Erol Akçay and Marco Smolla used mathematical models to show that societies that favor generalists, who have a wide range of skills, are less well-connected than those societies that favor specialists, who are highly skilled at a smaller number of traits.

Katherine Unger Baillie