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Mosquitoes are just as synonymous with summer as flip-flops, beach days, and cold drinks. This year, the pesky critters—although tiny in nature—are making an even bigger splash than usual. It’s all because of Zika, a virus that has for the past year taken the tropics by storm.

The University of Pennsylvania has co-founded and structured BluePen Biomarkers in collaboration with BluePrint Bio, Inc. and Emerald Logic, Inc. to conduct biomarker research and identification.  BluePen is creating a comprehensive biomarker measurement and discovery pipeline for the acceleration of personalized medicine.

Penn President Amy Gutmann warmly welcomed this year’s incoming students with a 106th Convocation address that told of the opportunities for “endless discovery” and profound personal transformation awaiting them at Pen

More than 3 million people drive trucks in the United States. In fact, according to Steve Viscelli, author of “The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream” and a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, it’s the No. 1 occupation in 37 of 50 states.

Sometimes those who are most creative have the messiest minds.

A team of Penn doctors and engineers has been awarded a $100,000 grant to develop an unusual new way of diagnosing tuberculosis (TB): ringing the bacteria that cause the disease like a bell.  

Boyang Qin, a third-year Ph.D. student, stands on stage in the Benjamin Franklin Room of the University of Pennsylvania’s Houston Hall in front of 50 high school students and parents.

With the hopes that their children would receive a better education, the parents of University of Pennsylvania student Alisha Chowdhury left Bangladesh the year before she was born and settled in New Orleans. 

Through the generosity of alumni and others in the entertainment industry, seven University of Pennsylvania students in the Cinema and Media Studies program have the opportunity this summer to intern at film, television and digital media companies.