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Deborah Stull

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    A simple way to boost math progress
    Angela Duckworth lecturing a class with a white board.

    “Our results showed that simple, low-cost nudges can help teachers support student progress in math,” says Penn psychology professor Angela Duckworth.

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    A simple way to boost math progress

    Researchers from Penn’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative and their collaborators conducted a megastudy to investigate whether low-cost nudges–informed by behavioral science–could help teachers accelerate student progress in math.

    3 min. read

    New genetic cause of blindness in dogs
    Aguirre and Murgiano working in a lab with pipettes.

    Gustavo D. Aguirre and Leonardo Murgiano of the School of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.

    (Image: John Donges)

    New genetic cause of blindness in dogs

    In collaboration with a foundation that breeds service dogs for the visually impaired, researchers at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Padova in Padova, Italy, have identified a novel variant associated with progressive retinal atrophy in three Labrador retrievers.

    3 min. read

    Innate immune training aggravates inflammatory bone loss
    Osteoclasts resorbing bone

    Image: Love Employee via Getty Images

    Innate immune training aggravates inflammatory bone loss

    Researchers from the School of Dental Medicine and international collaborators from Germany have investigated the effects of training the innate immune system in experimental models of chronic inflammatory disease, periodontitis and arthritis.
    Getting to the root of root canals
    Person receiving treatment in a dental clinic.

    Image: Courtesy of Penn Dental Medicine/Peter Olson Photography

    Getting to the root of root canals

    Penn researchers use iron oxide nanozymes to treat infections during root canals with fewer adverse effects than clinical gold standard while also promoting tissue healing.