13+ hour, 21+ min ago   (143+ words) A team of researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine have developed a “scaffold” that mimics natural tissue and could lead to more durable rotator cuff repairs, including for large injuries and cases involving bone and tissue degeneration that are…...

13+ hour, 17+ min ago   (288+ words) Can teaching teenage girls how to negotiate help them stay in school, marry later, and form more equal relationships? The answer appears to be yes—and those gains add up to strong economic returns for each dollar of public spending....

13+ hour, 1+ min ago   (293+ words) When engineers look to nature for inspiration, they often turn to living systems. The flight of birds has influenced aircraft design, gecko feet inspired new adhesives, and lotus leaves led to the development of self-cleaning surfaces. Researchers at Penn now…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (371+ words) Developed in the open fields of West Philadelphia in the 1870s, the Penn campus now has more than 180 buildings across approximately 300 acres. This includes almost 100 acres of maintained landscapes like refined open lawns, gardens, and athletic fields with upwards of 6,200 trees…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (150+ words) As a child, Vaughn Booker recalls asking his parents about all those letters in front of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s name. One set, they told him, meant that King was a minister, the other that he had…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (428+ words) A new Penn-led randomized controlled trial has found that AI-powered chatbots can make vaccine-hesitant parents more likely to say they will immunize their children against human papillomavirus (HPV), but no more than standard written public health materials. Described in a…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (203+ words) For many teenagers, the hardest part of the school day may begin well before the first bell rings: waking up when their brains are still wired for sleep. Sleep experts have long argued that middle and high schools should start…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (572+ words) All journeys start somewhere. For the Class of 2030 and new transfer students, it began on Franklin Field during a comfortable late-summer evening—a class of 2,427 first-years from 76 countries surrounded by faculty, staff, and classmates who’ve gone from strangers to fellow…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (142+ words) A new report by Penn Institute for Urban Research faculty fellow John Landis offers a comprehensive assessment of how well state and local governments have advanced sustainable development over the past quarter century. This is the first study to combine…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (437+ words) When she was in high school, third-year Renee Liu of the School of Engineering and Applied Science found purpose, confidence, and empowerment in a formative extracurricular activity: speech and debate. “I wouldn’t be here today without speech and debate,” says…...