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Now serving: A new and improved Houston Market
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Now serving: A new and improved Houston Market

A summer’s worth of renovations have brought revamped restaurants, a more comfortable and convenient atmosphere, and extended hours to Houston Market.

Lauren Hertzler

New insights into malaria culprit
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New insights into malaria culprit

New insights from the Perelman School of Medicine on the origins of deadly infectious diseases are vital to understanding the emergence of human pathogens, and may even lead to eradicating malaria.

Penn Today Staff

A promising candidate for a universal flu vaccine
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A promising candidate for a universal flu vaccine

A flu vaccine that targets a deeper level of the virus itself may be the key to a universal flu vaccine that is more effective at protecting humans from any strain of flu each season.

Penn Today Staff

From addiction and loss to recovery and empathy: Q&A with Nicole O’Donnell
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From addiction and loss to recovery and empathy: Q&A with Nicole O’Donnell

At Penn Medicine’s Center of Excellence, the certified recovery specialist reaches out to people who are addicted in need of support and guidance, drawing on her own experience to be uniquely helpful and intuitive for people who need the most help.

Penn Today Staff

Preserving Philadelphia’s Society Hill
Penn School of Design professor Francesca Ammon

Francesca Russello Ammon, a PennDesign assistant professor of city and regional planning, focused on Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood for her research on historic preservation. (Photo by Eric Sucar, University of Pennsylvania Communications)

Preserving Philadelphia’s Society Hill

The histories of more than 1,500 properties in a storied Philadelphia neighborhood are now accessible on the new website, “Preserving Society Hill.” Working with digital-humanities specialists in the Price Lab and the Libraries, PennDesign’s Francesca Ammon created an interactive map to document this innovative case study in urban renewal.
New Parkinson’s disease biomarker guidelines invigorates drive for treatments
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Alice Chen-Plotkin, the Parker Family Associate Professor of Neurology in the Perelman School of Medicine

New Parkinson’s disease biomarker guidelines invigorates drive for treatments

Identifying biomarkers of Parkinson's disease, such as proteins found in blood, is key to discovering treatment for the disease. New guidelines, published in Science and Translational Medicine journal, are the result of a collaboration between researchers with unique expertise outside of academia.

Penn Today Staff

Study finds most teens avoid rash, impulsive behavior
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Study finds most teens avoid rash, impulsive behavior

A new study found that the majority of teenagers avoid the kind of impulsive behavior commonly associated with “typical teenagers,” citing that imbalance models in brain development is evident in only a subset of teens.

Penn Today Staff

Penn welcomes the Class of 2022
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Penn welcomes the Class of 2022

Hailing from 49 states (all but Wyoming), Puerto Rico, and 88 countries around the world, the 2,552 members of the Class of 2022 moved in to Penn on Aug. 22.