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Exploring Shakespearian times in London
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Exploring Shakespearian times in London

During an intensive interdisciplinary five-week course this summer, undergraduate students traveled to the heart of Elizabethan theater to gain an in-depth appreciation for the works of William Shakespeare where it all began.
What happens to the brain after a traumatic injury?
TBI Football Research Senior Justin Morrison (left) and researcher Michael Sangobowale with Ebony Cook, a patient in for a follow-up visit after her apartment ceiling caved in on her. It’s part of an ongoing clinical trial on traumatic brain injury that sees patients five times each, at 72 hours following injury, then again at two weeks, three weeks, six months, and a year later.

What happens to the brain after a traumatic injury?

Two undergrads interning with Penn Medicine’s Ramon Diaz-Arrastia spent the summer looking for biomarkers in the blood of TBI patients, and studying whether the generic form of Viagra might help promote recovery after such an injury.

Michele W. Berger

Ventilating with mixture of helium and oxygen improves outcomes for horses in surgery
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The new research shows the benefits of ventilating horses undergoing surgery with a mixture of helium and oxygen. (Image: Courtesy of Klaus Hopster)

Ventilating with mixture of helium and oxygen improves outcomes for horses in surgery

Horses are so large that their weight can cause their lungs to collapse while under anesthesia. In a new study, Klaus Hopster and colleagues at the School of Veterinary Medicine found that ventilating horses with a mixture of helium and oxygen can lead to better pulmonary gas exchange.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Invisible partners: Recovering relationships in early anthropological research
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Margaret Bruchac, an assistant professor of anthropology at Penn, at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, NM. (Photo credit: Jason Ordaz, with permission from SAR.)

Invisible partners: Recovering relationships in early anthropological research

Margaret Bruchac, an assistant professor of anthropology, examines the social relationships between early 20th-century anthropological collectors and Indigenous collaborators.

Penn Today Staff

Annenberg brings premiere performances to Philadelphia in new season
Circa Circa dancers perform as part of “Human,” the first show of the 2018-19 Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts series.

Annenberg brings premiere performances to Philadelphia in new season

The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts kicks off its 2018-19 season with contemporary new work and artists, focusing on themes of the human experience, migration and history.
Campus fire safety: What you need to know
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Firefighters from the Philadelphia Fire Department stand by during the live side-by-side dorm “burn” on Hamilton Field. All of Penn’s on-campus residences feature sprinkler systems. Photo by Stacy Ritchey, Division of Public Safety 

 

 

Campus fire safety: What you need to know

As part of its annual Life-Saving Measures event, the Division of Public Safety hosted a live side-by-side controlled “burn” of a dorm room model on Hamilton Field to show how “Sprinklers Save Lives.”