‘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.
Good By Design
Despite all evidence to the contrary, “the world is getting better,” argues physician and sociologist Nicholas Christakis. It’s in our genes.
Amazing Scientific Finding! (Wanna Bet?)
Taking bets on research replicability pays off.
Engineered Spinal Discs
Penn team implants engineered spinal discs in goats.
Five Yard Solution
Kickoff rule change cut concussions.
Penn and Slavery
New studies detail how Penn benefited from slavery.
Beyond Labor: A Missing Piece in the Immigration Debate
Wharton study: immigrants boost investment and entrepreneurship.
Economic Miracle—and Money Pit?
What’s wrong with the domestic Chinese stock market?
A New Oldest Star
Visiting researchers discover most distant star yet.