In a video interview, third-year Maeve Stiles in the College of Arts and Sciences speaks about her journey with mental health and her experience with Cogwell, a student-run mental health organization hosting events on Penn’s campus.

Lily Brown of the Perelman School of Medicine says that powering through work leaves people prone to poor physical and emotional health, with most workers prone to benefit from microbreaks.

E. John Wherry of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the Long Covid Research Initiative’s greater risk tolerance and more rapid investment pivoting could enable it to outpace the National Institutes of Health.

Stuart Isaacs of the Perelman School of Medicine says that cases of household transmission without sex argue against calling monkeypox an STI, though sex’s frequency as a mode of transmission should still be emphasized.

Yphtach Lelkes of the Annenberg School for Communication says that polarized language between politicians tends to drive mass polarization by stoking self-fulfilling prophecies about a more divided world.

Patrick Connolly of the Perelman School of Medicine writes about the leadership lessons he’s internalized and incorporated into neurosurgery thanks to his dog Buddy.