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.
‘Re-Covering the Ney’
PhD candidate Juan Castrillón created an exhibition of classic reed flutes—and even with Van Pelt closed, you can still visit it online and watch him play one.
Milton Reads Shakespeare
How Claire M.L. Bourne’s Gr’13 essay helped unmask the famous 17th-century poet who marked up a copy of the Bard’s First Folio.
Journey to the Nobel
Gregg L. Semenza M’82 Gr’84 is a Nobel Prize winner.
Engineering Lands $25 Million for Data Science Building
$25 million to Engineering for new data science building.
Augmenting Reality
Will augmented reality change everything we see? A growing number of Penn alumni, staff, and faculty think so. And even as they bump up against its challenges and limitations, they’re still committed
to pulling AR further into our lives.
Natural Learners
Why do kids learn language so much better than adults?
Eye of the Beholder
Neuroaesthetics Center looks at how we feel about what we see.
Unleashing Hope
Drawing on groundbreaking immunotherapy techniques pioneered at Penn, the Vet School’s Nicola Mason is working toward a cure for bone cancer in dogs and children and to spark broader advances in the field of comparative medicine.