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The Penn Dental Medicine Pride Alliance recently held its fourth annual Pride Celebration to celebrate its LGBTQIA+ Community. The Pride Celebration brings together faculty, staff, students, and alumni to celebrate diversity and build…

The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation (RAHF) announced $1.5 million in grants to support bold new programs addressing the health of marginalized populations. Two of the grant recipients are from Penn Nursing’s Department of Family and…

Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, has been named the Chair of a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee formed to identify emerging issues that are…

What role do the stages of sleep play in forming memories? “We’ve known for a long time that useful learning happens during sleep,” says University of Pennsylvania neuroscientist Anna Schapiro. “You encode new experiences while you’re…

President Liz Magill sat down for an inauguration day conversation with Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, discussing topics ranging from Kagan’s clerkship with Thurgood Marshall to the importance of the current court finding “common…

Philadelphia is potentially on the verge of crowning itself as the new city of champions with the Phillies set to play in their first World Series since 2009, the Eagles 6-0 and the NFL’s only undefeated team, and the Union holding the…

This year, Penn’s LGBT Center celebrates its 40th anniversary. The Center is the second oldest of its kind in the country, with its founding director, the late Robert Schoenberg, originally working out of the Student Activities office in…

Assisted reproduction has become an invaluable technique for horse owners hoping to pass on to another generation the characteristics of cherished and successful animals. But for decades, one of the most common methods used in assisted…

Overreliance on fossil fuels has led to a buildup of greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. But CO2 doesn’t only stay in the air; it also dissolves into the ocean, where it decreases the pH of the water and leads…

In the Carole Williams-Green Environmental Education and Exhibits Room in the Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Center (CCCEC), fishing poles line one wall, paintings of birds decorate another, and tables around the light-filled room…