Chasing Every Cure
When David Fajgenbaum M’13 WG’15 unlocked his own treatment after being diagnosed with a rare disease, he saved his life. Now he has his sights on a higher purpose that’s bringing hope to millions.
Universities Targeted
Executive orders target universities including Penn.
Joy in Mudville
Analyzing the “magic” that makes the mud used by MLB.
Cultivating Crop Resilience
Plant ARC aims to prepare crops for climate change.
Demographic Winter Is Coming
Sounding the alarm about a shrinking world population.
The Newcomer Dividend
Wharton’s Zeke Hernandez hopes to bend the immigration debate toward a question rooted in his own research on capital investment and business formation: What do natives stand to gain?
Making Things Happen
Over the decade since it was launched as a “one-stop shop” for Penn faculty and programs seeking to translate research into products—and with a big help from two blockbuster discoveries—the Penn Center for Innovation has achieved record revenues and made the University a leader in forging partnerships “to move ideas from the inside to the outside.”
Going Viral
Arthur Kuan C’12’s company is pursuing a breakthrough cancer treatment.
Nobel Cause
mRNA researchers Kariko and Weissman win Nobel Prize.
Carl June Wins Breakthrough Prize
Carl June awarded 2024 Breakthrough Prize for CAR T cell therapy.
Insulin by the Leaf
Latest advance toward growing insulin in lettuce plants.
Mann in the Middle
Michael E. Mann has been a central figure in the battle for the environment since the “hockey stick” graph made him a target for climate change deniers 25 years ago. Now on Penn’s faculty and heading the Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media, he’s fending off a new generation of “inactivists” comprised of climate change deflectors on the right and doomists on the left to get out the message that it’s still within our power to save the planet.
Battling a Binging Brain
In pilot study, deep brain stimulation curbed binge eating.
Research Briefs
Extreme heat and mortality, COVID reservoirs in deer.
Hidden Pain
Penn professor coauthored a report on the grieving children of the pandemic.
CURF at 20
Two decades after its founding, Penn’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships continues to be “for everyone.”
Ice Woman
Food safety pioneer Mary Engle Pennington Gr1895.
Penn Announces Five-Year, $750 Million Investment
$750 million committed for faculty and facilities.
Two Apologies, and a Reckoning Over Human Remains
Apologies issued over treatment of human remains.
Fighting Poverty With Cash
Several decades since the last big income experiment was conducted in the US, School of Social Policy & Practice assistant professor Amy Castro Baker has helped deliver promising data out of Stockton, California, about the effects of giving people no-strings-attached money every month. Now boosted by a new research center at Penn that she’ll colead, more cities are jumping on board to see if guaranteed income can lift their residents out of poverty. Will it work? And will policymakers listen?
The Vaccine Trenches
Key breakthroughs leading to the powerful mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 were forged at Penn. That triumph was almost 50 years in the making, longer on obstacles than celebration, and the COVID-19 vaccines may only be the beginning of its impact on 21st-century medicine.
Webside Manner
Virtual healthcare by smartphone or computer helps physicians consult with and diagnose patients much more quickly, while offering them convenience and flexibility. The potential to save lives and improve efficiencies is tremendous. But can uncertain regulations and reimbursements, equity and access disparities, and shaky internet connections be surmounted?
New Era Dawning
Orphan Disease Center looks to a new era of advances.
Sniffing Out an Invader
Penn Vet is training dogs to sniff out spotted lanternfly eggs.