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Sniffing out cancer: Trained dogs can detect hemangiosarcoma by scent
A black lab smelling an odor in an olfactometer.

Dalton at the olfactometer lineup.

(Image: Shelby Wise)

Sniffing out cancer: Trained dogs can detect hemangiosarcoma by scent

Penn Vet’s Cynthia M. Otto and Clara Wilson and colleagues show that trained dogs can identify the odor of hemangiosarcoma, a devastating canine cancer, offering the hope of a better screening tool and more effective treatments.

3 min. read

Penn Vet’s Total Hip Replacement Program helps heal dogs with hip dysplasia
Five Penn veterinary surgeons performing surgery.

Members of Penn Vet’s orthopedic team perform surgery in the Total Hip Replacement Program, including (second from the left) Anna Massie, assistant professor of small animal orthopedic surgery, Jason Syrcle, section chief and professor of clinical small animal orthopedic surgery, and Kimberly Agnello, professor of small animal orthopedic surgery.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Vet)

Penn Vet’s Total Hip Replacement Program helps heal dogs with hip dysplasia

Total hip replacement surgery outcomes at Penn Vet have been greatly improved through state-of-the-art technological advances and synergistic programming.

2 min. read

How interdisciplinary teaching becomes climate action

How interdisciplinary teaching becomes climate action

Penn graduate students are learning that net zero is a systems challenge requiring fluency across disciplines, and why interdisciplinary teaching is climate action—including how it builds the human capital the clean energy transition demands.

From Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

2 min. read

Penn Forward: Sarah Rottenberg applies design thinking for strategic University initiative
Sarah Rottenberg.

Sarah Rottenberg is assisting three Penn Forward working groups to generate big ideas that will carry Penn into the next decade and beyond.

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    • Penn Forward: Sarah Rottenberg applies design thinking for strategic University initiative

    Rottenberg, executive director of the Integrated Product Design Program and an adjunct associate professor in the Weitzman School, collaborated with three Penn Forward working groups to optimize idea development.

    3 min. read

    Stefan Hatch: Tackling housing insecurity
    Stefan Hatch stands in the McNeil Building.

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    Stefan Hatch: Tackling housing insecurity

    Fourth-year Stefan Hatch is researching one of Philadelphia’s most pressing challenges: housing insecurity. The double major combines urban studies and psychology to explore solutions.

    2 min. read

    Can AI tools help train a more effective physician?

    Can AI tools help train a more effective physician?

    CRISP (Clinical Reasoning Insights for Shaping Performance) is a new Penn Medicine initiative that will use AI-enabled systems to deliver data-driven feedback to medical students and postgraduate trainees, thanks to a new $1.1 million grant from the American Medical Association.

    Using law to support innovation

    Using law to support innovation

    From protecting artists to supporting emerging technologies, second- and third-year students working in Penn Carey Law’s Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic provide free legal work to individuals and nonprofit and for-profit ventures in science, technology, business, and the arts.

    From Penn Carey Law

    2 min. read

    An AI tool to help better understand medical visits
    Kevin Johnson seated at his desk with a computer and Karen O'Connor, seated at his desk, both testing the new equipment.

    Kevin Johnson, left, demonstrating the recording process with Karen O’Connor, right.

    (Image: Sylvia Zhang)

    An AI tool to help better understand medical visits

    Penn Engineering’s multimodal medical dataset, Observer, links video, audio, and transcripts to clinical data and electronic health records.

    Ian Scheffler

    2 min. read