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Creating atomic water filters
Creating Atomic Water Filters

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Creating atomic water filters

A vast majority of the earth’s water is salty, making it unfit for people to drink. Researchers are working on a technology that could potentially offer a new method of desalinating water that would be both fast and scalable.

Ali Sundermier

Bringing a ‘One Health’ perspective to global challenges
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Penn Vet Dean Joan Hendricks will lead a “satellite session” on issues around livestock and health at the Ninth Annual CUGH Global Health Conference in New York City on Thursday, March 15.

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Bringing a ‘One Health’ perspective to global challenges

Universities, Penn included, have a major role to play in advancing global health, combining research and education across disciplines to find solutions to urgent worldwide challenges.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Celebrating Penn’s innovators
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Celebrating Penn’s innovators

A professor, researcher, and inventor, Daniel Powell, an international expert in cancer immunobiology and translational immunotherapy, is one of Penn’s most engaged new innovators.

Lauren Hertzler

Building futures through LEGOs
Building Futures Through LEGOs

Since this year’s theme is water, the students had to create autonomous robots that would move through LEGO field models and accomplish tasks such as collecting rain water, helping flowers grow, and putting out fires.

Building futures through LEGOs

In the FIRST LEGO League tournament, middle school teams mentored by Penn Engineering students worked to design and build robots related to the theme of water.

Ali Sundermier

Physicist strums string theory at Philly high school

    • Physicist strums string theory at Philly high school

    In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the universe is composed of one-dimensional cosmic strings vibrating at different frequencies. To high school students at Philadelphia Performing Arts: A String Theory Charter School in Center City, “string theory” is an allusion to the valuable effect of creativity, music, and the arts on developing minds.

    Ali Sundermier

    Researchers prove that timed brain stimulation improves memory

    • Researchers prove that timed brain stimulation improves memory

    Performance can be enhanced by as much as 15 percent, according to a study by Penn neuroscientists published in Nature Communications. It is the first time such a connection has been made.

    Michele W. Berger

    Study uncovers therapeutic targets for aggressive triple-negative breast cancers

    • Study uncovers therapeutic targets for aggressive triple-negative breast cancers

    As part of a breast-cancer diagnosis, doctors analyze the tumor to determine which therapies might best attack the malignancy. But for patients whose cancer is triple-negative — that is, lacking receptors for estrogen, progesterone and Her2 — the options for treatment dwindle. Triple-negative cancers, or TNBC, also tend to be more aggressive than other cancer subtypes.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    By altering bone marrow, ‘training’ can prepare innate immune system for future challenges
    Hajishengallis, an expert in the immune mechanisms behind the gum disease periodontitis

    Hajishengallis, an expert in the immune mechanisms behind the gum disease periodontitis, worked with an international team to show that the innate immune system--typically thought to lack immune memory--can in fact be trained to "remember" past threats.

    By altering bone marrow, ‘training’ can prepare innate immune system for future challenges

    George Hajishengallis of the School of Dental Medicine and an international team of colleagues have found that “training” the immune system causes changes in the precursors of immune cells in the bone marrow. These changes could facilitate a more robust response to future infections or even enable the immune system to regenerate faster after chemotherapy.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    The challenge: Create a tool predicting where crime will happen

    • The challenge: Create a tool predicting where crime will happen

    The idea that machine learning can aid in the enforcement of the law inspired a competition held by the National Institute of Justice. Using five years of data from the city of Portland, Ore., a team led by criminologist Charles Loeffler tied for first in the Large Business Division.

    Michele W. Berger