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Wednesday, August 29, 2018
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Speaking at Monday’s Convocation to welcome freshmen and transfers, President Amy Gutmann challenged the more than 2,500 students in the Class of 2022 to respond to a “momentous” calling. “To truly make destiny, to effect change for the better, no one person goes it alone,” she said. “At Penn, everything we do to make our future better, we do together.” (Photos (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/convocation-2018?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=520b6d7865-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-520b6d7865-44504553) )
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-welcomes-class-2022
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Under bright sunshine, President Amy Gutmann welcomed members of the Class of 2022 as they moved into the 12 College Houses across campus. The newest Quakers come to Philadelphia from 49 states, Puerto Rico and 88 foreign countries. (Photos (https://www.flickr.com/photos/universityofpennsylvania/sets/72157697119835622?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=520b6d7865-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-520b6d7865-44504553) /Video (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-welcomes-class-2022?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=520b6d7865-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-520b6d7865-44504553) )
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In its 32nd year, the Africana Studies Summer Institute brought 65 incoming freshmen to campus, including Chinaza Okonkwo from Los Angeles. The rigorous weeklong academic experience gives them an opportunity to learn what is expected in courses and also to get to know professors, graduate students, and each other.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/alarming-diabetes-epidemic-guatemala-tied-aging-not-obesity
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In Guatemala, more than 25 percent of indigenous people suffer from Type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes. Researchers from the Penn Center for Global Health have found, however, that the increase in diabetes is significantly related to aging, a finding that contradicts conventional beliefs about the relationship between obesity and disease.
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#https://global.upenn.edu/pennabroad/blog/fika-and-scrum
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Rising junior Khizrah Naveed of Lahore, Pakistan, blogs about her experiences as a business-development intern in Amman, Jordan. She describes two unique features of the company: the fika, a bi-weekly staff meal and bonding opportunity, and the scrum, a weekly meeting in which departments can share their accomplishments with the larger company.
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More than 150 different mutations in the light-sensing molecule rhodopsin can cause retinitis pigmentosa, characterized by a progressive loss of night and peripheral vision. A team including the School of Veterinary Medicine’s William Beltran, Gustavo Aguirre, and Raghavi Sudharsan and the Perelman School of Medicine’s Artur Cideciyan and Samuel Jacobson, together with University of Florida collaborators, have developed a treatment for the condition. Successful results in dogs set the stage for testing in humans.
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#https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/opinion/20Turow.html
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Writing in The New York Times, Joseph Turow of the Annenberg School for Communication shares his research on internet users’ perceptions of online privacy policies. The majority of consumers do not understand what they’ve agreed to, he says, which may explain why many feel that existing laws adequately protect their privacy.
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Senior Senator has been called “one of the craziest horses that ever looked through a bridle.” A serious accident in May 2017, however, nearly ended his racing career and only healed after Dean Richardson of the School of Veterinary Medicine surgically stabilized the fracture to the horse’s neck.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/mentoring-tomorrows-biomedical-researchers
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Andrea Gomez, a rising senior in the School of Arts and Sciences from Union, N.J., joined 40 undergraduate students from colleges and universities across the country for the Summer Undergraduate Internship Program, now in its 25th year. It’s a 10-week experience for those interested in research careers in the biomedical and biological sciences. The program offers full-time lab experience, as well as mentorship.
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M. Ani Hsieh of the School of Engineering and Applied Science heads the interdisciplinary Scalable Autonomous Robots Lab, which is working to map ocean currents with a swarm of marine robots like the one above. The research has the potential to change the way humans interact with the ocean. (Video (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/mapping-ocean-aquatic-robots?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=520b6d7865-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-520b6d7865-44504553) )
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/helping-class-2022s-first-generation-community-early
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Rising School of Arts and Sciences senior Lyndsi Burcham, from Kansas City, Mo., spent the summer planning tailored New Student Orientation programming for Quakers like her who identify as first-generation, high-need students. The events included a Welcome Barbecue, a workshop outlining on-campus resources, and a shopping excursion.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/preserving-philadelphias-society-hill
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The histories of more than 1,500 properties in a storied Philadelphia neighborhood are now accessible on the “Preserving Society Hill” website, created by Francesca Russello Ammon of the School of Design. Working with digital-humanities specialists in the Libraries and School of Arts and Sciences, she developed an interactive map to document this innovative case study in urban renewal.
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#https://global.upenn.edu/pennabroad/blog/my-last-night-guangzhou
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The night before his departure, Kenneth Shinn, a rising sophomore from Santa Rosa, Calif., took a walk down the north bank of the Pearl River. It was perfect weather by Southern China standards, and under the city lights Shinn reminisced about his eight weeks working at a data-services company in Guangzhou.
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#https://omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/alef-allah-c-cute
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In field work across the Muslim world, Jamal Elias of the School of Arts and Sciences frequently saw images of children used to communicate religious and civic ideals. These observations led him to research and ultimately write a book about the emotional and thematic space that children occupy in contemporary Islamic societies.
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