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Advice-giving benefits the person sharing guidance
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  • Q&A

    • Advice-giving benefits the person sharing guidance

    In a Q&A, Wharton postdoc Lauren Eskreis-Winkler discusses new findings that signal it may be time to shift how we think about motivation and achievement.

    Michele W. Berger

    The next generation of optical communication with nanophotonics
    a person adjusting a lens on an optics table

    First-year graduate student Valerie Yoshioka collects optical measurements of atomically-thin materials in the Zhen laboratory. 

    The next generation of optical communication with nanophotonics

    Research from the lab of Bo Zhen is pushing the boundaries of optics by using fundamental physics to address many of the real-world challenges faced by engineers.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    A physical model for forming patterns in pollen
    Pollen structure types illustration

    Four sets of pollen grains (from top left to bottom right: Alisma lanceolatum, Galium wirtgenii, Gaillardia aristata, Gomphrena globosa), showing the scanning electron microscopy image alongside the simulation of the physical model for the same geometry (Image credit: PalDat.org (SEM image) and Asja Radja (simulation)).

    A physical model for forming patterns in pollen

    Physicists have developed a model that describes how patterns form on pollen spores, the first physically rigorous framework that details the thermodynamic processes that lead to complex biological architectures.

    Erica K. Brockmeier , Erica K. Brockmeier

    Up, up, and away
    BLAST telescope with Mark Devlin and students

    As the project manager of the $100 million Simons Observatory project, Devlin (center) is working to keep the numerous and disparate components of the project from falling behind due to pandemic-related shutdowns while recognizing that some delays and disruptions will be inevitable. His advice is to not “sweat the small stuff.” (Pre-pandemic image)

    Up, up, and away

    Mark Devlin and his team behind BLAST are about to embark on another scientific adventure in Antarctica, this time measuring how stars form in our galaxy.

    Lauren Hertzler

    How do individual decisions affect group decisions?
    Colin Twomey in labratory

    Colin Twomey studies how groups, both human and animal, make collective decisions. His research covers a variety of topics, including fish behavior and human color perception.

    How do individual decisions affect group decisions?

    Postdoctoral fellow Colin Twomey looks to fish behavior to explore the dynamic between individual and group decision-making.

    Jacob Williamson-Rea

    Extreme weather won’t sway climate skeptics
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    Extreme weather won’t sway climate skeptics

    Experiencing extreme weather is not enough to convince climate change skeptics that humans are damaging the environment, according to a new study based on research at the Annenberg Public Policy Center.

    Penn Today Staff

    Becoming a mother reduces a woman’s earning potential by up to 10 percent per child
    Florian stands in front of tree with autumn leaves

    Florian explains that though maternity leave doesn't last long, it has a long-lasting and unfair impact on mothers' careers.

  • Q&A

    • Becoming a mother reduces a woman’s earning potential by up to 10 percent per child

    In a Q&A, Sandra Florian, a postdoctoral fellow in sociology and the Population Studies Center, discusses motherhood’s short- and long-term effects on a woman’s career.

    Jacob Williamson-Rea

    Stains Alive
    Penn Libraries Fellow Erin Connelly is part of the Stains Alive research project.

    Penn Libraries fellow Erin Connelly (left) and colleague Alberto Campagnolo, of the Library of Congress, prepare a medieval manuscript for multispectral imaging at Penn as part of a national research project to analyze stains. (Photo by Eric Sucar)

     

    Stains Alive

    For Libraries fellow Erin Connelly, stains are some of the most exciting discoveries in her study of medieval manuscripts. She is part of a national team analyzing stains in medieval texts using modern multispectral imaging. An exhibition at Van Pelt-Dietrich Library displays the researchers’ discoveries.

    Louisa Shepard , Louisa Shepard