With Project SHARPE, Amalia Daché of Penn GSE co-leads the research initiative probing slavery history and reparations in post-secondary education through qualitative and quantitative work.
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Survey data from APPC Penn shows that people exposed to extreme weather are more likely to support policies to mitigate the effects of climate change and that more than 6 in 10 people favor greater investment in energy-efficient public transportation.
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Penn welcomed three world leaders to campus in recent weeks. Africana Studies at Penn hosted the president of Sierra Leone and a former president of South Africa, while Perry World House had a conversation with a former leader of Peru.
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Wale Adebanwi and Deborah A. Thomas of Penn Arts & Sciences have been named 2024 GuggenheimFoundation. Adebanwi and Thomas were among 188 people chosen from nearly 3,000 U.S. and Canadian applicants working across 52 disciplines.
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A Penn Medicine study points to ways to reduce potential for racial bias and inequity when using algorithms to inform clinical care.
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Roger Greenberg of Penn Medicine and colleagues have identified a multi-protein mechanism in cells that governs the pausing or stopping of DNA replication to ensure its smooth progress. Their discovery helps explain a puzzling set of genetic diseases.
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UMOJA, an umbrella organization for Black student life on campus, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The group’s primary role is collaboration and advocacy, says Shannon Brooks, a third-year student in The Wharton School.
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.Penn Engineering’ Penn Electric Racing team unveiled its latest creation: REV9. It’s the 10th car produced by the student-run club that’s been designed to compete in the annual Formula Society of Automotive Engineers Michigan race.

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In conversation with The Philadelphia Inquirer, Michael Mitchell of Penn Engineering discusses how his research in lipid nanoparticles is advancing messenger RNA technology to tackle different diseases by enhancing delivery mechanisms.
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On IMFPodcast, Olivia Mitchell of The Wharton School discusses economic challenges for Americans planning early retirement. “The shortfalls in social security and potentially Medicare will be very painful for women in particular,” she says.
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Minority patients being treated for B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma may not have equal access to cutting-edge CAR T cell therapies, according to new research led by Penn Medicine.
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As the newly appointed executive director of student health and counseling, Patricia M. Ruiz will lead the student-facing clinical team and oversee medical care and behavioral health services.
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In a keynote for the Quattrone Center’s 2024 spring symposium at University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt anchor Lester Holt and Dateline NBC producer Dan Slepian discussed their efforts to shine a light on the issues of mass incarceration and criminal justice reform.
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Penn Upward Bound high school students from West Philadelphia visited Pennovation Works, where they got to see cognitive science in action at the Penn Smart Aviary, GRASP Laboratory, and Penn Vet Working Dog Center (@PennVetWDC).

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In a blog post for Kleinman Energy at the Weitzman School of Design at Penn, The Wharton School second-year Lukas Van Koch reports on a Houston conference where panelists discussed how Colombia and Venezuela can approach an energy transition while maintaining economic development.
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A Penn team has created guidelines and a best practices overview for incorporating equity and diversity into the research process outlined in a new paper published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine). Penn LDI
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Anthropologist Kristina Lyons has been visiting the Amazon for more than 20 years. In her book “Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics,” Lyons presents an ethnography of human-soil relations.
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Breakthrough research from Penn Medicine has paved the way in bypassing a common stumbling block in the development of human artificial chromosomes, potentially enhancing gene therapies and biotechnical lab applications.
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In an interview with Spain’s El País English Edition, ethnographer Kristen Ghodsee of Penn Arts & Sciences discussed her book “Everyday Utopia.” She explores how utopia is “an incredibly productive concept for us to think about different ways of living in the world.”
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