Uniting passions for architecture, preservation, and the Near East Sixth-year Ph.D. student Marc Marín Webb of the School of Arts & Sciences in his home city of Barcelona, while waiting for a visa to travel to Iraq where he is researching the built heritage of the Yezidi community.(Image: Courtesy of Marc Marín Webb) Uniting passions for architecture, preservation, and the Near East Marc Marín Webb, who studied architecture in Berlin and Barcelona, is studying the impact of genocide on the built heritage of the Yezidi community in Iraq.
Nurses across the U.S. cite employer failures as their top reason for leaving Image: Adobe stock Nurses across the U.S. cite employer failures as their top reason for leaving A new Penn Nursing study highlights the fact that health care employers could retain more nurses through solutions that enhance nurses’ work-life balance.
Impressionism and the modernization of time Claude Monet’s The Japanese Footbridge, 1899.(Image: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) Impressionism and the modernization of time A new book from history of art professor André Dombrowski knits together the works of artists like Claude Monet and the nature of time as it emerges in its present-day form.
Bringing cognitive science in action to young minds A Penn Upward Bound high school student observed brown-headed cowbird behavior at the Penn Smart Aviary.nocred Bringing cognitive science in action to young minds Penn Upward Bound high school students from West Philadelphia got a tour of the Penn Smart Aviary, GRASP Lab, and the Penn Vet Working Dog Center during a visit to Pennovation Works.
There’s still no standard test to detect pancreatic cancer early. Scientists are working to change that Penn In the News CNN There’s still no standard test to detect pancreatic cancer early. Scientists are working to change that A 2020 study from the Perelman School of Medicine found that a blood test to screen for certain biomarkers associated with pancreatic cancer was 92% accurate in its ability to detect disease. Hedge funder famous for his ‘black swan’ strategy says there’s ‘something immoral’ about America’s reliance on debt—and future generations ‘will bear the burden for this’ Penn In the News Fortune Hedge funder famous for his ‘black swan’ strategy says there’s ‘something immoral’ about America’s reliance on debt—and future generations ‘will bear the burden for this’ A 2023 study by the Wharton School found that the U.S. has about 20 years left for corrective action to fix the national debt before it hits 200% of GDP. Teaching doglike robots to walk on the moon’s dusty, icy surface Penn researchers are part of a collaborative multidisciplinary effort that’s preparing doglike robots to traverse extraterrestrial landscapes, like those that are analogous to the moon’s surface. (Image: Courtesy of Sean Grasso) Teaching doglike robots to walk on the moon’s dusty, icy surface Researchers from Penn are part of a NASA-funded multidisciplinary collaborative effort that’s teaching robots to navigate the extraterrestrial craters, like the moon and Mars. A hopeful time for Cryptosporidium research A lot of research progress has been over the past decade on Cryptosporidium, a single-celled parasite that is one of the leading causes of deadly diarrheal disease, and Penn Vet professors brought together researchers and clinicians from around the world for a conference. (Image: Muthgapatti Kandasamy and Boris Striepen) A hopeful time for Cryptosporidium research Boris Striepen of Penn Vet organized the First Biennial Cryptosporidium Meeting, bringing together researchers and clinicians from around the world to discuss the problems and progress around the parasite and the diarrheal disease it causes. A novel technique to form human artificial chromosomes Image: iStock/Mohammed Haneefa Nizamudeen A novel technique to form human artificial chromosomes Penn researchers say the new technique for making human artificial chromosomes from single, long constructs of designer DNA will allow for more efficient laboratory research. The stories of a war-scarred Colombian rainforest Aerial view of the torrential rivers of the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Putumayo. (Image: Daniel Mendieta Giraldo) The stories of a war-scarred Colombian rainforest Through her research, Kristina Lyons, associate professor of anthropology, is relaying the tales of the land’s suffering, as well as its enduring practical and spiritual importance to its residents. Load More
Hedge funder famous for his ‘black swan’ strategy says there’s ‘something immoral’ about America’s reliance on debt—and future generations ‘will bear the burden for this’ Penn In the News Fortune Hedge funder famous for his ‘black swan’ strategy says there’s ‘something immoral’ about America’s reliance on debt—and future generations ‘will bear the burden for this’ A 2023 study by the Wharton School found that the U.S. has about 20 years left for corrective action to fix the national debt before it hits 200% of GDP. Teaching doglike robots to walk on the moon’s dusty, icy surface Penn researchers are part of a collaborative multidisciplinary effort that’s preparing doglike robots to traverse extraterrestrial landscapes, like those that are analogous to the moon’s surface. (Image: Courtesy of Sean Grasso) Teaching doglike robots to walk on the moon’s dusty, icy surface Researchers from Penn are part of a NASA-funded multidisciplinary collaborative effort that’s teaching robots to navigate the extraterrestrial craters, like the moon and Mars. A hopeful time for Cryptosporidium research A lot of research progress has been over the past decade on Cryptosporidium, a single-celled parasite that is one of the leading causes of deadly diarrheal disease, and Penn Vet professors brought together researchers and clinicians from around the world for a conference. (Image: Muthgapatti Kandasamy and Boris Striepen) A hopeful time for Cryptosporidium research Boris Striepen of Penn Vet organized the First Biennial Cryptosporidium Meeting, bringing together researchers and clinicians from around the world to discuss the problems and progress around the parasite and the diarrheal disease it causes. A novel technique to form human artificial chromosomes Image: iStock/Mohammed Haneefa Nizamudeen A novel technique to form human artificial chromosomes Penn researchers say the new technique for making human artificial chromosomes from single, long constructs of designer DNA will allow for more efficient laboratory research. The stories of a war-scarred Colombian rainforest Aerial view of the torrential rivers of the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Putumayo. (Image: Daniel Mendieta Giraldo) The stories of a war-scarred Colombian rainforest Through her research, Kristina Lyons, associate professor of anthropology, is relaying the tales of the land’s suffering, as well as its enduring practical and spiritual importance to its residents.
Teaching doglike robots to walk on the moon’s dusty, icy surface Penn researchers are part of a collaborative multidisciplinary effort that’s preparing doglike robots to traverse extraterrestrial landscapes, like those that are analogous to the moon’s surface. (Image: Courtesy of Sean Grasso) Teaching doglike robots to walk on the moon’s dusty, icy surface Researchers from Penn are part of a NASA-funded multidisciplinary collaborative effort that’s teaching robots to navigate the extraterrestrial craters, like the moon and Mars.
A hopeful time for Cryptosporidium research A lot of research progress has been over the past decade on Cryptosporidium, a single-celled parasite that is one of the leading causes of deadly diarrheal disease, and Penn Vet professors brought together researchers and clinicians from around the world for a conference. (Image: Muthgapatti Kandasamy and Boris Striepen) A hopeful time for Cryptosporidium research Boris Striepen of Penn Vet organized the First Biennial Cryptosporidium Meeting, bringing together researchers and clinicians from around the world to discuss the problems and progress around the parasite and the diarrheal disease it causes.
A novel technique to form human artificial chromosomes Image: iStock/Mohammed Haneefa Nizamudeen A novel technique to form human artificial chromosomes Penn researchers say the new technique for making human artificial chromosomes from single, long constructs of designer DNA will allow for more efficient laboratory research.
The stories of a war-scarred Colombian rainforest Aerial view of the torrential rivers of the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Putumayo. (Image: Daniel Mendieta Giraldo) The stories of a war-scarred Colombian rainforest Through her research, Kristina Lyons, associate professor of anthropology, is relaying the tales of the land’s suffering, as well as its enduring practical and spiritual importance to its residents.