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Organizational Structure Creates Valuable Social Connections, Penn Research Shows

Organizational Structure Creates Valuable Social Connections, Penn Research Shows

The way organizations choose to structure internal relationships among participants can create valuable social connections, if done properly, according to Amanda Barrett Cox, a fourth-year doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, who published her findi

Michele W. Berger

Penn Researchers Show That Cubic Membranes Might Provide Defense of Sick Cells

Penn Researchers Show That Cubic Membranes Might Provide Defense of Sick Cells

It’s well known that, when cells are subject to stress, starvation or viral infection, they sometimes adopt a cubic architecture. Unlike the simple spherical structure of membranes in healthy cells, these cubic membranes, or cubosomes, are very complex, forming an interconnected network of water channels resembling a “plumber’s nightmare.”

Ali Sundermier

Empowered, Penn Undergraduate Is Working to Expand Access to Education

Empowered, Penn Undergraduate Is Working to Expand Access to Education

When Madison Dawkins, a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, was growing up, she learned to feel empowered as a woman. From kindergarten on, she attended an all-girls school in Bryn Mawr, Pa., near her hometown of Wynnewood.

Ali Sundermier

Penn Researchers Expand Research on Simplifying Recycling of Rare-earth Metals

Penn Researchers Expand Research on Simplifying Recycling of Rare-earth Metals

In a previous study, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania pioneered a process that could enable the efficient recycling of two rare-earth metals, neodymium and dysprosium, which are found in the small, powerful magnets in many high-tech