Digital collections specialists at Penn helped digitize scrapbooks to showcase the life of Pearl Bailey, a Tony Award winner and variety show host.
Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine says that with more human infections by bird flu comes more chance of human-to-human transmission.
Arnold Mathijssen of the School of Arts & Sciences and colleagues have created a pour-over coffee technique using a goose-neck kettle and a high pour to achieve an “avalanche” in the ground coffee.
Kami McManus of the Perelman School of Medicine says that giving brains a calming or neutral distraction before sleep can be more helpful than allowing them to find a random thought on their own.
A study by Ben Sprung-Keyser of the Wharton School and colleagues found that taxpayers who were randomly audited and owed additional money went on to pay more in future tax returns compared with those who were not randomly audited.
“After Modernism,” currently on view at the Arthur Ross Gallery, presents 56 works from the private collection of alumnus Hubert Neumann and his family’s trove of artwork.
Judith Schaechter recounts her experience working on a stained-glass project as artist-in-residence at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, helmed by Anjan Chatterjee of the Perelman School of Medicine.
Annie Wilson of the Wharton School says that Crocs’ biggest shift in messaging was to embrace the criticism surrounding the unique appearance of their product.
Yvette Sheline of the Perelman School of Medicine writes about the historical evolution of mental health treatment, from asylum to state hospital to deinstitutionalization.