In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The 2019 Victory Sports Tours/National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division I Senior Game roster was announced on Wednesday and Alexa Schneck was selected to represent the University of Pennsylvania among 38 other student-athletes in Winston Salem, N.C. on Friday, Nov. 22.
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A team led by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Georgia provides thousands of researchers around the world with access to the Eukaryotic Pathogen Genomics Database, a collection of resources for analyzing large-scale datasets associated with microbial pathogens.
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Penn Nursing’s Robin Stevens, assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Health, is set to receive the Early Career Award from the Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section of the American Public Health Association.
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In an op-ed for The Hill, Daniel Wagner, director of the International Literacy Institute and the International Education Development Program, argues that by only focusing on our own history, the United States misses an opportunity to learn from other countries that have tried to increase equity.
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Penn’s Center for Mental Health and the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health have jointly won a Society for Implementation Research Collaboration Conference award for their years of work on a project to improve care in the City's community mental health centers.
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Reflecting on her early career, M. Celeste Simon, a professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and the scientific director of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, notes the excitement and challenges associated with opening a lab. It’s a feeling that Sydney M. Shaffer also experienced in January, when she opened her lab at Penn, developing and using cutting-edge imaging and sequencing technologies to investigate single-cell problems in cancer.
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The book publishing arm of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is changing its name from Wharton Digital Press to Wharton School Press.
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New Wharton research shows that getting the initial coin offering design structure right is a key ingredient for success.
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Veteran radio journalist Dan Gorenstein is launching an in-depth podcast analyzing topical health care issues, in conjunction with Leonard Davis Institute, the Annenberg School, and the Center for Public Health Initiatives.
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Researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine will lead a multi-institutional effort in pursuit of developing a critical tool for imaging the brains of patients with Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, with a a five-year $20 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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