News from

News Archive

Every story published by Penn Today—all in one place.
Reset All Filters
21022 Results
Tips for avoiding tiny ticks
Tick crawling up person's pant leg.

Penn Medicine’s Sharon Tsay explains how to avoid ticks, what to do if bitten, and how to recognize the early symptoms of tick-borne illnesses.

(Image: rbkomar via Getty Images)

Tips for avoiding tiny ticks

Sharon Tsay of the Perelman School of Medicine offers advice for enjoying tick-free outdoor fun.

4 min. read

Doylestown doctor advances care in Africa through compassionate collaboration

Doylestown doctor advances care in Africa through compassionate collaboration

Albert Ruenes, a urology doctor at Penn Medicine Doylestown Health, and Serigne Gueye, professor at Hospital General Idrissa Pouye in Senegal, have developed a powerful global partnership that’s transforming urologic care across West Africa.

How to enable public policy climate solutions

How to enable public policy climate solutions

When it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing carbon sinks, and promoting adaptation to a changing climate, solutions abound. Implementing these solutions through policy, however, is anything but simple.

From the Environmental Innovations Initiative

2 min. read

AI uncovers new antibiotics in ancient microbes
Cesar de la Fuente in his lab.

César de la Fuente (pictured) and his team used AI to study the proteins of hundreds of ancient microbes, searching for new antibiotic candidates.

(Image: Jianing Bai)

AI uncovers new antibiotics in ancient microbes

César de la Fuente uses AI to hunt for new antibiotic candidates in unlikely places, from the DNA of extinct organisms to the proteins of ancient microbes.

Ian Scheffler

2 min. read

Walking the walk with Penn’s VP of Business Services
Michael Scales.

nocred

Walking the walk with Penn’s VP of Business Services

A year into his role as vice president of Business Services, Michael Scales has built on the division’s “legacy of excellence” while being a sponge and getting to know students and staff around the division.

4 min. read

Who, What, Why: Third-year gets a taste of the film biz
Bea Hammam

nocred

Who, What, Why: Third-year gets a taste of the film biz

This summer Bea Hammam, a third-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, completed two internships with companies in the film industry, both founded by Penn alums.

3 min. read

Ngaatendwe Manyika: Helping to reshape renewable energy education
Lorena Grundy and Ngaatendwe Manyike kneel beside a miniature wind turbine.

Third-year student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science Ngaatendwe Manyika (right) of Harare, Zimbabwe, spent the summer working with Penn Engineering’s Lorena Grundy (left) to develop a new class, the Renewable Energy Technologies Lab, coming to Penn next fall.

nocred

Ngaatendwe Manyika: Helping to reshape renewable energy education

Third-year mechanical engineering student Ngaatendwe Manyika spent the summer working with practice assistant professor at Penn Engineering Lorena Grundy developing a new class, the Renewable Energy Technologies Lab coming to Penn next fall.

3 min. read