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How does medicine come to be?
A bowl of dried ginger root for traditional Chinese medicine.

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How does medicine come to be?

By tracing substances from their roots to how they’re used today, a team including Hsiao-Wen Cheng of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations aims to answer questions about how medical practices evolve.

From Omnia

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Penn GSE organizes transformative leadership professional development in Alabama

Penn GSE organizes transformative leadership professional development in Alabama

As a part of an ongoing Wallace Foundation funded initiative, Penn’s Graduate School of Education (GSE) brought district teams from across the country to Montgomery, Alabama for immersive learning at the Legacy Sites with founder Bryan Stevenson and GSE professor Howard Stevenson.

From Penn GSE

Analyzing the news with AI
A person standing inside multicoloured data sheets and social media chat icons organised into circular pattern.

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Analyzing the news with AI

Annenberg School for Communication postdoctoral fellow Baird Howland looks at prominent narratives in the news media and how they shape Americans’ worldviews.

Hailey Reissman

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Who, What, Why: Kara Butler on museum education
Kara Butler talks at podium.

Kara Butler spoke at an event for Makuu: The Black Cultural Center about her experience growing up in Philadelphia.

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Who, What, Why: Kara Butler on museum education

Butler, a fourth-year anthropology and communication double-major from Philadelphia, is starting a master’s program at the Graduate School of Education in the fall, with the goal of becoming a museum educator.

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Matthew Levendusky on civics, partisan politics, and teaching public opinion
Matthew Levendusky.

Matthew Levendusky is a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and in the Department of Political Science in the School of Arts & Sciences.

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Matthew Levendusky on civics, partisan politics, and teaching public opinion

Matthew Levendusky has been named a joint professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and in the Department of Political Science in the School of Arts & Sciences.

From Annenberg School for Communication

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Scholars focus on credit, accountability, and transparency in scientific authorship guidelines

Scholars focus on credit, accountability, and transparency in scientific authorship guidelines

A new article co-authored by Annenberg Public Policy Center director Kathleen Hall Jamieson argues that what constitutes a contribution worthy of authorship should be determined by who has accountability for the research; the foundation for “responsible authorship,” they write, are transparency, credit, and accountability.

How markets can help society adapt to climate change
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How markets can help society adapt to climate change

Environmental and labor economist R. Jisung Park co-authored a new paper reporting that carefully designed markets and supportive public policy can help individuals and communities more effectively approach climate adaptation.

From the School of Social Policy & Practice

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