Husnaa Haajarah Hashim sees poetry as transformative A former Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate, Penn junior Hashim reflects on her writing and scholarship during this moment when Amanda Gorman, the youngest presidential inaugural poet, is bringing national attention to poetry. Husnaa Haajarah Hashim, a Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate, is a junior at Penn, an Africana studies major, and creative writing minor.
Watching Amanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate, perform her poem at the presidential inauguration, Penn junior Husnaa Haajarah Hashim
thought of herself as a 10-year-old African American girl getting her poetry published for the first time.
Hashim is one of the celebrated young writers, like 22-year-old Gorman, in a new generation of poets.
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded $2.5 million in grants to 12 institutes around the world to support research on bacteriophage therapy. These awards represent NIAID’s first series of grants focused exclusively on research on this therapy, an emerging field that could yield new ways to fight antimicrobial-resistant bacteria. A 2019 report from CDC found that antibiotic-resistant pathogens cause more than 2.8 million infections in the U.S. each year and more than 35,000 people die.
A computer-generated rendition of a bacteriophage.
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Bacteriophages (or “phages”) are viruses that can kill or incapacitate specific kinds of bacteria while leaving other bacteria and human cells unharmed. By gathering naturally-occurring phages, or by modifying or engineering phages to display certain properties, researchers hope to create novel anti-bacterial therapeutics. Because phages eliminate ba