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Battling painful side effects from breast cancer treatment
A protein on the surface of breast cancer tumors called the estrogen receptor allows the tumors to use estrogen to grow.
Creating a new culinary footprint
Photo credit: Greg Johnson
Lorene Cary/Q&A
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo
History (in pictures) of the Holy Land
In the top image, Jews carry wheat in the Emek (Jezreel Valley) of British Mandate Palestine in 1936. The bottom photo shows the 1868 restoration of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
Foreclosures take an emotional toll
Millions of Americans have lost their homes, and neighborhoods and communities have suffered since the U.S. housing bubble began to burst in 2006.
Student Spotlight: Katie Reynolds
Photo credit: Mark Stehle TRAINING CAMP: Before she even began classes at Penn, Katie Reynolds served as a manager for the football team.
Staff Q&A/Doug Berger
Photo credit: Mark Stehle Doug Berger, executive director of the Business Services Division, is a man of
Botswana-UPenn Partnership helps tackle national crisis
Botswana, in southern Africa, suffers from the second highest HIV/AIDS rate in the world, with nearly a quarter of the adult population infected.
Q&A/Arjun Yodh
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Arjun G. Yodh, the James M. Skinner Professor of Science, wanted to be a journalist.
A vet's view of animal research
Debates about using animals in research stretch back centuries, but the modern animal rights movement was born in 1975 when philosopher Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton, published his book “Animal Liberation.”