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Penn faculty Gustavo Aguirre, Jean Bennett, Albert Maguire, and Samuel Jacobson

Four from Penn awarded Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research

Faculty from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine were honored at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting in New Orleans.

Content marketing tactics to skyrocket your e-commerce business in 2023

Research by Jonah Berger and Katy Milkman of the Wharton School finds that content evoking emotions like awe, amusement, anxiety, and anger tends to be shared online the most.

Researchers finally figured out how long it really takes to form a new habit

A study co-authored by Katy Milkman of the Wharton School and Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences finds that there is no “magic number” of days for habit formation.

Brain wiring may be at root of eating disorders, according to study

A study co-authored by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine finds that the brain circuits involved in forming habits can essentially turn offline in people with eating disorders.

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Sonja Dümpelmann on designing nature

Sonja Dümpelmann, professor of landscape architecture, explores ‘the reciprocal relationship’ between humans and their environments.

Cutting-edge advances in cancer treatment are underway. Here are three that could change lives

Robert Vonderheide and Constantinos Koumenis of the Perelman School of Medicine discuss the major advancements occurring in cancer surgery and cancer radiation, two fundamental tools of cancer treatment.

The art of growing bald gracefully

A 2012 Wharton School study found that images of men with their hair digitally removed were perceived to be “more dominant, taller, and stronger” when compared to their original photographs.

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What do our ancestral family ties say about our political beliefs?

A new study from the Annenberg School for Communication finds that the stronger your ancestral family ties, the more likely you are to hold right-wing cultural policy preferences.

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Five from Penn elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023

Faculty from the School of Arts & Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Graduate School of Education, and Perelman School of Medicine are recognized this year for contributions to physics, engineering and technology, education, economics, and microbiology and immunology.

Who’s most likely to lose their job to AI?

A study by the Wharton School and OpenAI found that up to 80% of jobs in the U.S. could have at least 10% of their work affected by AI learning language models.

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