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Summer construction is in full swing
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Summer construction is in full swing

From Penn Medicine’s evolving Pavilion to broken ground at Tangen Hall, campus will have a different look—and feel—when students return from summer break.

Lauren Hertzler

Equifax breach and how credit agencies must change how they manage data
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After a massive data breach in 2017, the Equifax settlement with the FTC, the Consumer Protection Bureau and all 50 U.S. states calls for the firm to pay up to $700 million in damages.

Equifax breach and how credit agencies must change how they manage data

Wharton’s David Zaring analyzes the Equifax settlement, struck last week between the credit reporting firm and federal regulators over a massive data breach in 2017, and the call for stronger legislation and regulatory restraints to protect consumers.

Penn Today Staff

When you watch online porn, who is watching you?
An open laptop with many security cameras sticking out where the computer screen would normally be, indicating privacy concerns when searching online for pornographic content.

When you watch online porn, who is watching you?

A forthcoming study from the Annenberg School for Communication analyzed over 22,000 pornography websites and found that 93% of them were sending user data to at least one third party.

Penn Today Staff

Q&A with mathematician Tony Pantev
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    • Q&A with mathematician Tony Pantev

    Penn Today interviewed the math department’s incoming chair to learn about his longtime passion for geometry and his hopes for the future of contemporary math research.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    Making insights into ancient marine ecosystems with 3D-printed shells
    Scientist looks at a 3D printer in a scientific lab

    Erynn Johnson monitors the progress of the lab’s 3D printer in Hayden Hall as it produces a resin-based replica of a snail shell. Her research, which relies on mathematical modeling paired with paleontology, gives insights into how shelled marine creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago evolved to withstand the crunching jaws of predators.

    Making insights into ancient marine ecosystems with 3D-printed shells

    If you’re a snail hoping to survive an encounter with a hungry fish, it helps to have a strong shell. Paleoecology doctoral student Erynn Johnson is using 3D printing to understand how predator-prey interactions may have played out hundreds of millions of years ago.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Uncovering the roots of discrimination toward immigrants
    A group of people waiting on a platform of a train station with sunlit windows and a train on the tracks.

    Sambanis and his co-authors ran the experiment more than 1,600 times in train stations in 30 cities in both western and eastern Germany, with more than 7,000 bystanders unwittingly participating.

    Uncovering the roots of discrimination toward immigrants

    New research from political scientist Nicholas Sambanis finds that religion may matter more than ethnicity in how immigrants are treated, even if they comply with local social norms.

    Gwyneth K. Shaw

    Keeping parasites from sticking to mosquito guts could block disease transmission
    Glowing green, dozens of small ovals represent parasites in a microscopic image

    Mosquitoes infected with the parasite Crithidia fasciculata may offer a valuable model for studying other parasite diseases, according to a study led by Penn Vet’s Michael Povelones and Penn State Brandywine’s Megan Povelones. Here, a microscopic image shows the hindgut of Aedes aegypti mosquito infected with Crithidia expressing green fluorescent protein. (Image: Michael Povelones)

    Keeping parasites from sticking to mosquito guts could block disease transmission

    Researchers at the School of Veterinary Medicine show how a new model for studying the way parasites known as kinetoplastids adhere to mosquitoes’ insides could illuminate strategies for curbing diseases.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    100th puppy
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    A Labrador retriever, Casey is the 100th puppy enrolled in the Penn Vet Working Dog Center training program. 

     

    100th puppy

    An 8-week-old black Labrador retriever is the 100th puppy to enter the Penn Vet Working Dog Center research-based training program.
    Will Amazon’s plan to ‘upskill’ its employees pay off?
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    Will Amazon’s plan to ‘upskill’ its employees pay off?

    Wharton’s Matthew Bidwell discusses Amazon’s $700 million plan to retrain its workforce with “pathways to careers” in machine learning, manufacturing, robotics, and computer science, while facing mounting personnel and safety issues and concerns at its warehouses.

    Penn Today Staff