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Deans of health schools discuss climate change in their fields
Deans sit on Climate Week panel.

Kathy D. Morrison, faculty lead for the Environmental Innovations Initiative; Andrew M. Hoffman, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine; Antonia M. Villarruel, dean of the School of Nursing; Farah Hussain, representing the dean of the Perelman School of Medicine; Sara S. Bachman, dean of School of Social Policy and Practice; Mark Wolff, dean of the School of Dental Medicine; and Julian Fisher, director of Oral and Planetary Health Policies in Penn Dental, sit onstage for a Climate Week discussion on climate and health.

(Image: Tommy Leonardi)

Deans of health schools discuss climate change in their fields

Deans and leaders from the schools of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Dental Medicine, Nursing, and Social Policy & Practice discussed climate and health at a Climate Week event.
Teaching Aristotle and modern moral philosophy
Sukaina Hirji poses outside Cohen Hall.

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Teaching Aristotle and modern moral philosophy

Philosophy professor Sukaina Hirji has expanded her work from Aristotle and the history of philosophy to contemporary issues of love and sex, oppression, and anger.
Paul Farber on the Monument Lab and public art
An installation on the National Mall.

Wendy Red Star, The Soil You See..., 2023, from Beyond Granite on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

(Image: AJ Mitchell/Courtesy of Monument Lab)

Paul Farber on the Monument Lab and public art

The Penn alum and co-founder of Monument Lab offers a behind-the-scenes look at the new public art installation curated by Monument Lab on the National Mall.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Carl June on the boundless potential of CAR T cell therapy
Carl June with a microphone in the Penn Medicine atrium with the celebratory flash mob.

Carl June, at the flash mob celebration of the FDA approval of the CAR T cell therapy he developed, in August 2017.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine Magazine)

Carl June on the boundless potential of CAR T cell therapy

In a Q & A, June, the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy, and Daniel Baker, a fourth-year doctoral student in Penn’s Cell and Molecular Biology department, discuss how the treatment can extend to treating diseases beyond cancer.

From Penn Medicine News

Chasing the mysteries of microbiome communication in our bodies
Maayan Levy and Christoph Thaiss.

Perelman School of Medicine’s Maayan Levy, and Christoph Thaiss.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News)

Chasing the mysteries of microbiome communication in our bodies

Penn Medicine’s Maayan Levy and Christoph Thaiss, both assistant professors of microbiology, pursue an understanding of the the microbiome, the entirety of microbial organisms associated with the human body, and its relation to fundamental bodily systems.

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Penn Engineering’s Michael Posa on robots in the real world
Illustration of Michael Posa.

Michael Posa is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Engineering Today)

Penn Engineering’s Michael Posa on robots in the real world

With funding from the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, Posa is working on a new teaching method where robots interact with objects in the real world to build real-world intelligence via small data sets.

From Penn Engineering Today

A Philadelphia artistic collaboration at Penn 
Kay Seohyung Lee standing in art gallery leaning against a wall

Kay Seohyung Lee, lecturer in fine arts at the Weitzman School of Design.

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A Philadelphia artistic collaboration at Penn 

An exhibition of 50 artworks by 34 undergraduate students in six Philadelphia colleges and universities, “Let Me Know You Are Alright,” is on view at the Charles Addams Gallery on campus through Aug. 18.