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Photo: Candace diCarlo/The Pennsylvania Gazette

Image: Candace diCarlo/The Pennsylvania Gazette

Talon Bazille Ducheneaux is at home with Natives at Penn

For 25 years, Penn’s small Native American community has tried to grow its presence on campus, through powwows, Ivy League conferences, and student and faculty outreach. But trying to shed the “feeling of being invisible” has been a struggle.

Medical linear accelerator in a therapeutic oncology unit.

One simple change can reduce frequent cancer imaging by half

A “nudge” is helping shorten treatment time for patients with advanced cancer, with less frequent palliative radiation therapy sessions.

Top of the back of a wooden chair with newspaper articles and photos pasted on.

Kelly Writers House chairs are more than just a place to sit

Even the chairs at Kelly Writers House have stories to tell. The mismatched wooden seats came from the community, intentionally given to become part of Writers House everyday history.

the sun covered by the moon during an eclipse, set against a darkening dusky sky with a black flat horizon in the foreground

A two-minute totality, an opportunity of a lifetime

Graduate student David Sliski observed the July 2 eclipse at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile as a member of a scientific team tasked with imaging the sun’s corona.

Doctor in white coat with stethoscope sitting by window talking to an adolescent

Use of evidence-based therapies for youth psychiatric treatment is slow to catch on

Intensive training and practices are critical but underutilized in Philadelphia, despite city and researchers’ substantial efforts to showcase their value.

overhead view of a hand-drawn map with humans standing across the country

Penn Law’s Louis Rulli on the SCOTUS decision on census citizenship question

Penn Law’s Louis S. Rulli responds to the Supreme Court ruling on Department of Commerce v. New York, which addressed adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

Michael Posa works on CASSIE, a legged robot in a lab.

Founded on an ecosystem of innovation

Penn was built on the concept of innovation. “If it’s new, novel and holds promise to change the world,” says President Amy Gutmann, “you’ll find it at Penn.”

Julia Szymczak with a river in the background

Social solutions to antibiotic resistance

Research by sociologist Julia Szymczak of the Perelman School of Medicine is aimed at understanding, and eventually changing, behaviors that lead to the overprescribing of antibiotics.

Purple and pink illustration of a neuron synapse

Unraveling the brain’s reward circuits

Food, alcohol, and certain drugs all act to reduce the activity of hunger neurons and to release reward signals in the brain, but alcohol and drugs rely on a different pathway than does food.

A person with arms raised wearing a backpack at night faces the headlights of a vehicle on a city street.

Documentary shows discriminatory impact of state legal assistance provision

The Penn Program on Documentaries and the Law has produced a new documentary that exposes the discriminatory impact of a provision of the Pennsylvania Victims Assistance Compensation Program law that denies assistance to victims who contribute, or are suspected of contributing, to their own death or injury.

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