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Dean Mark Wolff discusses the Antisemitism Task Force final report, and more

In a Q&A with Penn Today, the committee’s chair reflects on the process and outcome of a report months in the making.

Group photo at Summer Innovation Institute.

Leading on health equity through innovative design

Penn Nursing held its second Summer Innovation Institute, with a focus on collaborative design and co-creation for health equity.

Josephine Park on authoring identity

The School of Arts & Sciences President’s Distinguished Professor of English discusses the way literature has influenced the experience of being Asian American in the United States.

Cesar de la Fuente, Fangping Wan, and Marcelo der Torossian Torres.

Looking to AI to solve antibiotic resistance

Researchers across Penn have developed an artificial intelligence tool for mining genetic elements from ancient molecules to discover new antibiotics.

A medical professional and a patient in a waiting room filling out a form.

Emergency care can help patients get health insurance and unclaimed benefits for food, rent

Penn Medicine faculty and LDI fellows are working to design the kind of interventions that will connect patients with eligible care coverage.

color powder on student's face during holi festival

Our favorite photos of the year

Penn Today’s iconic photos of the 2023-24 academic year highlight the beauty, achievements, innovation, and celebration in the Penn community.

A small child getting a Band-Aid on their arm from a doctor after receiving a vaccine.

False belief in MMR vaccine-autism link endures as measles threat persists

As measles cases rise across the United States and vaccination rates for the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine continue to fall, a new survey finds that a quarter of U.S. adults do not know that claims that the MMR vaccine causes autism are false.

Four members of the track and field team compete at the NCAA Championships.

Quaker quadrumvirate earns All-American honors

Four members of the track and field team were awarded All-American honors at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.

Many hands holding smartphones and other sources of information about COVID-19.

How unflagged, factual content drives vaccine hesitancy

A new paper from computational social scientist Duncan Watts examines how factual, vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook has a greater overall effect than “fake news,” discouraging millions from the COVID-19 shot.

Penn’s Katz Center: Working to cultivate the next generation of scholars

For three decades, the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies has fostered research on Jewish studies and shares it with the world.

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