In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Advanced Certificate in Oncology Social Work is a 12-month program, which includes monthly sessions taught at the Perelman School of Medicine, that trains social workers to specifically respond to cancer patients with guidance, advocacy, and support in coping with their diagnoses.
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With a high-resolution image of an ion channel protein, researchers will now be able to use bioinformatics to discover compounds that interact with that protein to treat and prevent kidney stones in at-risk populations.
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Penn Law professor Maggie McKinley uncovers the previously unexplored origins of the modern administrative state in the history of Congressional petitioning in a recent article in the Yale Law Journal.
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Wharton's Matthew Bidwell and Marshall W. Meyer discuss Amazon's decision to raise its minimum wage for employees.
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As an eighth-grader living with a cancer diagnosis, Alli Kellers suddenly faced an entirely new set of teenage challenges. Her cancer treatment required a full team of experts in her hometown of Lancaster and Philadelphia, including a pediatric neurosurgeon, oncologist, radiologist and behavioral health counselor.
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Current and former faculty and residents from Penn Dental Medicine’s Department of Oral Medicine played key roles in the 7th World Workshop of Oral Medicine held in Gothenburg, Sweden, September 24-26, 2018.
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Danielle Mowery, will also lead the Clinical Research Informatics Core (CIC) in the Institute for Biomedical Informatics. The new role supports the evolution of clinical and translation research with a focus on data analytics and integration.
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Annenberg School for Communication doctoral student Chioma Woko has been named to its 2018 cohort of Health Policy Research Scholars for her work as a a health communication doctoral student studying health behaviors online. She is conducting research on what factors influence people in social networks to carry out health behaviors, such as physical activity, contraceptive use, and tobacco-related behaviors.
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Of the eighteen new Senior Fellows to the Leonard Davis Institute, three members are from Penn Nursing: Nancy Hodgson, Ariana Chao, PhD, and Pamela Cacchione.
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A study led by Eric J. Brown, an associate professor of cancer biology in the Perelman School of Medicine, identifies a new approach to the molecular mechanism of cancer drugs could aid in better identifying the best treatments for patients for an array of cancers.
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