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Cindy Sako: Empowering Philadelphia to learn CPR 
Cindy Sako

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Cindy Sako: Empowering Philadelphia to learn CPR 

Cindy Sako leads free classes through the Mobile CPR Project, building partnerships throughout Philadelphia to equip community members with CPR skills.

How confidence changes consumer loyalty

How confidence changes consumer loyalty

New research from Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger explores how experience in a category shapes how confident consumers feel, which has important consequences for brands.

Oji, Abinusawa dominate Ivy League indoor track and field championships

Oji, Abinusawa dominate Ivy League indoor track and field championships

At the Ivy League Indoor Championships, first-year Jessica Oji was named the women’s Most Outstanding Field Performer, breaking the all-time Ivy League record in shot put, and fourth-year Fore Abinusawa was awarded the women’s Co-Outstanding Track Performer title, winning both the 60m and 200m.

Cancer care for the mind and spirit
Rebecca Boswell speaking with three people.

Patients are 10 times more likely to engage in mental health services when the therapy is integrated in a medical clinic, says Rebecca Boswell, center, with therapists at the Psychosocial Oncology Clinic.

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Cancer care for the mind and spirit

A psychosocial oncology program is a part of a revolution in cancer care at Penn Medicine to address a wider range of cancer patients’ experiences, and includes specially-trained psychotherapists at no cost.

From Penn Medicine News

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Awards and accolades for Penn faculty and graduate students
Statue of Ben Franklin on a bench in the snow.

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Awards and accolades for Penn faculty and graduate students

A roundup of the latest awards for various faculty members and graduate students at Annenberg, Wharton, Penn Nursing, SP2, and Penn Engineering.

Penn Today Staff

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How can people boost resilience? Karen Reivich shares some key insights
Karen Reivich smiling and hand gesturing while teaching a resilience workshop.

Karen Reivich, director of training programs at Penn’s Positive Psychology Center, facilitating a resilience workshop.

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How can people boost resilience? Karen Reivich shares some key insights

In a four-part series offered by Penn HR this spring, Karen Reivich of Penn’s Positive Psychology Center will guide staff, faculty, and postdocs toward building resilience.

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Pennovation Works 2025 Year in Review

Pennovation Works 2025 Year in Review

In 2025, Pennovation Works hosted nine international delegations across four continents, welcomed over 200 students through our Youth, Entrepreneurship, & STEM Initiative, supported the growth and advancement of life sciences, and prioritized the needs of the region’s tech community by serving as a premier hub for AI, tech, and robotics.

Exploring Black America: A historian’s unique path of inquiry
Marcia Chatelain

Marcia Chatelain’s next book, coming out this fall, is a narrative history of the women who played roles in the 1963 March on Washington.

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Exploring Black America: A historian’s unique path of inquiry

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marcia Chatelain, a Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Africana Studies, takes a unique approach to history, from the impact of fast food to the leadership of the Civil Rights Movement.

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How ancient attraction shaped the human genome
Human X chromosomes, karyotype, structure, division in genetic biological study

Why do modern humans carry small amounts of Neanderthal DNA almost everywhere in their genome except on the X chromosome? A new study by Alexander Platt and Daniel Harris in the lab of geneticist Sarah Tishkoff suggests the answer lies in ancient attraction. (Pictured) An illustration of a normal karyotype, the full complement of chromosomes arranged in homologous pairs.

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How ancient attraction shaped the human genome

Research led by geneticist Sarah Tishkoff’s finds that prehistoric mating preferences is a likely explanation for why modern humans have small amounts of Neanderthal genetic elements on their X chromosomes, challenging the idea that human evolution was driven solely by survival of the fittest.

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