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Mapping the expanding cosmos: Dark Energy Survey unveils clearest picture yet
Terrestrial telescope in Chile under a starlit sky.

The Dark Energy Survey used a 570-megapixel camera mounted on the 4-metre Victor M. Blanco Telescope in Chile to image 5,000 square degrees of southern sky. The survey discovered more than 1,000 supernovae and mapped millions of galaxies to help astronomers better understand the accelerating expansion of our universe.

(Image: Courtesy of Dark Energy Survey Collaborative)

Mapping the expanding cosmos: Dark Energy Survey unveils clearest picture yet

The Dark Energy Survey collaborative, including Penn researchers, recently released an analysis that gives the clearest picture yet of how dark energy is driving the universe’s expansion and how matter—including galaxies and groups of galaxies—has been organized over cosmic time.

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How markets can help society adapt to climate change
People working on a laptop and a screen looking at climate initiatives.

Image: Kindamorphic via Getty Images

How markets can help society adapt to climate change

Environmental and labor economist R. Jisung Park co-authored a new paper reporting that carefully designed markets and supportive public policy can help individuals and communities more effectively approach climate adaptation.

From the School of Social Policy & Practice

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Engineers sharpen gene-editing tools to target cystic fibrosis
Engineering researchers at a whiteboard in the Gao lab.

Beyond cystic fibrosis, the refined base editor could help researchers tackle a wide range of genetic diseases caused by single-letter DNA changes.

(Image: Bella Ciervo)

Engineers sharpen gene-editing tools to target cystic fibrosis

Researchers at Penn Engineering have developed a modified base-pair editor that offers improved accuracy and could help treat diseases like cystic fibrosis.

Ian Scheffler

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Who, What, Why: Katelyn Candido on improving surgical procedures and keeping health care human-first
Katelyn Candido standing next to a wall, smiling and facing forward with arms crossed, wearing a white coat and blue scrubs in the Perelman School of Medicine

Katelyn Candido, a second-year medical student at PSOM and aspiring neurosurgeon, researches a novel tool’s utility for improving surgical precision. Informed by experiences as a first-generation Hispanic student, Candido also deeply values the human-centered side of medicine, helping drive equitable care in Philadelphia and beyond.

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  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Katelyn Candido on improving surgical procedures and keeping health care human-first

    Second-year medical student Katelyn Candido shares insight into her research project on a promising tool for improving surgical precision and efficiency, and why she aims to drive equitable patient care through a career in neurosurgery.

    3 min. read

    David Meaney on Penn’s research enterprise
    David Meaney leaning against a door in Penn's College Hall.

    David Meaney, Penn’s vice provost for research.

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    • David Meaney on Penn’s research enterprise

    Penn Today spoke with David Meaney, vice provost for research, about research at Penn—its current focus and plans for its growth and evolution in the continued quest to help make lives better.

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    Novel plant-based approach to a better, cheaper GLP-1 delivery system
    Three researchers in a greenhouse full of lettuce heads.

    Researchers, including Rahul Singh (left), in the Daniell lab’s greenhouse where the production of clinical grade transgenic lettuce occurs.

    (Image: Henry Daniell)

    Novel plant-based approach to a better, cheaper GLP-1 delivery system

    Research led by Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell investigates the use of a lettuce-based, plant-encapsulated delivery platform as a new oral delivery of two GLP-1 drugs previously approved by the FDA in injectable form.

    3 min. read

    How confidence changes consumer loyalty

    How confidence changes consumer loyalty

    New research from Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger explores how experience in a category shapes how confident consumers feel, which has important consequences for brands.

    Exploring Black America: A historian’s unique path of inquiry
    Marcia Chatelain

    Marcia Chatelain’s next book, coming out this fall, is a narrative history of the women who played roles in the 1963 March on Washington.

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    Exploring Black America: A historian’s unique path of inquiry

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marcia Chatelain, a Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies, takes a unique approach to history, from the impact of fast food to the leadership of the Civil Rights Movement.

    4 min. read

    Anthropomorphizing AI

    Anthropomorphizing AI

    Artificial intelligence doesn’t make decisions like a human, but according to research from Arts & Sciences economics professor Kevin He, people seem to think it does.

    From Omnia

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