Penn in the News

Aimin Chen of the Perelman School of Medicine explains that PFAS refers to thousands of chemicals that do not all behave the same way.

Regarding online shopping platforms, Kartik Hosanagar of the Wharton School says, “Whoever controls the agents now has the power.”

Susan C. Taylor of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “When UV is high, it means there are many UV rays getting through, so you need to double your skin protection efforts, avoiding the sun between the peak hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and wearing hats, sunglasses, rash guards.”

Of sports ownership, Kevin Kaiser of the Wharton School says, “It's a different type of asset, and that's why I call it a trophy asset. It's sort of like buying Pokemon cards, or Picassos.”

“Penn President J. Larry Jameson discusses the challenges he's faced during a tumultuous last two and a half years and his plans for Penn's future.”

“In high school, J. Larry Jameson would check out books by the stacks from the library, hungry for knowledge he felt he wasn’t getting in the classroom.”

Ursina Teitelbaum of the Perelman School of Medicine says a new blood testing screening for colorectal cancer is “very forward thinking and reality-based.”

The McNeil Center for Early American Studies co-sponsored a panel of students and educators discussing the meaning of democracy. Penn student Sophie Gala is quoted.

“It’s not going to kill one virus,” says Henry Daniell of the School of Dental Medicine about his bioengineered chewing gum. “It’s going to clean out pretty much every virus in the oral cavity.”

“Making too little saliva is a bigger problem than making too much,” says Dean Mark Wolff of the School of Dental Medicine.