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Erica Moser

Science News Officer
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    Public opinion research in changing times
    A graph indicating public opinion polling.

    Image: Ikon Images via AP Images

    Public opinion research in changing times

    In a Q&A, William Marble of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies talks about how PORES has had to adjust to the series of rapidly changing events in the presidential race and to longer-standing shifts in public opinion research methodologies.
    Reducing a dog’s temperature after exercise with voluntary head dunking
    Dog dunks head in water.

    Penn Vet researchers trained physically and mentally healthy dogs to voluntarily dunk their heads in water, an effective method for rapidly cooling canines after exercise.

    (Image: Shelby Wise/Wise K9 Photography)

    Reducing a dog’s temperature after exercise with voluntary head dunking

    Penn Vet Working Dog Center researchers have identified an effective and field-applicable way to rapidly help dogs cool down after exercise.
    Testing a novel, community-driven response to heat islands in Philadelphia
    Hanzhong Luo has his body heat scanned in a cooling shelter prototype.

    Dorit Aviv uses an infrared camera to demonstrate the effects of the Tenopy’s radiant cooling panels on Hanzhong Luo.

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    Testing a novel, community-driven response to heat islands in Philadelphia

    Researchers from three University of Pennsylvania schools collaborated with a Hunting Park nonprofit to design, build, and test a prototype of a cooling shelter to place at a bus stop.
    A modified peptide shows promise for fighting tumors
    Tumor microenvironment.

    A collaborative team of researchers including scientists from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine show how a modified peptide can successfully target the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment.

    (Image: iStock/Marcin Klapczynski)

    A modified peptide shows promise for fighting tumors

    Researchers in Penn Vet led a collaborative study that demonstrates how a modified peptide normalizes tumor vasculature and enhances various cancer treatments.
    A summer researching equine osteoarthritis and a potential treatment
    Kyla Ortved watches Sidney Wong work under hood in lab.

    Rising second-year Sidney Wong, right, spent the summer working in the lab of Penn Vet professor Kyla Ortved, left, through the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program.

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    A summer researching equine osteoarthritis and a potential treatment

    Through the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program, rising second-year Sidney Wong has conducted research in the lab of Kyla Ortved at Penn Vet.
    Studying the benefits of virtual art engagement
    "Pennsylvania Landscape" painting by Charles Sheeler.

    Charles Sheeler’s Pennsylvania Landscape (1925) was among the artworks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art that Katherine Cotter and James Pawelski included in virtual galleries for a study.

    (Image: Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art)

    Studying the benefits of virtual art engagement

    James Pawelski and Katherine Cotter talk to Penn Today about their research into digital art galleries.
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