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Americans Still Say They Trust Their Own Doctor Even as Confidence in the CDC and FDA Falls Sharply

An Annenberg survey found 87% of Americans trust their own provider on public health while confidence in CDC, FDA, and NIH dropped sharply.

Medical Daily · Sep 2

Who Was Erin Piacenti? Bank of America VP and Penn Graduate Remembered by Colleagues

Who was Erin Piacenti? Inside the education and career of the Bank of America VP killed in the Times Square stabbing.

International Business Times UK · Sep 1

Laurene Powell Jobs left Wall Street and moved to Florence for eight months, then built a multibillion-dollar empire funding education, climate and social change

Laurene Powell Jobs took an unconventional route from Wall Street to becoming one of the most influential philanthropists and investors in the United States. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985, she spent a year at Merrill Lynch and two years at Goldman Sachs before leaving finance and…

The Times of India · Sep 1

Kidney Cells Were Thought to Lock In Their Fate Before Birth, and 700,000 of Them Disagreed

Penn and CHOP researchers mapped over 700,000 cells in developing human kidneys and caught cells reversing decisions they had already made.

Medical Daily · Aug 19

AI biotech company Cellular Intelligence names Arjun Raj its chief scientific officer

Cellular Intelligence has appointed Arjun Raj, PhD, as its chief scientific officer and scientific co-founder, the artificial intelligence company announced on Thursday, elevating the University of Pennsylvania scientist to lead the company's overall scientific strategy as it develops a universal foundation model of cell signalling.

The Times of India · Aug 14

The 20-Minute Social Media Audit That Digital Wellness Coaches Swear By (And You Keep Skipping)

Why Chanakya Would Have Audited His Feed FirstChanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a king who does not examine his own conduct before examining his kingdom's problems will solve nothing. The principle maps cleanly onto the social media audit: most people want to fix their relationship with their phone without…

Times Life · Aug 14

3 Social Media Habits That Keep You Purposeful Instead of Letting Platforms Run Your Attention

Chanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a man who cannot govern his senses will be governed by whoever can. He was writing about statecraft and court politics. The observation fits a feed algorithm with uncomfortable precision. Know Why You Are Opening the App Before You Open ItThe single most effective…

Times Life · Aug 14

The Psychology of Resilience: Why Some People Bounce Back From Failure Faster Than Others

The Attribution Gap Is Where Recovery Begins or StallsThe single biggest predictor of how fast someone recovers from failure is not how bad the failure was. It is what they decide the failure means. Martin Seligman's research on explanatory style, developed over decades at the University of Pennsylvania, found that…

Times Life · Jul 24

Sleeping Less Than 7 Hours a Week Wrecks Your Decision-Making and Judgment More Than You Realise

Your Brain Lies to You About How Impaired You AreThe most dangerous thing about sleeping less than 7 hours is not the tiredness. It is the confidence. A landmark study by Hans Van Dongen at the University of Pennsylvania tracked participants restricted to 6 hours of sleep per night for…

Times Life · Jul 17

Gurugram AI startup Brekfuz raises $525,000 in funding, valued at $7.5 million

Founded by Arhan Singhal (18), an artificial intelligence student at the University of Pennsylvania, and Sarthak Ahuja (19), a computer science student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Brekfuz is building what it describes as a “Human API” — a knowledge layer that captures institutional context and makes it accessible…

The Economic Times · Jun 30