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A year after the Nobel Prize, Penn’s mRNA research is revving up
A lab worker with latex gloves doing mRNA research.

The flurry of new innovation in mRNA beyond COVID-19 vaccines began prior to Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó’s Nobel, but the award has only built on the wave of enthusiasm for mRNA research.

(Image: Dan Burke)

A year after the Nobel Prize, Penn’s mRNA research is revving up

In 2023, Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó received Nobel Prize recognition for mRNA vaccines. Today, the work continues apace as successes across the University show how medicine is changing rapidly as a result of the prize-winning discovery.

Alex Gardner

Reducing a dog’s temperature after exercise with voluntary head dunking
Dog dunks head in water.

Penn Vet researchers trained physically and mentally healthy dogs to voluntarily dunk their heads in water, an effective method for rapidly cooling canines after exercise.

(Image: Shelby Wise/Wise K9 Photography)

Reducing a dog’s temperature after exercise with voluntary head dunking

Penn Vet Working Dog Center researchers have identified an effective and field-applicable way to rapidly help dogs cool down after exercise.
Testing a novel, community-driven response to heat islands in Philadelphia
Hanzhong Luo has his body heat scanned in a cooling shelter prototype.

Dorit Aviv uses an infrared camera to demonstrate the effects of the Tenopy’s radiant cooling panels on Hanzhong Luo.

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Testing a novel, community-driven response to heat islands in Philadelphia

Researchers from three University of Pennsylvania schools collaborated with a Hunting Park nonprofit to design, build, and test a prototype of a cooling shelter to place at a bus stop.
As the world warms, how are young people feeling?
A young person pouring water over their head.

Image: Courtesy of Environmental Innovations Initiative

As the world warms, how are young people feeling?

Climate scientist Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences and Annenberg School for Communication leads a research community that aims to understand climate anxiety and improve climate communication.

From the Environmental Innovations Initiative

Uncovering new antibiotics inside the human gut
Microscopic rendering of bacterial in the small intestines.

Image: iStock/ChrisChrisW

Uncovering new antibiotics inside the human gut

Researchers from Penn Engineering, led by César de la Fuente, have leveraged AI to discover dozens of potential new antibiotics in the human gut microbiome.

Ian Scheffler

Understanding how a red seaweed reduces methane emissions from cows
Dipti Pitta with cows.

Dipti Pitta and researchers in her lab at the School of Veterinary Medicine are investigating how adding a certain type of red seaweed to a cow's diet can curtail methane emissions, which are one of the top contributors to climate warming.

(Image: Courtesy of Dipti Pitta)

Understanding how a red seaweed reduces methane emissions from cows

New research from the School of Veterinary Medicine has implications for addressing a leading contributor to climate warming.
Using AI to map research in the School of Arts & Sciences
Screenshot of University Atlas Project visualization.

Colin Twomey created the University Atlas Project, showing the thematic commonalities between research publications from current faculty in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Viewers can search for publications by department, faculty member, program affiliation, keyword, or year. The map can be viewed at uatlas.com/penn/sas

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Using AI to map research in the School of Arts & Sciences

Colin Twomey of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative applied a large language model to create a color-coded, interactive map of publications from current SAS faculty.
Showing up for Penn in London
Penn president J. Larry Jameson speaking at a microphone in London.

Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson addresses the audience at Penn’s academic symposium in London on Friday, June 21, 2024.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Giving)

Showing up for Penn in London

A capacity audience attended an academic symposium in London titled “Frontiers of Knowledge and Discovery: Leading in a Changing World.”