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Innovative vaccine offers canine cancer patients a shot at a longer, happier life
Mason, Nicola

Nicola Mason

Innovative vaccine offers canine cancer patients a shot at a longer, happier life

Osteosarcoma is the most common bone cancer to affect dogs. It is a painful and aggressive disease. Affecting more than 10,000 dogs annually, predominantly larger breeds, it kills more than 85 percent within two years. 

Katherine Unger Baillie

Race has a place in human genetics research, philosopher argues
Quayshawn Spencer, an assistant professor in the philosophy department, studies the philosophy of science, biology, and race.

Quayshawn Spencer, an assistant professor in the philosophy department, studies the philosophy of science, biology, and race.

Race has a place in human genetics research, philosopher argues

New research out of the philosophy department argues that certain racial classifications have utility in medical genetics, particularly when considering those classifications as ancestry groups.

Michele W. Berger

Exploring the sounds of the Middle Ages
Penn Professor Mary Caldwell teaches a freshman seminar on medieval music.

In a seminar on the sounds of the Middle Ages, taught by music professor Mary Channen Caldwell (second from left), freshmen Oscar Moguel, Su Ly, and Kristen McLaughlin learned about carillon bells in a historic church on Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square.  

Exploring the sounds of the Middle Ages

In a seminar on the sounds of the Middle Ages taught by music professor Mary Channen Caldwell, freshmen learned about period music and instruments, the carillon bells in a historic church on Philly’s Rittenhouse Square.
Two faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences
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Shelley Berger and Karen Goldberg

Two faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences

Shelly Berger and Karen Goldberg are among 84 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors for a scientist.

Katherine Unger Baillie , Karen Kreeger , Ali Sundermier

Political leanings dictate feelings about surveillance of low-income populations
Joseph Turow, a researcher in the Annenberg School for Communication at Penn.

Joseph Turow, a researcher in the Annenberg School for Communication at Penn.

Political leanings dictate feelings about surveillance of low-income populations

New research led by Annenberg’s Joseph Turow reveals that political party and orientation matter when it comes to how Americans feel about everyday surveillance of low-income populations.

Michele W. Berger