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Penn Chemists Put a New Twist on Chirality
Biological molecules are chiral. Like gloves, they have either left- or right-handed versions that can’t be superimposed on one another. Macromolecules like DNA are also chiral and are exclusively made of building blocks with the same handedness.
Penn Sociologists Dig Deep Into the Needs of South Philly’s Latino Immigrants
Emilio A. Parrado is concerned about how immigrants incorporate into new communities.
Penn Helps Secure World Heritage City Designation for Philadelphia
The Organization of World Heritage Cities has voted to name Philadelphia as a World Heritage City. With the announcement, Philadelphia became the first American city to join an elite group that includes Paris, Cairo and Jerusalem.
Penn Lightbulb Café Presents ‘A Medieval Buddhist Treatise on Love and Sex’
WHO: Daud Ali Associate Professor Department of South Asia Studies
Ancient Mass Extinction Led to Dominance of Tiny Fish, Penn Paleontologist Shows
When times are good, it pays to be the big fish in the sea; in the aftermath of disaster, however, smaller is better.
Penn Team Shares in 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration, which includes physicists from the University of Pennsylvania, shared the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Penn, Notre Dame Researchers Mapping Genetic History of the Caribbean
In the island chain called the Lesser Antilles, stretching from the Virgin Islands south to Trinidad and Tobago, a team of researchers lead by Theodore Schurr, an anthropology professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts & Sciences, is so
Penn Panel Reflects on the 2005 Philadelphia Grand Jury Report on Child Sex Abuse in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Marking the 10-year anniversary of the largest of three grand jury reports, a panel hosted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society reflected on the “Ramifications of the Philadelphia Grand Jury Report on Child Sex Abuse in the Archdiocese: Lessons Learned and Lesson
Penn Undergraduate Takes Time Out to Hike the Appalachian Trail
By Claire Daly Harry Glicklich first set foot on the Appalachian Trail at summer camp almost 10 years ago. Although he only hiked a small section, the trip has been in the back of his mind ever since.
In the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
A collector donated 75,000 comic books to Penn Libraries, valued at more than $500,000
Alumnus Gary Prebula and his wife, Dawn, have donated a $500,000 collection of more than 75,000 comic books and graphic novels to Penn Libraries, featuring remarks from Sean Quimly of the Kislak Center and Jean-Christophe Cloutier of the School of Arts & Sciences.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
He started college in prison. Now, he is Rutgers-Camden’s first Truman scholar
Tej Patel, a third-year in the Wharton School and College of Arts and Sciences from Billeria, Massachusetts, was one of 60 college students nationwide chosen to be a Truman Scholar.
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KQED Radio (San Francisco)
Violence escalates in Sudan as civil war enters second year
Ali Ali-Dinar of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the forces driving the civil war in Sudan and how the global community is responding.
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BBC
From Ancient Egypt to Roman Britain, brewers are reviving beers from the past
Patrick McGovern of the School of Arts & Sciences and Penn Museum oversaw the first hi-tech molecular analysis of residues found in bronze drinking vessels during a 1950s excavation of an ancient Turkish tomb.
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The Washington Post
Forecast group predicts busiest hurricane season on record with 33 storms
A research team led by Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences is predicting the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season will produce the most named storms on record, fueled by exceptionally warm ocean waters and an expected shift from El Niño to La Niña.
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