Carlo Siracusa, Penn Vet animal behavior expert, and a feline friend.
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A Penn Vet expert (and cat lover) offers advice on aging cats and cognition
Carlo Siracusa, an animal behavior expert, encourages cat owners to track their pet’s cognitive changes over time and offers advice on “red flags” to watch out for.
Penn professor's new book explores impact of Black storytellers on American culture
A new book by Sarah J. Jackson of the Annenberg School for Communication, “A Second Sight,” examines the impact of Black storytellers on the country's founding and evolution.
Student filmmakers Harper Prentice and Hosaena Tilahun interviewed Alisha Davis, a former history teacher who has served as the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Hyperlocal Heritage archivist since August 2025. As part of America 250, Davis has been surveying collections held at Parkway Central Library and identifying archival materials for digitization, use in programming, and preservation.
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Penn filmmaking class shares the stories of Philadelphia’s neighborhoods
Graduate and undergraduate students in Alissa Jordan’s course partnered with community organizations to create five short films that touch on education, archiving, and grassroots organizing in Germantown, Northeast Philadelphia, and West Philadelphia.
Immune protein a possible target to slow Parkinson’s disease
Researchers at Penn Medicine have found that blocking a key neuronal protein interrupts the spread of toxins to healthy neurons in preclinical studies.
A new study from Wharton’s Tiantian Yang on gender homophily in remote settings finds that women who attended virtual career training did better when their classes did not include men.
Senator Dave McCormick (second from left) and Andrew Hanna (left) observing Hanna’s robotic system for rapidly formulating large numbers of lipid nanoparticles.
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Inside NSF AIRFoundry, Senator McCormick gets a look at the future of RNA discovery
A visit to Penn’s Artificial Intelligence-driven RNA BioFoundry gave U.S. Senator Dave McCormick a firsthand look at how federal investment in science translates into shared research infrastructure, student training, and regional economic development.
