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Symposium highlights range and reach of Penn Global research
Panelists sit on a stage at Perry World House, while another is on a Zoom screen behind them

The 2022 Launch Symposium at Perry World House brought together faculty from eight of Penn’s 12 schools to share presentations on their projects that span the globe.

Symposium highlights range and reach of Penn Global research

The Penn Global Research and Engagement Grant is supporting 21 faculty-led projects that span research, capacity-building, and development efforts across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, India, China, and beyond.

Kristen de Groot

In the Galápagos, training community scientists to monitor water quality
Group poses in a tropical marine landscape holding a sign that reads Allianza para la Educaion e Investigacion en Galapagos

Under the umbrella of the Galápagos Education and Research Alliance, Penn Vet professor Daniel Beiting (far right) and others from Penn visited San Cristóbal Island in March, where they engaged students and scientists in water quality testing. (Image: Courtesy of Daniel Beiting)

In the Galápagos, training community scientists to monitor water quality

Both dense human populations and a plethora of wildlife can pose a challenge to marine and public health in the Galápagos Islands. With portable, user-friendly PCR technology, Penn faculty and students are training local scientists and school children to perform water quality research.

Katherine Unger Baillie

They’re all good dogs, and it has nothing to do with their breed
The New York Times

They’re all good dogs, and it has nothing to do with their breed

Cynthia Otto of the School of Veterinary Medicine comments that there are some big picture behavioral traits more common in some dog breeds than others, but the individual variation is high within a breed.

Correcting night blindness in dogs
Three panels show fluorescent images of therapeutic gene LRIT3, which corrects a form of night blindness

Correcting night blindness in dogs

Researchers in the School of Veterinary Medicine and colleagues have developed a gene therapy that restores dim-light vision in dogs with a congenital form of night blindness, offering hope for treating a similar condition in people.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Newly identified softshell turtle lived alongside T. rex and Triceratops
Illustration of ancient turtle in water with Tyrannosaurus walking on ground nearby

Newly identified softshell turtle lived alongside T. rex and Triceratops

Peter Dodson of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Steven Jasinski, who recently earned his doctorate from the School of Arts & Sciences, describe the find of a new softshell turtle from the end of the Cretaceous Period.

Katherine Unger Baillie

COVID in a cat
Orange cat sleeps on a blanket

COVID in a cat

A new report led by Elizabeth Lennon of the School of Veterinary Medicine and colleagues has confirmed what is believed to be the first published account of the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a house cat.

Katherine Unger Baillie

SARS-CoV-2 is moving between humans and wildlife around the U.S.
Four white-tailed deer in a snow-covered meadow

Recent research at Penn and elsewhere underscores that SARS-CoV-2 has jumped repeatedly between species during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

SARS-CoV-2 is moving between humans and wildlife around the U.S.

In humans the pandemic is showing signs of ebbing. In white-tailed deer and other wildlife, however, infections appear widespread.

Katherine Unger Baillie

A veterinarian’s take on vaccine hesitancy
Dean Andrew Hoffman at New Bolton Center campus

School of Veterinary Medicine Dean Andrew Hoffman.

(Image: Lisa Godfrey)

  • Q&A

    • A veterinarian’s take on vaccine hesitancy

    In a conversation with Penn Today, School of Veterinary Medicine Dean Andrew Hoffman shares his perspective on the important role veterinarians can play in supporting underserved communities.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Unusual pets
    WHYY (Philadelphia)

    Unusual pets

    James Serpell of the School of Veterinary Medicine was interviewed about the relationships between humans and animals. “At least with dogs, the evidence suggests that when they’re with people, they experience exactly the same kind of neurochemical changes in the brain that we experience when we’re with them,” he said.

    Revealing the mysterious biology of a fundamental process: reproduction
    Side by side images show abnormal clustering of chromosomes, labeled with florescent purple and yellow

    Revealing the mysterious biology of a fundamental process: reproduction

    New findings from the lab of P. Jeremy Wang in the School of Veterinary Medicine shed light on the cell division process that creates eggs and sperm, recurrent pregnancy loss, and the mechanism by which sperm move.

    Katherine Unger Baillie