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Penn’s Genomics Curriculum Makes the Latest Science Accessible to High Schoolers

Penn’s Genomics Curriculum Makes the Latest Science Accessible to High Schoolers

By Patrick Ammerman A new University of Pennsylvania effort is bringing genomics into high school classrooms through a free online resource. The goal is to make it easier for science teachers to incorporate the latest advances in science into their curricula.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn Study Identifies New Mechanism of RNA Degradation in Plants

Penn Study Identifies New Mechanism of RNA Degradation in Plants

The totality of RNA molecules in an organism at any one time is the product of a delicate dance. Genes must be “turned on,” or expressed, in order to turn DNA into RNA and then that RNA into proteins that accomplish an organism’s physiological needs. But, just as important, those RNA transcripts must be cleared away once they are no longer required. 

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn Senior Counters Islamophobia With ‘Act of Love’ for Kids Affected by 9/11

Penn Senior Counters Islamophobia With ‘Act of Love’ for Kids Affected by 9/11

Over the summer, as University of Pennsylvania senior Adam Adnane was riding the train with his father on the way home from his research position at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, he quickly consulted his phone to find out when the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha was going to fall this year.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn Sociologist Links Unstable, Unpredictable Schedules to Health Problems

Penn Sociologist Links Unstable, Unpredictable Schedules to Health Problems

For people who work in the service sector, unpredictable, unstable schedules have a range of negative consequences, including psychological stress and poor health, according to a new working paper from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley.

Michele W. Berger

Penn Study Finds Straightforward Way to Model Growth of Vein Networks

Penn Study Finds Straightforward Way to Model Growth of Vein Networks

By Patrick Ammerman Evolution tends to create simple rules that can work in organisms of all kinds. These rules are often all that nature needs to build some of the most complicated parts of biology through thousands of years of adaptation.

Evan Lerner

Penn’s EnerFront Sparks New Ideas on Energy Sustainability

Penn’s EnerFront Sparks New Ideas on Energy Sustainability

By Patrick Ammerman Scientists can seem set apart from other disciplines, interpreting the rules of the natural world without the involvement of the social sciences and the humanities. But a new initiative at the University of Pennsylvania is trying to change that by fostering new collaborations around the lynchpin issue of energy.

Katherine Unger Baillie