The motor driving Penn’s biomedical research Michael Ostap is the interim senior vice dean and chief scientific officer of the Perelman School of Medicine.(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine Magazine) The motor driving Penn’s biomedical research For nearly three decades, interim senior vice dean and chief scientific officer of the Perelman School of Medicine Michael Ostap has investigated how molecules such as myosin feel force, in an effort to understand how cellular mutations cause disease.
Nelson Flores looks back on decades of bilingual education Image: iStock/diego_cervo Nelson Flores looks back on decades of bilingual education Flores, a professor in Penn’s Graduate School of Education, uncovers why Latinx students have tested as underperforming in academic language for decades due to education policy and societal constraints.
A less clumpy, more complex universe? A less clumpy, more complex universe? Researchers combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe’s evolutionary history and found that it may have become “messier and complicated” than expected in recent years.
The social structures that shape AI Image: iStock/Userba011d64_201 The social structures that shape AI There’s more hype than ever around artificial intelligence, but Assistant Professor of Sociology Benjamin Shestakofsky says it’s important to fully examine how the new technology fits into broader society.
Why the most successful companies are scalable Why the most successful companies are scalable Giant companies stay on top because they’re both more productive and scalable than their competitors, according to research from Wharton and the School of Arts & Sciences. 2 min. read
How do you authenticate a long-lost Chopin waltz? Jeffrey Kallberg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music and interim dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, plays the newly found Chopin waltz and other music from the composer on a Érard piano donated by alum Yves Gaden.nocred How do you authenticate a long-lost Chopin waltz? Jeffrey Kallberg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music and interim dean of Penn Arts & Sciences, has helped to verify the first major manuscript from the famous composer since the 1930s.
Developing a tiny anticancer weapon Image: iStock/Bahaa_Aladdin Developing a tiny anticancer weapon Penn Medicine researchers have developed tumor-homing nanosized particles that trigger cancer cell self-destruction in preclinical tests.
Penn Center for Innovation celebrates 10 years (Image: Eric Sucar) Penn Center for Innovation celebrates 10 years The University’s nexus for technology transfer supports researchers in their innovative efforts, from CAR T to mRNA advancements that have dramatically reshaped the world.
Five from Penn recognized with Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers nocred Five from Penn recognized with Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers The award honors federally funded early-career scientists.
Fruit fly development offers insights into condensed matter physics Drosophila melanogaster, the fruit fly, has long been a model species for biologists seeking to understand the molecular mechanisms of animal function and how novelty may arise in organisms. Theoretical physicist Andrea Liu of the School of Arts & Sciences is conducting research on the insect, along with biology and experimental biophysics collaborators at Duke University. Their research has opened the door to an approach that could offer not only a new understanding of how biological function emerges but also suggest a new class of systems in condensed matter physics.(Image: iStock / nechaev-kon) Fruit fly development offers insights into condensed matter physics Penn Physicist Andrea Liu and collaborators modeled the behavior of tissue during a stage of fly development and found, surprisingly, it doesn’t fluidize as it shrinks but stays solid. Their approach could offer insights physical systems with complex functionality.