Warning: Robot Construction Ahead
Meet the quadrotor, a four-propeller helicopter-style creature that lately has been whizzing around Penn’s GRASP robotics lab with increasing sophistication.
Hope for the thinning crowd
Back in 1992, when Dr. George Cotsarelis landed a research fellowship looking at cancer amidst scalp stem cells, he didn’t expect to stumble on a treatment for male pattern baldness.
New Doors to Invention
From College Hall | Student research projects develop critical skills—and could change the world.
$15 Million Gift to Expand Retailing Center
$15 million gift will endow Baker Retailing Center
The Ethics of Early Intersex Intervention
Brownlee lecturer: “Should we be afraid of big clitorises?”
On Hearths, Ancient and Modern
In which the author takes a break from the rigors of her own ethnographic research in France’s Dordogne region to visit with eminent Penn archaeologist Harold Dibble as he plumbs the mysteries of early human and Neandertal behavior—and plots his next gourmet meal.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Ei-ichi Negishi Gr’63 shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
A Double Reward
A program at the School of Veterinary Medicine provides free surgery and follow-up care to shelter dogs with mammary tumors and matches them with willing owners, while also collecting data that could advance treatment of human breast cancers.
Turning the Tables on BRCA-related Breast Cancer
Novel drug treatment may shrink breast-cancer tumors.
Taking the Morality Out of Abstinence Sex-Ed
In abstinence education, pragmatism beats moral argument
Alone Together
Vivian Seltzer has spent decades developing and testing a theory that she believes is “the first roadmap through adolescence.”
Findings
Stories Behind the Stories Edition
Tiny Solutions, Big Implications
Randy Snurr EAS’88
The Power of Choice
Sheena Iyengar W’92 C’92
Vision Shot
Eye-opening advance in gene therapy
Findings
Rethinking Depression Treatment, BlackBerry Nation, and the Cholesterol Cure
Findings
Sharpen Up, Sleepyhead; Eat Your Broccoli, Already; and The Water Is High
Music Appreciation for Monkeys
Charles Snowdon Gr’68
Are Better Brains Better?
Penn neuroscientists Martha Farah and Anjan Chatterjee believe the answer is more complicated than you think.
Blowing Yesterday’s Cigarette Smoke Into Today’s Healthcare Debate
Blame smoking, not system, for Americans’ poor health outcomes
Will Do Science for Stimulus Money
Stimulus funds support student research
Findings
The Population Fertility Curve, Better Baboon Moms, and the Homeownership Blues
Female Happiness: On the Skids?
What do women have against happiness?
Penn Team Nabs Celebrity Cancer Grant
Penn-led team awarded $18 million by Stand Up to Cancer