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Penn Program in Environmental Humanities’ Event Explores the Idea of an ‘Ecotopian Toolkit’
Prompted in part by the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia, the “Ecotopian Toolkit” conference at the University of Pennsylvania will celebrate how utopian imaginaries from across disciplines can address environmental challenges.
Penn programs offer Philadelphia students a STEM-filled summer
With a suite of programs in the STEM fields being offered for middle and high school students at Penn this summer, including many with scholarships and financial aid to defray costs, Philadelphia students have fewer excuses for experiencing a “summer slide.”
Penn Dental Medicine Professor Unlocks the Mysteries of Mast Cells
Mast cells, components of the immune system, are responsible for alleriges and asthma, conditions that debilitate millions. Yet relatively few scientists study them.
Penn Vet expertise serves and supports Pennsylvania farmers
When Bob Ruth of Clemens Food Group set up two swine farms in Pennsylvania in the mid-1990s, one of the first things he did was call Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine.
Penn Vet researchers find new promise for treating a tropical skin disease
A quick, often imperceptible bite from a sand fly can transmit the dreaded parasitic disease leishmaniasis. No vaccine exists for the infection, which causes disfiguring and long-lasting skin ulcers.
Penn hosts cancer conversation with Biden, other experts at Silfen University Forum
Penn hosts cancer conversation with Biden, other experts at Silfen University Forum
The wide-ranging discussion emphasized the importance of collaboration among researchers, the challenge of prevention, and the crucial importance of discovery and innovation in reaching milestones in cancer prevention and treatment.
Penn Vet Team Identifies New Therapeutic Targets for the Tropical Disease Leishmaniasis
Each year, about 2 million people contract leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by the bite of a sand fly. The cutaneous form of the disease results in disfiguring skin ulcers that may take months or years to heal and in rare cases can become metastatic, causing major tissue damage.
Headed by Penn President’s Engagement Prize Winner, Ghanaian Girls’ School Opens
Two years ago, the vision of Shadrack Frimpong, then a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, was to to open a girls’ school and health clinic in his home village of Tarkwa Breman, Ghana.
Penn-led group says ‘Tully monster’ mystery remains unsolved
Some fossils are “problematic.” They resist all attempts at classification. They lack a home on the tree of life.The Tully monster, Tullimonstrom gregarium, is one such problematic creature.
T Cells Support Long-lived Antibody-producing Cells, Penn-led Team Finds
If you’ve ever wondered how a vaccine given decades ago can still protect against infection, you have your plasma cells to thank. Plasma cells are long-lived B cells that reside in the bone marrow and churn out antibodies against previously encountered vaccines or pathogens.