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Penn to create a united Center for Civil Rights
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Penn to create a united Center for Civil Rights

The Center for Civil Rights will bring together three existing offices into a single team designed to strengthen Penn’s reporting, prevention, education, and response efforts related to civil rights.

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Exploring popular culture and entertainment in 1920s Cairo

Exploring popular culture and entertainment in 1920s Cairo

A number of periodicals cropped up in 1920s Cairo that offered artistic critique, gossip, and cultural commentary, and several are available digitally and in person at the Penn Libraries.

AI education for kids
A student experimenting with a handheld STEM project in a classroom.

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AI education for kids

An interdisciplinary seminar at Penn’s Graduate School of Education explores how students can design, critique, and teach AI and machine learning in K–12 education.

From Penn GSE

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To deliver hospital-level care at home, practice makes perfect
Nurses practice how to talk to patients about properly storing medications

Nurses practice how to talk to patients about properly storing medications while they are enrolled in Hospital at Home.

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To deliver hospital-level care at home, practice makes perfect

Years of planning come to fruition as Penn Medicine’s Hospital at Home teams test run a new era of patient care devoted to better outcomes and fewer readmissions.

From Penn Medicine News

2 min. read

Why is everything gambling now?
Hand holding a mobile phone with sports bets lined up.

Over the last decade, there’s been an explosion in phone-based gambling platforms owing to the 2018 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a federal sports betting ban. Neuroscientist Michael L. Platt says the gambling boom has as much to do with human biology as it does business. 

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Why is everything gambling now?

Neuroscientist Michael Platt discusses the biological basis of gambling as it relates to the over proliferation of gambling-based platforms.

5 min. read

AI and healthcare innovation: Design with us, not just for us

AI and healthcare innovation: Design with us, not just for us

In May, Penn Washington partnered with the Penn Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory for Healthy Aging and Penn Nursing to examine the use of Artificial Intelligence tools to support aging and improve the quality of life of older adults and their families, including persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

How personalized AI tutors can help students learn

How personalized AI tutors can help students learn

New Wharton research reveals how small design changes can make AI tutoring more effective by emulating the most effective practices of human instructors.

 A home away from home for transplant patients and families
Penn’s Transplant House outdoor entrance.

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 A home away from home for transplant patients and families

Penn’s Clyde F. Barker Penn Transplant House offers a comforting and affordable refuge for transplant patients and families—with community and hope.

Matt Toal

2 min. read

An AI tool to speed antibiotic discovery
Jacob R. Gardner, César de la Fuente and Marcelo Torres, holding a 3D-printed example of the kind of antibiotic peptide they generated

(From left) Co-authors Jacob R. Gardner, César de la Fuente and Marcelo Torres, holding a 3D-printed example of the kind of antibiotic peptide they generated using AI.

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An AI tool to speed antibiotic discovery

APEX is an AI model that predicts whether or not a given peptide is likely to have antimicrobial properties. Now, APEXGo can identify antibiotic candidates with laboratory activity against disease-causing bacteria, simply by searching large datasets.

Ian Scheffler

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