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Erica Moser

Science News Officer
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    Making virtual worlds
    Lorraine Ruppert wears virtual reality headset.

    Lorraine Ruppert wore a virtual reality headset and zoomed in and out of her virtual world, which shows sites of historical memory and resistance in Philadelphia's Chinatown.

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    Making virtual worlds

    In a class this spring, Jeffrey Vadala of the Penn Brain Science Center taught students to analyze virtual reality landscapes and create their own.
    Who, What, Why: Nursing student and Peace Corps alum Eva Farrell
    Eva Farrell.

    “The Peace Corps really became the foundation for my approach in health care, in making sure it’s collaborative, patient-centered, and culturally competent,” says Eva Farrell, a master's student in the School of Nursing.

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    Who, What, Why: Nursing student and Peace Corps alum Eva Farrell

    Serving in the Peace Corps as a math and science teacher in Kenya from 2012 to 2014 inspired MSN student Eva Farrell to go into nursing.
    My Climate Story expands across continent with Campus Correspondents
    Faith Bochert and Maria Villarreal Simon.

    Faith Bochert and Maria Villarreal Simon volunteered at the My Climate Story table at GreenFest in April 2024.

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    My Climate Story expands across continent with Campus Correspondents

    My Climate Story, a project from the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, now has 12 correspondents gathering climate stories from 12 campuses across North America.
    How deadly parasites choose to be male
    Transcription atlas of Cryptosporidium life cycle.

    Penn Vet researchers developed the Cryptosporidium single-cell atlas, revealing which genes are expressed at which points across the parasite’s life cycle. On the left, the atlas shows parasites replicating asexually in green, with males in blue and females in pink. On the right, micrographs of the stages are shown, with their nuclei highlighted in green.

    (Image: Boris Striepen)

    How deadly parasites choose to be male

    Penn Vet researchers reveal the gene expression across the life cycle of Cryptosporidium and identify the determinant of maleness.
    How much gossip is needed to foster social cooperation?
    One person whispers in the ear of another.

    (Image: iStock/AndreyPopov)

    How much gossip is needed to foster social cooperation?

    Researchers Mari Kawakatsu, Taylor A. Kessinger, and Joshua B. Plotkin in Penn’s Department of Biology developed a model incorporating two forms of gossip to study indirect reciprocity.
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