Campus & Community

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. 

Even before coming to the University of Pennsylvania, Hannah Fagin knew she wanted to study the humanities, but she knew she had found her major after her first history course at Penn, “History of the American South.” 

Politicians’ race-conscious speeches have broad, and sometimes unexpected, consequences, according to a new book from Daniel Gillion of the University of Pennsylvania. 

Ever wonder what goes into designing and organizing an art exhibition? Through a new educational talk series, the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania (ICA) is sharing its behind-the-scenes knowledge with curious visitors.

Just like people, dogs that are critically ill or hospitalized are at a heightened risk of blood clots. Yet veterinarians have few reliable tools to diagnose animals that are prone to developing a potentially life-threatening clot.

On May 18, Mayor Jim Kenney inaugurated a North Philadelphia playground that only months earlier had been a crumbling parking lot rife with weeds and litter. Through efforts spearheaded by several members of the Penn art and design community, the lot was transformed into a lush, colorful schoolyard.

[youtube]VfxydqTjJC0[/youtube]Ask someone to draw a picture of a cutting-edge robotic arm and he or she will likely take inspiration from the one hanging from his or her shoulder: the same muscles, elbow, wrist, and fingers, with wires and servos replacing sinew and bone.