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Six Penn researchers receive honors from American Physical Society
Three chemistry professors win 2018 APS awards and three faculty in Penn Engineering are elected APS Fellows.

Top row left to right: School of Arts and Sciences’ Zahra Fakhraai, Marsha I. Lester, and Abraham Nitzan. Bottom row left to right John Crocker, Chinedum Osuji, and Shu Yang of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. 

Six Penn researchers receive honors from American Physical Society

Three Penn researchers have been awarded prizes by the American Physical Society (APS), and three others were elected to its 2018 APS Fellowship class.
What will it take to prevent the next wildfire disaster?
firefighters in remaining archway of a destroyed building with side of firetruck in foreground

What will it take to prevent the next wildfire disaster?

Wharton’s Howard Kunreuther, co-director of the school’s Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, discusses what California can do to protect itself from future wildfires.

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Keeping campus trees—all 6,800 of them—healthy and vibrant
Looking down on campus through a variety of colorful treetops, people walk by holding umbrellas

The changing foliage of Penn’s trees make even a gray and rainy day look bright. Campus staff take a proactive approach to maintaining the trees’ health.

Keeping campus trees—all 6,800 of them—healthy and vibrant

Caring for the trees on Penn’s campus—an official arboretum since last year—is no small undertaking. Staff from Facilities and Real Estate Services and the Morris Arboretum lead the way in ensuring that the University’s trees remain safe, vibrant, diverse, and beautiful.

Katherine Unger Baillie

All hands on deck: Fentanyl in Philadelphia
gurney in an emergency room

All hands on deck: Fentanyl in Philadelphia

In 2017, fentanyl surpassed heroin as the leading drug involved in overdose deaths, increasing from 57 percent of opioid-related deaths in 2016 to 84 percent in 2017.

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Social scientists trade academic silos for shared work space
Coren Apicella and Corey Cusimano standing to the side as Geoff Goodwin speaks at a podium.

Penn psychologists Coren Apicella and Geoffrey Goodwin (at podium) co-direct the new Social and Behavioral Sciences Initiative, part of mindCORE. Corey Cusimano (center), a grad student in Goodwin’s lab, will also participate. Cusimano studies the ways in which people hold others responsible for their attitudes. (Photo: Yevgeniy Olkhov)

Social scientists trade academic silos for shared work space

Faculty and grad students in the new Social and Behavioral Sciences Initiative have access to two state-of-the-art labs, grants, and a collaborative environment aimed at creating a vibrant research community.

Michele W. Berger

Celebrating 30 years with Stimulus Children’s Theatre
Scene from Prince and the Wooglefoof

The Prince and the Wooglefoof (Photo: ImageFlo/Prestige Portraits)

Celebrating 30 years with Stimulus Children’s Theatre

The campus theater group focused on entertaining children marked its 30th anniversary with performances during Homecoming Weekend, along with an alumni gala at the Platt Student Performing Arts House.
The Power of Penn in London
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Penn President Amy Gutmann (left) was joined by (from left to right) faculty members Henry Daniell, Kathleen Morrison, and Anjan Chatterjee at the Nov. 15 Power of Penn event in London. 

The Power of Penn in London

In London, President Amy Gutmann presented the vision for the University’s $4.1 billion campaign, The Power of Penn.

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Marching toward the market
Visiplate team members

Marching toward the market

Rui Jing Jiang and Brandon Kao, winners of the 2018 President’s Innovation Prize, are well on their way to their goal: to gain FDA approval for a device to treat glaucoma.

Katherine Unger Baillie