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West Philadelphia students cheer on Penn Women's Basketball, waving pompoms

‘Dance checks every box’ with the Quaker Girls Dance Team

The Quaker Girls Dance Team partners with the Netter Center for Community Partnerships to mentor West Philadelphia dance and cheer teams.

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Is algorithmic management too controlling?

New research from Wharton’s Lindsey Cameron looks at how gig workers are dealing with strict managers who aren’t human.

Two binders on top of a messy desk, one for salaries and one for payroll.

Report encourages equity in pay for people with disabilities

New research from Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine finds no significant negative impact of repealing a Depression-era law allowing companies to pay workers with disabilities below minimum wage.

Collaborating on agricultural climate solutions, from plants to animals

The new Penn Plant Adaptability and Resilience Center brought together faculty speakers from five schools for its Climate Solutions for the Living World symposium.

A cartoon elephant and donkey next to an American flag.

How to reduce partisan animosity

Matthew Levendusky, a professor of political science in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences, explains the results of a megastudy that explores whether anything could bridge the political gap between the left and right among Americans.

A woman in a grey dress stands in front of colorful trees. She is smiling with her arms crossed.

Patterns of Soviet Jewish emigration in the post-Stalin era

For four decades, more than one million Jews left the USSR despite the Soviet Union’s complex bureaucracy and opposition to emigration. Doctoral candidate Sasha Zborovsky explores the intricate dynamics.

Aman Husbands inspects plants in his lab

From one gene switch, many possible outcomes

A team of researchers led by Aman Husbands of the School of Arts & Sciences has uncovered surprising ways transcription factors—the genetic switches for genes—regulate plant development, revealing how subtle changes in a lipid-binding region can dramatically alter gene regulation.

(From left) Freddy Liu, Haowen Lai, and Mingmin Zhao, assistant professor in CIS, setting up a robot equipped with PanoRadar for a test run.

Giving robots superhuman vision using radio signals

Engineers have developed a new tool to transform simple radio waves into detailed, 3D views of the environment.

Penn expands financial aid for middle income families

The initiative expands Penn’s long-standing commitment to need-based financial aid, guaranteeing no-loan financial aid packages to eligible students and families since 2008.

PBS News Hour Classroom wins Civics Award to develop community college resources

The award from the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics will provide PBS News Hour Classroom with over $58,000 to create and publish 32 multimedia resources for adult learners.

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