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  • #WomenofPenn: Time for the circadian field

     Shaon Sengupta, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Penn and an attending neonatologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, spoke with  Amita Sehgal about her work, which centers on the 24-hour rhythms that drive animal behavior. Like Sehgal, Sengupta is also interested in how chronobiology affects human health, and began her science education in India. Her interview is part of a yearlong online campaign highlighting #WomenofPenn. 

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  • Internal control audits: Why an SEC proposal could hurt more than it helps

    Wharton's Daniel Taylor discusses his research on why proposed SEC changes on small firm audits could lead to more accounting scandals.

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  • Olympic gold medalist Bryan Volpenhein named the Nicholas B. Paumgarten Head Coach of men’s heavyweight rowing

    Bryan Volpenhein, a three-time Olympian who stroked the United States to a gold medal in 2004, arrives at Penn with high-level experience as the United States National Team Coach, where he selected and trained the men's four for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and led three boats to gold medals during international competition.

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  • Is a long, shallow recession on the way?

    Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel discusses whether the U.S. economy is facing an imminent recession, with the recent mix of deteriorating economic indicators pointing to a slowdown.

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  • Penn football game day information

    Penn football returns on October 4, beginning a five-game home schedule that concludes with the season finale on November 23.

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  • Women’s basketball releases 2019-20 schedule

    Coming off an Ivy League regular season championship last season, the Quakers will host 12 games at The Palestra, with marquee matchups in the non-conference including a trip to ACC power Duke and a winter break jaunt to Hawaii for two games in The Aloha State. 

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  • It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a bathroom?

    Prefabricated bathroom pods are just one of the items manufactured for the Pavilion at PennFab, Penn Medicine’s off-site manufacturing facility in Grey’s Ferry. Prefab assemblies add flexibility to a complicated project, improving efficiency and uniformity in the design.

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  • Penn Medicine’s Jill M. Baren elected president of the American Board of Emergency Medicine

    Baren has been a member of the ABEM Board of Directors since July 2012, and was elected to the Executive Committee in 2016. She is also an attending physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and has served in many leadership roles at Penn Medicine and in professional organizations nationally. 

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  • Akins shines, Mattis wins to highlight T&F at Outdoor Championships

    Penn track and field had a banner weekend on the nation's biggest stage, with six current and former student-athletes achieving great heights at the 2019 USATF Outdoor Championships on the campus of Drake University.

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  • Cross country announces 2019 schedule

    Director Steve Dolan announced the men's and women's cross country teams will begin their season in the Fordham Fiasco at the Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx on Saturday, Sept. 7. 

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