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Behind the Scenes
Penn student Nicholas Seymour in the Kelly Writers House recording studio.

Penn student Nicholas Seymour, Class of 2020, pictured in the Kelly Writers House recording studio where he has a work-study job. 

Behind the Scenes

Rising senior Nicholas Seymour is a summer intern at Philadelphia’s 1812 Productions, helping with all aspects of running a theater. The communications major has experience working on technical crews at Kelly Writers House and in student theater productions.
Making sense of what’s happening at the border
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Making sense of what’s happening at the border

Despite a recent executive order, serious questions remain regarding the 2,300 migrant children who have been separated from their families and detained in the U.S. Penn experts weigh in on many of the issues involved.

Michele W. Berger , Jill DiSanto , Lauren Hertzler

A cryptocurrency collaboration
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A cryptocurrency collaboration

A partnership with Ripple, the University Blockchain Research Initiative, will bring innovation to cryptocurrency and blockchain.

Penn Today Staff

Looking to the stars
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As part of the annual Simons Observatory Collaboration conference, Penn held a Community Astronomy Night in David Rittenhouse laboratory that included a panel, a mixer with astronomers, and stargazing. Credit: Eric Sucar 

Looking to the stars

This year's Simons Observatory Collaboration conference included a community star party that consisted of a panel, a mixer with astronomers, and stargazing.

Ali Sundermier

How researchers and clinicians navigate social media
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How researchers and clinicians navigate social media

The silence after an inaugural tweet can be ego-crushing. For medical professionals, garnering a following is a quantifiable exercise not just in personal popularity, but in the medical field itself.

Penn Today Staff

Eating healthy with Jill Joseph
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Eating healthy with Jill Joseph

Jill Joseph, the sports nutritionist at Penn Athletics, provides nutritional education and counseling to more than 900 student-athletes across Penn’s 33 teams.
Uncovering the biological basis of aesthetics
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Uncovering the biological basis of aesthetics

The new Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, led by Anjan Chatterjee, will investigate the neural activity that dictates aesthetic experiences and choices

Penn Today Staff

Orthopaedic implants for the future
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The original “Sauerbruch arm”

Orthopaedic implants for the future

The hardware that hold orthopaedic implants together must have some give in order to accommodate physiology. At the Biedermann Lab for Orthopaedic Research, specialists are studying and designing the hardwares’ minutiae to improve upon the intricacies of setting a broken bone in place.

Penn Today Staff

Sharing space to support ‘better science’
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Sharing space to support ‘better science’

Across disciplines, Penn researchers in the Computational Neuroscience Initiative put their heads together to better understand the brain.

Ali Sundermier

Kick back, relax, and enjoy the music
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Kick back, relax, and enjoy the music

For the eighth summer in a row, the Penn Museum will bring live global music—including the sounds of Creole zydeco, Latin jazz, Middle Eastern folk, and pre-revolutionary Cuba—to its outdoor garden courtyard.

Lauren Hertzler