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Charles Kane and Eugene Mele to share Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Mele and Kane 2018

Physicists Eugene Mele and Charles Kane of the School of Arts and Sciences are being recognized for their innovative work on topological insulators. 

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Charles Kane and Eugene Mele to share Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

For introducing a new class of materials with unique and useful properties, known as topological insulators, physicists Charles Kane and Eugene Mele will receive the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The award honors “fundamental discoveries…that are transforming our world.”

Katherine Unger Baillie

How parenting affects antisocial behaviors in children
Rebecca Waller, an assistant professor in Penn’s Psychology department, studies antisocial behaviors and parent-child interactions.

Rebecca Waller, an assistant professor of psychology, studies antisocial behaviors and parent-child interactions.

How parenting affects antisocial behaviors in children

In a recent study of the parental caregiving environment, psychologist Rebecca Waller found that within identical twin pairs, the child who experienced harsher behavior and less parental warmth was at a greater risk for developing antisocial behaviors.

Michele W. Berger

Anita Hill, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Dorothy Roberts on inequality and sexual harassment
Anita Hill

Moderator Dorothy Roberts, left, a PIK professor with appointments in law, sociology and Africana studies, pictured with Anita Hill at Irvine Auditorium.

Anita Hill, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Dorothy Roberts on inequality and sexual harassment

During an appearance at Irvine Auditorium on Wednesday, attorney and professor Anita Hill spoke in conversation with Kimberlé Crenshaw, a professor at UCLA Law School and Columbia Law School, and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Dorothy Roberts.
‘Cancer in all forms is our enemy’
Robert H. Vonderheide, the Abramson Cancer Center director

‘Cancer in all forms is our enemy’

Robert H. Vonderheide, the Abramson Cancer Center director, talks innovation, discoveries, FDA approvals, and how to deliver top-of-the-line cancer care.

Lauren Hertzler

Electronic research notebooks streamline the scientific method
Schapiro, Kyra with LabArchives

Kyra Schapiro, a graduate student in the lab of Perelman School of Medicine neuroscientist Joshua Gold, uses LabArchives to plan experiments and track results. Penn’s Office of the Vice Provost for Research has made the electronic research notebook freely available to campus scientists.

Electronic research notebooks streamline the scientific method

To do it right, scientific research requires careful record keeping, dutiful repetition of protocols, and, in many cases, free exchange of data. Electronic research notebooks are intended to help researchers up their game and are now available at no charge to the University community through the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Dawn Bonnell.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Making fossils move to build better robots
Making extinct dinosaurs move to build better robots

Making fossils move to build better robots

Aja Carter, a Ph.D. candidate in paleontology, builds robots based on fossilized animals that crawled out of the sea about 300 million years ago. She’s pioneering a new field that she calls paleo-bio-inspired robotics.

Jacob Williamson-Rea

What happens to the brain after a traumatic injury?
TBI Football Research Senior Justin Morrison (left) and researcher Michael Sangobowale with Ebony Cook, a patient in for a follow-up visit after her apartment ceiling caved in on her. It’s part of an ongoing clinical trial on traumatic brain injury that sees patients five times each, at 72 hours following injury, then again at two weeks, three weeks, six months, and a year later.

What happens to the brain after a traumatic injury?

Two undergrads interning with Penn Medicine’s Ramon Diaz-Arrastia spent the summer looking for biomarkers in the blood of TBI patients, and studying whether the generic form of Viagra might help promote recovery after such an injury.

Michele W. Berger

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