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Zoe Belodeau reaches 100-goal mark
Against La Salle at Franklin Field, the senior attacker recently became the 13th player in Penn women’s lacrosse history to score 100 goals.
News・ Education, Business, & Law
Why some retailers succeed despite big disruptions
The retail industry was already in the midst of unparalleled disruption—then came COVID-19. Wharton’s Barbara Kahn discusses the growth of “new retail” in China, how Amazon has emerged even stronger from the pandemic, and shifts from “bad” to “good” retail.
News・ Science & Technology
Four Penn faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences
The new members of the Academy, honored scholars recognized for their unique and ongoing contributions to original research, include researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine, School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Annenberg School for Communication.
News・ Health Sciences
A ‘shot’ at ending the pandemic
The Penn Cares COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic is offering one of the greatest tools in the fight against the pandemic to faculty, staff, postdocs, and students.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Students’ spring shows go virtual
COVID-19 restrictions have forced nearly all student shows to go virtual this year, and they are cropping up throughout this month and next as Facebook livestreams, Zooms, and YouTube posts.
News・ Sports
Student-athletes for an anti-racist society
Junior Jelani Williams of the men’s basketball team and senior Michae Jones of the women’s basketball team are leaders among Penn’s student-athlete community in the fight for social justice and racial equality.
News・ Health Sciences
Preventing evictions remains critical to controlling COVID-19
Renter protection policies that have curbed mass evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic have played a key role in preventing the spread of the virus in U.S. cities.
News・ Health Sciences
A new theory for what’s happening in the brain when something looks familiar
This novel concept from the lab of neuroscientist Nicole Rust brings the field one step closer to understanding how memory functions. Long-term, it could have implications for treating memory-impairing diseases like Alzheimer’s.
News・ Science & Technology
Paving the way for new light-powered devices
By combining cutting-edge concepts from theoretical physics, researchers from Penn Engineering developed “sypersymmetric microlaser arrays” that are both stable and have high power density.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Connecting students with Indigenous leaders
People of the Land, a new Penn Global seminar taught by political science Professor Tulia Falleti, enables students to learn from Indigenous community members in South America.