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Erica Moser

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    Addressing the ‘catch-22’ academics face on social media
    Four people on panel.

    At the symposium “Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk?” Annenberg School for Communication professor Guobin Yang, left, participated in a panel on the past and present of risks in academia associated with visibility and surveillance. Annenberg doctoral student Anjali DasSarma, right, moderated the panel. Yang’s Center on Digital Culture and Society hosted the event with Annenberg professor Barbie Zelizer’s Center for Media at Risk.

    (Image: Sharareh Faryadi)

    Addressing the ‘catch-22’ academics face on social media

    The Annenberg School for Communication’s Center for Media at Risk and Center for Digital Culture and Society brought together scholars to analyze the interconnected benefits and risks that academics face using social media.
    The psychology behind the well-being benefits of libraries
    New York Public Library

    Researchers from the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project at the Positive Psychology Center helped the New York Public Library analyze results of a patron survey on the well-being benefits of libraries.

    (Image: Courtesy of The New York Public Library)

    The psychology behind the well-being benefits of libraries

    Penn’s Humanities and Human Flourishing Project at the Positive Psychology Center helped the New York Public Library contextualize results of a patron survey on well-being.
    White House national climate advisor talks Inflation Reduction Act results and reasons for hope
    Ali Zaidi (right) and Justin Worland in discussion at Perry World House.

    White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi (right) and senior correspondent at Time magazine Justin Worland in discussion at Perry World House.

    (Image: Gabby Szczepanek/Perry World House)

    White House national climate advisor talks Inflation Reduction Act results and reasons for hope

    In a fireside chat at Penn, Ali Zaidi talked about the Biden Administration’s climate policy as a throughline to securing global competitiveness and domestic prosperity.
    A Q&A with the director of the Penn Center for AIDS Research
    Four people in front of National AIDS Memorial Quilt.

    Penn researchers affiliated with the Penn Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) attended AIDS Walk Philly in October 2024. Pictured with the National AIDS Memorial Quilt are Deratu Ahmed, a first-year epidemiology doctoral student studying pharmacogenetics related to HIV and tuberculosis in Botswana; Dominique Medaglio, a fourth-year epidemiology doctoral student studying ways to encourage smoking cessation for people with HIV in the United States; CFAR co-director Robert Gross, professor of medicine and epidemiology in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Penn Medicine; and CFAR director Ronald Collman, professor of medicine and microbiology.

    (Image: Courtesy of Ronald G. Collman)

    A Q&A with the director of the Penn Center for AIDS Research

    Ronald G. Collman talks about the current state of AIDS care, work with the City of Philadelphia, and how the Center is supporting collaborations across campus.
    Research on key host pathways has implications for Ebola and beyond
    Ebola virus in cell.

    When the Hippo pathway is “off,” the downstream protein YAP (red) is localized to the nucleus. VP40 (cyan), a viral matrix protein found in the Ebola virus, simultaneously drives vigorous formation and egress of virus-like particles along the cell periphery. In addition, Ebola virus nucleoprotein directs the formation of cytoplasmic inclusion bodies (yellow), also known as viral factories, in which viral RNA synthesis (transcription and replication) occurs.

    (Image: Courtesy of Ronald Harty)

    Research on key host pathways has implications for Ebola and beyond

    A collaborative team of researchers led by Penn Vet’s Ronald N. Harty and Jingjing Liang show how the Hippo signaling pathway intersects with the virus at multiple stages of the viral life cycle.
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