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Blowing Up Proteins
Graduate student Beatrice Markiewicz is using novel techniques to disassemble the amyloid proteins responsible for diseases like Alzheimer’s.
A Q&A With Penn’s Newest Rhodes Scholar
Rutendo Chigora, C’15, talks about her plans and her social venture in Zimbabwe.
A Critical Look at the Human Rights Council (Video)
Undergraduate Benjamin Fogel examines the effectiveness of the United Nations’ efforts.
Penn Introduces Native American and Indigenous Studies Minor
Assistant Professor Margaret Bruchac is building an interdisciplinary program on long-term strengths.
Intellectual Bootcamp
The Center for Africana Studies Summer Institute for Pre-Freshmen opens minds—and doors.
See Psittacosaurus Run
Graduate student Brandon Hedrick is using statistics to show how dinosaurs looked, moved, and evolved.
Social Media and War (Video)
Wing So, C'16, examines social media’s impact on war.
Prison and Health
Graduate student Valerio Bacak gathers evidence for better criminal justice penalties.
Seeing the World
Undergraduate Leah Davidson uses the visual arts to energize environmentalism.
Knowledge Vault
Sophomore Brianna Krejci investigates the cemeteries of historic Germantown.
Keeping Science Fun
Doctoral students Kelsey VanGelder and Lyndsay Wood found science learning program for local students.
Music Making
Doctoral candidate Osei Alleyne follows a musical path across the Atlantic from Africa—and back.
The Science of Ethics
Doctoral student Justin Landy studies stressful decision-making scenarios.
Where Science and Fiction Intersect
English graduate student Jason Zuzga’s summer course tackles aliens, monsters, and what it means to be human.
Survey Says...
Undergraduates look under the hood of democracy in the new Penn Program for Opinion Research and Election Studies.