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A ‘holding pattern’ for MFA grads culminates in New York exhibit
A styrofoam cup with liquid being dripped in from a distilling device

Artist Fields Harrington, a recent MFA graduate, created this installation piece inspired by Norbert Rilleux’s multi-effect evaporator. (Photo: Fields Harrington)

A ‘holding pattern’ for MFA grads culminates in New York exhibit

Working together, 11 recent graduates of the Master of Fine Arts program will display their work through a new exhibit in Brooklyn.
A deep dive into digital humanities at Penn
A group of people sitting around a rectangular wooden table on the bottom floor of a two-story room in a library adorned with books and busts.

Dot Porter’s Digital Surrogates course, seen here in Lea Library, was one of nine offered during the DReAM Lab. Topics ranged from text analysis to digital humanities in the classroom. (Photo: Sarah Milinski)

A deep dive into digital humanities at Penn

The weeklong DReAM Lab, put on by the Price Lab for Digital Humanities and the Penn Libraries, offered participants the chance to study a range of subjects, from text analysis to augmented reality and Afrofuturism.

Michele W. Berger

When a fix for one vision problem causes another
A person sitting in front of a computer and a machine that tests vision.

The lab of neuroscientist Johannes Burge (above) focuses on how the human visual system processes the images that fall on the back of the eye. This line of work, closely related to a 100-year-old illusion called the Pulfrich effect, could have serious public safety and public health implications.

When a fix for one vision problem causes another

Aging diminishes the ability of the eyes to focus up close. New Penn research reports that monovision, a common prescription lens correction to mitigate this issue, can cause dramatic misperceptions of depth and 3D direction for objects in motion.

Michele W. Berger

Uncovering bias: A new way to study hiring can help
cartoon of two hands holding two resumés, one with a small bio photo of a white person and one with a small bio photo of a black or brown person

Uncovering bias: A new way to study hiring can help

Research has shown how easy it is for an employer’s conscious and unconscious biases to creep in when reviewing resumés, creating an uneven playing field that disproportionally hurts women and minority job candidates.

Penn Today Staff

Iron Man: The engineer who became a superhero
Film still of Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man character standing at a work table full of tools trying on a robotic-looking arm.
  • Q&A

    • Iron Man: The engineer who became a superhero

    A Q&A with Marc Miskin and James Pikul about the real-world tech and practical limitations that underly Tony Stark’s superpowered suit.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    Brain matter altered in U.S. personnel who developed neurological symptoms in Cuba
    20 brain scans showing regions affected by neurological damage.

    The colored regions in these images show differences on the group level—or averages—widespread throughout the brain, and particularly in the cerebellum, which is responsible for balance, coordination, and speech. (Image: JAMA Network)

    Brain matter altered in U.S. personnel who developed neurological symptoms in Cuba

    Images reveal key brain differences, particularly in the cerebellum, between impacted patients and healthy individuals, which may underlie clinical findings previously reported by the Penn team.

    Penn Today Staff

    ‘Smart aviary’ poised to break new ground in behavioral research
    outside the smart aviary

    ‘Smart aviary’ poised to break new ground in behavioral research

    A collaboration that has brought together biologists, engineers, and physicists to study the reproductive behavior of birds using machine learning in a custom-built aviary at Pennovation Works.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    A new cancer drug, thanks to a new approach
    A rendering of a plasma cell lymphocyte.

    A new cancer drug, thanks to a new approach

    Researchers in the Abramson Cancer Center helped bring new hope to patients with multiple myeloma with a drug that targets the command center of a cancer cell.

    Penn Today Staff