Embracing Digital Dentistry
The School of Dental Medicine is enhancing and integrating its digital capabilities, opening up new possibilities for training students, conducting research, and delivering seamless and cutting-edge patient care.
Research News
Focus On: Cancer Research
Penn Medicine cancer cell therapy pioneer Carl June named 2021 Dan David Prize Laureate
Take-at-home tests boost colorectal cancer screening tenfold
Patients in cancer remission at high risk for severe COVID-19 illness
Mutations commonly linked to breast cancer found to pose no increased risk
Joe Biden’s longtime ties to Penn
Focus On: Innovation
Focus On: Nanotechnology
Researchers identify potential nanoparticles for therapeutic mRNA delivery before birth
A new platform for creating material blends
Penn joins ‘cryo revolution’ by adding Nobel-winning microscope
Nanoparticles can turn off genes in bone marrow
Focus On: Robotics
Focus On: Artificial Intelligence
Benjamin Shestakofsky finds interconnections between humans and machines
Localizing epilepsy ‘hotspots’
Penn Engineering and Nursing partner with Hillrom on Internet-of-Things Technology
Wharton School announces new AI for Business initiative
AI technology in courts and administrative agencies
Focus On: Neuroscience
How do natural disasters shape the behavior and social networks of rhesus macaques?
The path to deeper connections, even amidst a pandemic
Study finds an increased risk of dementia from decades-old head injuries
Jason Karlawish on the science and history of Alzheimer’s
Study explores neurocognitive basis of bias against people who look different
Big Ideas
A look at a few of our big picture priorities that improve Penn as we create knowledge to benefit the world.
Dissecting chaos: An interdisciplinary look at the attack on the U.S. Capitol
Faculty from five schools at the University took part in a virtual panel discussion to unpack the policies, messages, and conditions that led to the events of Jan. 6.
Five questions about the new White House press secretary
In a Q&A, Barbie Zelizer of the Annenberg School for Communication discusses Jennifer Psaki’s first weeks on the job, plus what a shift back to a traditional press briefing means for journalism during the Biden presidency.
Mailing it in: Getting the word out on getting the ballots in
A new study by political scientists Daniel Hopkins and Marc Meredith shows an inexpensive postcard campaign can boost mail-in voting.
‘Traveling Black’
The professor of history’s new book explores the intertwined history of travel segregation and African American struggles for freedom of movement.
Systemic racism and its impact on health and wellness
The fifth of 13 conversations in Penn’s “Racism and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America” preceptorial highlighted racial health disparities and discussed policies that could support a more equitable future.
The influence and importance of language
Labels for what happened Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol were very different from those used to describe the Black Lives Matter movement or the 2020 election results. How much weight do individual words actually have? It depends on the context.
Charting a path forward with unifying definition of cytokine storm
Penn Medicine researchers have developed a unifying definition of “cytokine storm” to provide a framework to assess and treat patients whose immune systems have gone rogue.
Novel Dual CAR T cell immunotherapy promising for targeting the HIV reservoir
A new alteration to the way T cells are engineered has significant implications for using engineered T cells to fight both HIV and cancer.
A potential cause of CAR T side effects, and a path forward
Single cell sequencing aided researchers in identifying a previously undiscovered molecule in the brain.
Bringing the humanities into climate education
Senior Tsemone Ogbemi is sharing the important role of the arts in comprehending climate through her work at the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and in an environmental conference she is presenting at this week.
Report urges overall strategy for national security and climate crisis
The Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law and Annenberg Public Policy Center have released Lessons from the Arctic: The Need for Intersectoral Climate Security Policy, a report on critical climate-change security issues.
The outlook for science under the Biden-Harris administration
Penn Today spoke with experts in various areas of science and environmental policy about what they anticipate will shift now that President Biden has assumed the nation’s leadership.