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Podcast・ Campus & Community
A ‘holiday office party’ podcast
In the latest episode of Penn Today's “Office Hours” podcast series, and the final installment of 2019, three returning guests join for a chat about the holiday season, the decade that’s been, and the year ahead.
News・ Science & Technology
Researchers use a material’s ‘memory’ to encode unique physical properties
A new study shows that, as materials age, they “remember” prior stresses and external forces, which scientists and engineers can then use to create new materials with unique properties.
News・ Health Sciences
Engineering the immune system to tackle glioblastoma
Immunotherapy is a “game changer” for improving outcomes in treating Glioblastoma Multiforme, the most common, and most lethal, malignant brain tumor in adults.
News・ Health Sciences
A new role for a triple-negative breast cancer target
A team led by Rumela Chakrabarti of the School of Veterinary Medicine has made new discoveries into how a key protein involved in triple-negative breast cancer functions in puberty.
News・ Campus & Community
In memoriam: Penn remembers those who passed in 2019
Penn professors and faculty reflect on the giants in art, academia, and beyond who left us this year.
News・ Campus & Community
Side gigs for good, part three
The final 2019 installment in our series highlighting impactful work Penn faculty and staff do.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Impeachment, conspiracy theories, and facts
Historian Sophia Rosenfeld shares her take on the hearings leading up to President Trump’s impeachment, the wealth of conspiracy theories surrounding them, and tips on how to absorb it all without feeling dazed.
News・ Science & Technology
Drops of liquid crystal molecules branch out into strange structures
Shaped by surface tension and elasticity, spherical drops of chain-like liquid crystal molecules transform upon cooling into complex shapes with long-reaching tendrils.
News・ Sports
Prince of the Quakers
The senior defensive lineman discusses his playing days as a Quaker, becoming a smarter football player, his favorite memories, and his ultimate goal of becoming a doctor.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Individuals find polls that favor their candidates more credible
Because voters use pre-election polls to consider the choices before them and to structure their expectations about an election, a new study highlights how individuals interpret them.