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When pediatricians become podcasters, who tunes in?
A tall red-headed smiling young woman stands between two pregnant smiling women, under a sign that says 2 East 2 West Harriet and Ronald Lassin Newborn/Infant Intensive Care Uni

Rising sophomore Julia Kafozoff (center) is researching the reach of the “Baby Doctor Mamas” podcast, hosted by CHOP pediatricians, Joanna Parga-Belinkie (left) and Diana Montoya-Williams (right), as well as the reach of the “Primary Care Physicians” podcast, hosted by CHOP pediatrician Katie Lockwood (not pictured).

When pediatricians become podcasters, who tunes in?

Sophomore Julia Kafozoff, a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia intern, is working with three podcasting physicians to determine how much listeners actually learn from these educational tools.

Gina Vitale Michele W. Berger

Through gemstones, a glimpse into ancient Egyptian civilization
In a room with stacks of books on bookshelves, a person sits at a table wearing rubber gloves to analyze materials sitting in a basket on her right. She holds them over two white papers, and to her left are a notepad, phone, and computer.

Doctoral student Shelby Justl studies the semiprecious stones of ancient Egypt in an effort to better understand the role that red jasper, carnelian, and others played in that society. Here, she is seen at the British Museum in 2018. (Photo: Courtesy Shelby Justl)

Through gemstones, a glimpse into ancient Egyptian civilization

Doctoral student Shelby Justl’s research expands what we know about who controlled semiprecious stones like red jasper and carnelian, plus their cultural and economic significance.

Michele W. Berger

Stage presence
Student standing on steps of the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.

Rising Penn senior Leo Sarbanes, a music major, is an intern with Opera Philadelphia through the Summer Humanities Internship Program.  

Stage presence

Senior music major Leo Sarbanes has become a leading voice on the little-known opera “The Love for Three Oranges” during his summer internship with Opera Philadelphia.
Minorities in majority spaces
Ashleigh Cartwright

Minorities in majority spaces

Ashleigh Cartwright, doctoral candidate in sociology, examines how nonwhite students are selected and prepared to integrate historically white schools.

Penn Today Staff

Five events to watch for in August
Three people posing by a doorway with a cello and harp

Ezgi Yargici, Valerie V. Gay, and Candace Lark-Masucci, of EVER Ensemble. (Photo: Ryan Collerd)
 

Five events to watch for in August

BlackStar Film Festival, a special 12@12 at the Arthur Ross Gallery, and an alcohol-themed tour through Penn Museum stock up late-summer events in August.
An early start at research
A young woman (right) places electrodes on another young woman's neck (left).

Rising senior Donnisa Edmonds (right) practices placing electrodes on her colleague to measure physiological responses. As part of her research with the EDEN lab, she tracks the physical responses of children as they perform a series of tasks.

An early start at research

As part of the Jumpstart for Juniors program through the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, rising seniors can spend the summer working with faculty on unique and fascinating projects.

Gina Vitale Katherine Unger Baillie

Q&A with mathematician Tony Pantev
tony pantev standing in front of the David Rittenhouse Laboratory building
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    • Q&A with mathematician Tony Pantev

    Penn Today interviewed the math department’s incoming chair to learn about his longtime passion for geometry and his hopes for the future of contemporary math research.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    Making insights into ancient marine ecosystems with 3D-printed shells
    Scientist looks at a 3D printer in a scientific lab

    Erynn Johnson monitors the progress of the lab’s 3D printer in Hayden Hall as it produces a resin-based replica of a snail shell. Her research, which relies on mathematical modeling paired with paleontology, gives insights into how shelled marine creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago evolved to withstand the crunching jaws of predators.

    Making insights into ancient marine ecosystems with 3D-printed shells

    If you’re a snail hoping to survive an encounter with a hungry fish, it helps to have a strong shell. Paleoecology doctoral student Erynn Johnson is using 3D printing to understand how predator-prey interactions may have played out hundreds of millions of years ago.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Uncovering the roots of discrimination toward immigrants
    A group of people waiting on a platform of a train station with sunlit windows and a train on the tracks.

    Sambanis and his co-authors ran the experiment more than 1,600 times in train stations in 30 cities in both western and eastern Germany, with more than 7,000 bystanders unwittingly participating.

    Uncovering the roots of discrimination toward immigrants

    New research from political scientist Nicholas Sambanis finds that religion may matter more than ethnicity in how immigrants are treated, even if they comply with local social norms.

    Gwyneth K. Shaw

    A deep dive into digital humanities at Penn
    A group of people sitting around a rectangular wooden table on the bottom floor of a two-story room in a library adorned with books and busts.

    Dot Porter’s Digital Surrogates course, seen here in Lea Library, was one of nine offered during the DReAM Lab. Topics ranged from text analysis to digital humanities in the classroom. (Photo: Sarah Milinski)

    A deep dive into digital humanities at Penn

    The weeklong DReAM Lab, put on by the Price Lab for Digital Humanities and the Penn Libraries, offered participants the chance to study a range of subjects, from text analysis to augmented reality and Afrofuturism.

    Michele W. Berger