Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
From the classroom to the international stage
At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, Penn students perform a play they learned in class.
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Something for everyone at Penn’s Friends and Family Day
Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry positions Penn as a leader in engineering health
Out this week: Emily Wilson’s ‘The Iliad’
This season’s flu and COVID-19 vaccines
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Five factors that assess well-being of science predict support for science funding
From the classroom to the international stage
Working to understand and prevent intimate partner violence
Marking a monumental death
Out this week: Emily Wilson’s ‘The Iliad’
Conflicts and cultural evolution: All for one and one for all?
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What’s That? Locust Walk Compass
Penn Museum excavation designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site
The crisis of climate-driven extinction
Something for everyone at Penn’s Friends and Family Day
Brigitte Weinsteiger appointed interim director of the Penn Libraries
Deans of health schools discuss climate change in their fields
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How to encourage student attendance
Is ChatGPT a better entrepreneur than most?
A call for less talk and more action on luxury emissions
Who, What, Why: Literacy advocate Meresa García
Why stock valuation hinges more on returns than future earnings
Trading decisions are observable in the eyes of buyers and sellers
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An mRNA vaccine against Lyme disease-causing bacteria
The best way to prevent HIV is often out of reach for women and marginalized people
This season’s flu and COVID-19 vaccines
The immune health future, today
Spiritual coping behaviors may be key to enhanced trauma recovery of Black men who survive firearm injury
Inflammatory bowel disease linked to atopic dermatitis
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Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry positions Penn as a leader in engineering health
Decoding acoustic objects
Engineering changemakers: Honoring Cora Ingrum and Donna Hampton
A suit of armor for cancer-fighting cells
Biophysics summer school in Crete
A low-cost, eco-friendly COVID test
Health Sciences
The immune health future, today
Breaking the code of the immune system could provide a new fundamental way of understanding, treating, and preventing every type of disease. Penn Medicine is investing in key discoveries about immunity and immune system function, and building infrastructure, to make that bold idea a reality.
Upcoming Events
Methods Matter
In a series of panel discussions, hosted by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics, experts gather to critically explore the current state of health research regarding known sources of structural and institutional racism and their links to health.
Special Events
Friends and Family Day
Penn Friends and Family Day returns for its 29th year. Faculty, staff, and postdocs are invited to a day of football, food, and fun, with up to four free tickets for the tailgate party and football game.
Exhibits
HEEL: A Performance
Dancer, composer, and movement educator Sigrid Lauren activates a sculpture by exhibiting artist at the ICA, Hannah Levy. The performance is part of the Moveables exhibit, on display through Dec. 17.
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