The New Climate Advocates
From mayors and MBAs to lawyers and landscape architects, the face of climate change activism is changing. At Penn, a mix of pragmatic thinking and visionary ambition has sparked a sense that what is urgent might also be achievable.
Emergency Measures
1.5 Minute Lecture series highlights climate emergency.
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.
Legal Aid for Climatologists
Lauren Kurtz L’10 G’12 defends climate science and climate scientists.
Sea Lion Diplomacy
High schoolers mediate human-sea lion coexistence.
Unconditional Pavlov
Daniel Todes spent 25 years researching and writing his epochal biography of Ivan Pavlov. The result is a science historian’s answer to Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Dr. Zhivago.
Science! Science! Sis Boom Bah!
Darlene Cavalier CGS’05 is a cheerleader for science.
Wistar Insitute finds that the immune system can fight AIDS, if it’s given a boost
A team of researchers led by Penn’s Wistar Institute have shown in a clinical trial that HIV-infected patients can fight off the virus by themselves if their immune system is given a boost.
Reprogrammed Immune Cells Vanquish Cancer in Promising Breakthrough
T-cell “serial killers” offer new hope for cancer treatment
Some Teams Could Use This Guy …
PhillieBot throws out first pitch.
Pop Neuroscience With David Brooks
David Brooks on the mysteries of perception.
Untangling Alzheimer’s
A remarkable collection of Penn scientists, led by Virginia Lee and John Trojanowski, is attacking the merciless affliction known as Alzheimer’s, along with other neurodegenerative diseases. But the clock is ticking.
A Celebration of Science
Gerri Trooskin EAS’02 SPP’06 is leading Philly’s science celebration.
Presidential Bioethics Commission Comes to Penn
Synthetic life “not a novel thing” says Bioethics Commission witness.
Paleo Portraiture
Emma Schachner Gr’16 studies fossils—and draws them, too