News Archive

The new faculty member at the Annenberg School for Communication has researched the underrepresentation of women in the media's coverage of the gig economy, and the reliance on technology, specifically the cell phone, on gig workers and the working class, arguing that it acts as a lifeline for finding jobs when internet access is lacking.

A new report from Penn GSE’s Center for Minority Serving Institutions examines how presidents of Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) are using social media to interact with students, and what lessons leaders at all colleges could learn from them.

The state of Pennsylvania increased access to hepatitis C drugs for Medicaid patients regardless of their liver health or drug and alcohol use. Penn's Stacey Trooskin, who also serves as the director of Viral Hepatitis Programs at Philadelphia FIGHT, discusses increasing access to treatment even further.

In her new book, English professor Emily Steinlight focuses on overpopulation as a central theme of 19th-century British novels.

A new drug-delivery technology which uses red blood cells to shuttle nano-scale drug carriers, called RBC-hitchhiking, has been found to dramatically increase the concentration of drugs ferried precisely to selected organs.

Leveraging the University’s expertise with technology and rare centuries-old manuscripts, Penn Libraries is digitizing and cataloging medieval and early modern texts from 15 Philadelphia-area institutions. The three-year project is known as BiblioPhilly.

A recent study found that nanoparticles can break down dental plaque with nanoparticles that target biofilms, preventing tooth decay in humans and animal models without damaging surrounding oral tissue.

From Saturday, Aug. 4, through Sunday, Aug. 19, there will be no Regional Rail service to University City Station for the Airport, Media/Elwyn, or Wilmington/Newark Regional Rail lines.

Research finds that traditional news accounts and Twitter messages had different associations with risk perceptions and behavior during the 2016 U.S. Zika virus outbreak.

Rising senior Madison Dawkins created an independent study focused on health and mindfulness with the women at the Riverside Correctional Facility.