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How humans use their sense of smell to find their way
Clara Raithel looks at brain scans on a computer in a lab.

Sixth-year Ph.D. student Clara Raithel looks at an anatomical brain scan taken from a previous study participant.

(Image: Courtesy of OMNIA)

How humans use their sense of smell to find their way

In the lab of neuroscientist Jay Gottfried, sixth-year psychology Ph.D. student Clara Raithel tries to understand how people’s brains respond to odors.

Michele W. Berger

Coca-Cola in Africa
Sara Byala portrait and book cover for Bottled How Coca-Cola Became African by Sara Byala

Sara Byala, a senior lecturer in creative writing and associate director of the Penn Global Documentary Institute, is the author of a new book, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African." 

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    • Coca-Cola in Africa

    A new book by Sara Byala of the School of Arts & Sciences examines the century-long history of Coca-Cola and its local social, commercial, and environmental impact in Africa.
    The Asian American studies program doubles in size
    Andrea Cherng speaks to a roomful of students in the McNeil Atrium

    Andrea Cherng addresses students at the ASAM welcome lunch in September, joined by David Eng (left) and Fariha Khan (right). 

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    The Asian American studies program doubles in size

    Three core and two affiliated faculty members with expertise in English, sociology, history, anthropology, and education join the Asian American studies program.

    Kristina García

    Arthur Ross Gallery celebrates its 40th anniversary
    Entrance to the Arthur Ross Gallery with a sign that says Celebrating 40 years and Goya

    The Arthur Ross Gallery celebrates its 40th anniversary with the exhibition “Goya: Prints from the Arthur Ross Collection,” featuring rare first-edition prints by Spanish artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. 

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    Arthur Ross Gallery celebrates its 40th anniversary

    The Arthur Ross Gallery celebrates its 40th anniversary with the opening of an exhibition featuring rare first-edition prints by Spanish artist Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes.
    Reading recommendations from Penn experts for LGBT History Month
    Various book covers of queer texts.

    From left to right, clockwise: “After Sappho,” by Selby Wynn Schwartz and published by W.W. Norton; “City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves,” by Marc Stein and published by Temple University Press; “Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand,” by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press; “Just Above My Head,” by James Baldwin and published by Dial Press.

    (Image: Various publishers)

    Reading recommendations from Penn experts for LGBT History Month

    The LGBT Center, Penn Libraries, and others put forward their literary picks for LGBT History Month.
    A look at former Penn economics professor Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-winning work
    Two men and three women sit at desks with typwriters, rotary dial phones and desk calendars in an office in the 1950s.

    Workers in Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., in 1959.

    (Image: CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

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    • A look at former Penn economics professor Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-winning work

    Penn economists Jere Behrman, who overlapped with Goldin during her time at Penn, and Petra Todd, whose students have been motivated by Goldin’s work, talk about the importance of her research. 

    Kristen de Groot

    Leveraging the body’s postal system to understand and treat disease
    Isolated microfluidic chip with blood sample inside of micropipette 3d rendered in the black background

    A research team led by Jina Ko of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Perelman School of Medicine has developed a new way to characterize the contents of a cargo-carrying particle excreted by many cells, extracellular vesicles.

    (image: iStock / Love Employee)

    Leveraging the body’s postal system to understand and treat disease

    An interdisciplinary team of researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Perelman School of Medicine, and School of Arts & Sciences has developed a technique that allows for characterization of both individual carrier and cargo for clinically important molecules.
    Measuring the ripple effects of reforestation and sustainable cocoa cultivation
    cocoa beans

    (Image: Christina Seybolt, courtesy of Heather Huntington)

    Measuring the ripple effects of reforestation and sustainable cocoa cultivation

    With support from the Penn Global Engagement Fund, Heather Huntington is investigating the impact of reforestation and sustainable agriculture interventions on livelihoods, biodiversity, and human health in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.

    Liana F. Wait