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News・ Education, Business, & Law
Why older Americans are taking on more debt
Older Americans are accumulating more debt as they near retirement, according to research from the Wharton School that reveals a troubling trend in personal finance among people in their 50s and early 60s.
News・ Health Sciences
A legacy of equine veterinary care
For more than two decades, the Csaba Vedlik Equine Scholarship has offered veterinary students an immersive summer experience.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
‘A Revolution in Rhyme’
While building the Persian language and studies program at Penn, Fatemeh Shams draws from the millennium-old Persian literary tradition to write a new book about poetry and politics in modern Iran. She will embark on her next book project during an upcoming fellowship in Berlin.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Untapped insights, network dynamics, and a unique approach to NBA scouting
A new book from Annenberg’s Damon Centola describes why some ideas succeed while others fail and uses case studies to illustrate the science behind what drives change.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
How the pandemic has—and hasn’t—changed the Oscars
Ahead of the 2021 Academy Awards, to be held on Sunday, April 25, Penn film scholars discuss the highlights of this year’s contest and how the notoriously competitive Oscars campaigns have adapted to the pandemic.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Two Yenching Scholars for Penn
Senior Patrick Beyrer and 2020 graduate Brook Jiang have been selected as 2021 Yenching Scholars, awarded full funding to pursue an interdisciplinary master’s degree in China studies at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing.
News・ Health Sciences
Immunotherapy alone extended life for certain metastatic lung cancer patients
Penn Medicine researchers show that patients harboring a KRAS gene mutation with high levels of PDL-1 lived longer when treated with immunotherapy alone, compared to patients without this mutation.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Six from Penn elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Faculty from the School of Arts & Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Perelman School of Medicine are honored for their efforts to help solve some of the world’s most urgent challenges.
News・ Campus & Community
The stories trees tell
In a photo essay, Penn Today highlights some of campus’s most iconic trees.
News・ Health Sciences
How humans evolved a super-high cooling capacity
The higher density of sweat glands in humans is due, to a great extent, to accumulated changes in a regulatory region of DNA that drives the expression of a sweat gland-building gene, explaining why humans are the sweatiest of the Great Apes.