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Redlining and rentals
An aerial view of the Park Forest housing development outside of Chicago in the 1950s.

Aerial view of a Park Forest neighborhood in 1952 that captures the neat rows of homes that characterized the post-World War II housing boom in the planned community.

(Image: Owen Kent via the Chicago Historical Society)

Redlining and rentals

Historian Brent Cebul in the School of Arts & Sciences is working on a new digital mapping project looking at the impact of Federal Housing Administration policies on the availability of affordable rental housing post-World War II. 

Kristen de Groot

Protecting against burnout
Kandi Wiens.

Kandi Wiens is the co-director of the Penn Master’s in Medical Education program.

(Image: Robbie Quinn/Penn GSE Magazine)

Protecting against burnout

Penn GSE’s Kandi Wiens’ latest book aims to help readers build resilience to stress and heal their relationship to work.

Penn pioneers a ‘one-pot platform’ to promptly produce mRNA delivery particles
3D illustration showing cross-section of the lipid nanoparticle carrying mRNA of the virus entering a human cell.

Lipid nanoparticles present one of the most advanced drug delivery platforms to shuttle promising therapeutics such as mRNA but are limited by the time it takes to synthesize cationic lipids, a key component. Now, Michael Mitchell and his team at the School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a faster way to make cationic lipids that are also more versatile, able to carry different kinds of treatments to target specific organs.

(Image: iStock / Dr_Microbe)

Penn pioneers a ‘one-pot platform’ to promptly produce mRNA delivery particles

New lipid platform enables rapid synthesis of molecules that can shuttle therapeutics for a range of diseases with a high degree of organ specificity.
Better survival rates from hospital-based donor care for lung transplants
lungs suspended in a block of ice.

Image: iStock/AlexLMX

Better survival rates from hospital-based donor care for lung transplants

A new study by Penn researchers has examined, for the first time, the differences in lung transplant graft outcomes from organs recovered from the two types of deceased organ donor care facilities operating in the United States.

From Penn Medicine News

The anthropology of plastics in India
An image of people picking through a dump with a handful of skyscrapers along the horizon

Children inspect plastic waste in a scrapyard with skyscrapers on the horizon line.

(Image: Sidharth Chitalia)

The anthropology of plastics in India

Doctoral candidate Adwaita Banerjee uses ethnographic research to document the ecological transition of the Deonar dumping ground, where thousands of Dalits and Muslim migrants mine the area for plastic that can be resold and recycled.

Kristina García

Takeaways from the U.K. elections
Keir Starmer shakes hands with supporters holding signs that say Change and look like the UK flag.

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer with his supporters at the Tate Modern in London on July 5, 2024.

(Image: AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

  • Q&A

    • Takeaways from the U.K. elections

    Political scientist Brendan O’Leary of the School of Arts & Sciences offers his take on the Labour Party’s landslide victory and what it means going forward.

    Kristen de Groot

    The power of protons
    Two nurses guiding a prone patient into a proton imaging machine.

    (On homepage) Until recently, proton therapy has occupied a small niche within the field of radiation oncology. Penn Medicine has played a leading role in championing proton therapy and moving the field forward.

    (Image: Scott Nibauer)

    The power of protons

    Penn Medicine has treated more than 10,000 cancer patients at three proton therapy centers across the region, including the largest and busiest center in the world—while also leading the way in research to expand the healing potential of these positive particles.

    Kirsten Weir for Penn Medicine Magazine

    Social media use is associated with more frequent vaccination
    A hand liking the text “I got vaccinated!”

    Image: iStock/Anton Vierietin

    Social media use is associated with more frequent vaccination

    Researchers from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that more social media use actually correlates with more vaccination, but the reasons differ between Democrats and Republicans.

    From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

    Dual degree nursing student takes on PennCASE summer internship
    William Xi.

    William Xi.

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn Nursing News)

    Dual degree nursing student takes on PennCASE summer internship

    William Xi’s eight-week CASE Summer Internship with Penn Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania Health System involves data management, artificial intelligence, and social media engagement.

    From Penn Nursing News