Dipti Pitta and researchers in her lab at the School of Veterinary Medicine are investigating how adding a certain type of red seaweed to a cow's diet can curtail methane emissions, which are one of the top contributors to climate warming.
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Understanding how a red seaweed reduces methane emissions from cows
New research from the School of Veterinary Medicine has implications for addressing a leading contributor to climate warming.
Matthew Breier, a rising third-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences, spent a lot of time going through Philadelphia’s 1918 city directory this summer. Through the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program, he is helping professor David Barnes understand the impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic on the city’s Black and immigrant neighborhoods.
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Exploring the 1918 pandemic’s impact on Philadelphia’s Black and immigrant neighborhoods
Rising third-year Matthew Breier has been conducting research with public health historian David Barnes through the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program.
Colin Twomey created the University Atlas Project, showing the thematic commonalities between research publications from current faculty in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Viewers can search for publications by department, faculty member, program affiliation, keyword, or year. The map can be viewed at uatlas.com/penn/sas
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Using AI to map research in the School of Arts & Sciences
Colin Twomey of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative applied a large language model to create a color-coded, interactive map of publications from current SAS faculty.
University of Pennsylvania physics and engineering researchers have created a contrastive local learning network, an analog system that is fast, low-power, scalable, and able to learn nonlinear tasks.
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A first, physical system to learn nonlinear tasks without a traditional computer processor
Physics and engineering researchers created a contrastive local learning network that is fast, low-power, and scalable.
Uncovering the drivers of a million-year-old glacial transition
Driving a climate model forward and backward in time, Mann Research Group scientists found strong path dependence in the evolution of Plio-Pleistocene glaciations.
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.
“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.
Understanding inequities in nurses’ moral distress during COVID-19
New research from Penn Nursing shows how poorer resources and communication in hospitals where Black patients predominantly access care impacts feelings of moral distress among nurses.
