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Making fossils move to build better robots
Making extinct dinosaurs move to build better robots

Making fossils move to build better robots

Aja Carter, a Ph.D. candidate in paleontology, builds robots based on fossilized animals that crawled out of the sea about 300 million years ago. She’s pioneering a new field that she calls paleo-bio-inspired robotics.

Jacob Williamson-Rea

What happens to the brain after a traumatic injury?
TBI Football Research Senior Justin Morrison (left) and researcher Michael Sangobowale with Ebony Cook, a patient in for a follow-up visit after her apartment ceiling caved in on her. It’s part of an ongoing clinical trial on traumatic brain injury that sees patients five times each, at 72 hours following injury, then again at two weeks, three weeks, six months, and a year later.

What happens to the brain after a traumatic injury?

Two undergrads interning with Penn Medicine’s Ramon Diaz-Arrastia spent the summer looking for biomarkers in the blood of TBI patients, and studying whether the generic form of Viagra might help promote recovery after such an injury.

Michele W. Berger

Bringing the world to Penn
Panel on stage at Irvine Auditorium

The “National Visions” roundtable featured former Mexican President Felipe Calderón;  NPR international correspondent Deborah Amos; Catherine Ashton, former high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy; Princeton University professor Aaron Friedberg; and Richard Verma, former U.S. ambassador to India. 

Bringing the world to Penn

Perry World House’s two-day colloquium, “Competing Visions of the Global Order,” featured important conversations with eminent world leaders, and concluded with the Penn Biden Leaders Dialogue.
Exploring the human propensity to cooperate
Exploring the human propensity to cooperate

Exploring the human propensity to cooperate

Working with a nomadic group in Tanzania, one of the last remaining nomadic hunter-gatherer populations, Penn psychologists show that cooperation is flexible, not fixed.

Michele W. Berger

Physicist theorizes that dark matter is a superfluid
Physicist theorizes that dark matter is a superfluid

Physicist theorizes that dark matter is a superfluid

A hypothesis by Justin Khoury of the Department of Physics and Astronomy stands to shake up how scientists consider dark matter.

Jacob Williamson-Rea

Chicago Furniture Bank is up and running, serving the community
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Chicago Furniture Bank is up and running, serving the community

Thanks to a President’s Engagement Prize, Andrew Witherspoon, James McPhail, and Griffin Amdur wasted no time after graduation getting their nonprofit off the ground.

Lauren Hertzler

An oasis of compassion
Mary Walton, Director of the Family Caregiver Center

Mary Walton, director of the Family Caregiver Center, led the effort to establish the Center in 2015.

An oasis of compassion

Since 2015, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has supported the Family Caregiver Center, a three-room space that serves an array of needs, from resources to relaxation, for caregivers—one of only a few in the United States.
Convocation 2018
2018 Convocation - Franklin statue on College Green

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Convocation 2018

Welcoming students at a ceremony on College Green, President Gutmann encouraged the Class of 2022 to work together, with each other, and the Penn community.
Penn welcomes the Class of 2022
Move in 2018

Penn welcomes the Class of 2022

Hailing from 49 states (all but Wyoming), Puerto Rico, and 88 countries around the world, the 2,552 members of the Class of 2022 moved in to Penn on Aug. 22.