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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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How Positivity Makes You Healthy and Successful
Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for researching how pessimism is not good for health.
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A New Spin in Silicon
Ritesh Agarwal of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is featured for leading a group of scientists to discover a photonic spin sensor.
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Take the Quiet Revolution Personality Test
Scott Barry Kaufman of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for co-developing a test to indicate where an individual falls on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.
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Sniffing Out Ovarian Cancer
Charlie Johnson of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Arts & Sciences is mentioned as a physicist and director of Penn’s Nano/Bio Interface Center.
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How Bioethics Has Pushed America Left
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences blogs about the impact of bioethics on America.
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We May Have Been Wrong About How African Pygmies Grow
Sarah Tishkoff of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about there being very few studies of Baka, African Pygmies.
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A Professor Just Gave Us a Brutally Honest Assessment of Killer Robots
Jonathan Moreno of the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts & Sciences comments on autonomous weapons.
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Step Forward for Computing by Light
Ritesh Agarwal of the School of Engineering and Applied Science comments on computing using light and photo-detector devices.
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Step Forward for Computing by Light
Ritesh Agarwal of the School of Engineering and Applied Science explains how a photodetector sensitive to the “spin” of photons could improve computing.
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Battle of the Bots: U.S. Blocks Iran and Putters Ball to Glory in RoboCup Finals
A robot named THORwin, designed by Penn students is featured for winning the “adult-size humanoid” category in the RoboCup soccer final competition.