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Inaugural Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellowships awarded
Michael Vazquez and Paul Wolff Mitchell.

Michael Vazquez (left) and Paul Wolff Mitchell. (Photo: Netter Center for Community Partnerships)

Inaugural Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellowships awarded

Michael Vazquez, a philosophy Ph.D. student, and Paul Wolff Mitchell, an anthropology Ph.D. student, are the first recipients of the award for 2019-2021.

Penn Today Staff

A sense of place on shifting shores
A colorful artist's rendering of a river with people fishing with a barge in the background and a drawing of an old map on the horizon

In works like “Memorial Day on the Delaware,” artist Roderick Coover blends natural, industrial, and historical imagery to convey a sense of place and experience. (Image: ©Roderick Coover)

A sense of place on shifting shores

Roderick Coover, whose work merges cinema, science, and history, is the 2019 Mellon Artist-in-Residence for the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH). His recent film “Toxi-City: A Climate Change Narrative” screened at PPEH’s “Teaching and Learning with Rising Waters” event.

Katherine Unger Baillie

The promise and pitfalls of 5G: Will it kill cable?
Old rusty electric transformer box with wires

The promise and pitfalls of 5G: Will it kill cable?

Wharton’s Kevin Werbach asks whether 5G technology will supercharge the “internet of things,” making it competitive with the fastest wired broadband networks.

Penn Today Staff

Daisy the goat kid’s harrowing ER visit
A mother and baby goat lay on hay in a barn.

Ivory and her doeling, Daisy. (Photo: Penn Vet News)

Daisy the goat kid’s harrowing ER visit

Post-birth complications for Daisy the newborn doeling were serious, but quickly assessed for a positive outcome at the New Bolton Center emergency room.

Penn Today Staff

Training physician-scholars to see patients as people, not categories
Two people walking on a brick path, talking, in a courtyard surrounding by green bushes and a tree.

The anthropology M.D.-Ph.D. program, run by Adriana Petryna (left) of the Anthropology Department, in concert with Lawrence Brass of the Perelman School of Medicine, combines clinical and ethnographic training with an eye toward preparing students like Utpal Sandesara (right) to tackle health inequalities. Sandesara, who will graduate this month, is one of nine students in the 10-year-old program.

Training physician-scholars to see patients as people, not categories

The anthropology M.D.-Ph.D. program, recently graduating its first two students, combines clinical and ethnographic skills aimed at working with and caring for society’s marginalized.

Michele W. Berger

How modern monarchies are evolving
Newborn on a blanket wearing a crown resting their head on their hands.

How modern monarchies are evolving

With the birth of the latest royal baby, Wharton's Mauro Guillen discusses his research on monarchies, and how the economies of countries with modern monarchies compare to those without.

Penn Today Staff

A link between mitochondrial damage and osteoporosis
Yellow pointers indicate large cells against a background of other microscopic material. Left panel has two smaller cells indicated while the right panel has three larger cells indicated.

Mitochondrial damage is linked to the bone degradation seen in osteoporosis, according to Penn Vet researchers. Macrophages, a type of immune cell, that had dysfunctional mitochondria (right) were more likely to become osteoclasts—cells that break down bone—than control macrophages (left). (Image: Courtesy of Avadhani Lab)

A link between mitochondrial damage and osteoporosis

In healthy people, a tightly controlled process balances the activity of osteoblasts, which build bone, and osteoclasts, which break it down. Damage to cells’ mitochondria can make that process go awry, meaning exposure to cigarette smoke, alcohol, environmental toxins can increase the risk of osteoporosis.

Katherine Unger Baillie