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The second lady of Ghana presented at Penn about her work on global health.

Second lady of Ghana visits Penn

The second lady of Ghana, Hajia Samira Bawumia, spoke to an energized room in Penn Nursing’s Fagin Hall about what’s needed to forge ahead on the road to progress on the African continent as a whole and in her home country.

Opening the Teach-in by breaking down barriers

The first full day of the Penn Teach-in engaged participants with expert panels on vaccine denial and firearm violence, an "evolutionary walk through time," and a dialogue on the production and dissemination of knowledge.

Vijay Balasubramanian, physics professor

Remembering Hawking: Q&A with Vijay Balasubramanian

Stephen Hawking, one of history’s most influential physicists, spent his life grappling with mysteries of the universe. Vijay Balasubramanian of the School of Arts and Sciences shared some of his memories of Hawking and discussed the impact the Briton had on scientists and nonscientists alike.

Rebecca Umbach, a fourth-year doctoral student in the department of Criminology at Penn

Short-term effects of Daylight Saving Time

Assaults decrease by 3 percent the Monday after the switch to Daylight Saving Time in the spring, according to research from Penn criminologists.

Penn fights valiantly, but felled by top-seeded Kansas

The Quakers led by 10 early in the first-round NCAA Tournament game, but the Jayhawks pulled out a 76-60 victory.

Creating atomic water filters

A vast majority of the earth’s water is salty, making it unfit for people to drink. Researchers are working on a technology that could potentially offer a new method of desalinating water that would be both fast and scalable.

Gardeners planting seeds in a greenhouse

Grave Gardeners program reconnects the Woodlands and Penn

The Woodlands Grave Gardeners program, now in its third season, pairs volunteer gardeners with the park’s cradle graves—tombstones with a bathtub-like extension—to plant them with lush flowers, as the makers had intended.

Penn takes on Philadelphia’s opioid epidemic

The University is leveraging its expertise to fight the city’s opioid crisis on multiple fronts.

Unraveling how stem cells from gum tissue accelerate wound healing

Gum tissue stem cells heal twice as fast as skin, and researchers are determining their potential in accelerated wound healing research.

The latest on preventing and treating 'strep throat' in horses

Just as strep throat can run rampant in elementary schools, strangles, the “strep throat” of horses, caused by a different Streptococcus bacterium, Streptococcus equi sp equi, is highly contagious.

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