Former Quakers guard Fran McCaffery is profiled as the new men’s basketball coach for Penn.

Carlo Siracusa of the School of Veterinary Medicine says that it’s scientifically important to prove even common-sense facts like a cat’s ability to recognize its owner’s scent.

Bruce A. Brod of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the properties of chemical sunscreens can absorb different wavelengths of ultraviolet light and prevent them from damaging the skin.

Cornelia C. Walther of the Wharton School explains how AI chatbots manipulate the brain’s preference for information that feels familiar and effortless to process.

Joel Gelfand of the Perelman School of Medicine says that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs like Ozempic or Zepbound could be a means of protecting against psoriasis.

Cary Coglianese of Penn Carey Law says that a recent ruling limiting the EEOC’s abortion rulemaking power is emblematic of the new world after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Witold Henisz of the Wharton School says that ignoring carbon emissions would incur costs bigger than the great financial crisis housing crisis, and dot-com crisis.”

According to a collaborative paper by Hanming Fang of the School of Arts & Sciences, more than a fifth of Chinese policy documents feature some kind of industrial policy.

Tom Baker of Penn Carey Law says that it will be challenging for plaintiffs in a California home insurance case to show that they somehow acted in a more extreme manner than was supported by their actuarial data.

In an opinion essay, Connie M. Ulrich, Mary Naylor, and Martha A.Q. Curley of the School of Nursing explain how appointing a nurse as the U.S. surgeon general would address challenges of health promotion and disease prevention.