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  • Villalba, Russo and Webb qualify for NCAA Nationals

    For the first time in program history, three runners —Maddie Villalba, Anthony Russo and Sam Webb—from the men's and women's cross country teams qualified for the NCAA National Championships by finishing in the top four of non-automatically qualified runners.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics

  • Yelp reviews reveal strengths and weaknesses of emergency departments and urgent care clinics

    Yelp reviews reveal that emergency departments are viewed as being higher quality but lacking in service as compared to urgent care centers, which patients rate the opposite, according to a new study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Penn engineers discover new cellular ‘elevator’ that’s controlled by light

    In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that when a natural photoreceptor protein is exposed to light, it moves itself from the inside of the cell to the surface, like a molecular “elevator,” by directly binding to the cell’s membrane.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog

  • Why do we eat soup when we have a cold?

    Melissa Bailey, a clinical dietician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania believes there is no “one size fits all” approach to diet, but says there is real scientific evidence backing the merits of soup—especially for those with a cold.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Ralph Lemon named Sachs Visiting Professor at PennDesign

    PennDesign has appointed Ralph Lemon, a choreographer, writer, visual artist, and curator, the Keith L. and Kathy Sachs Visiting Professor in the Department of Fine Arts for the 2018-2019 Academic Year.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • New decision support tool improves discharge outcomes

    To optimize post-acute care decision-making, a team led by the School of Nursing developed, validated, and tested a two-step clinical decision support algorithm called Discharge Referral Expert System for Care Transitions (DIRECT). 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Penn and CHOP team receives $1.84 million grant to study best practices for curbing cell phone use while driving

    Kit Delgado of the Perelman School of Medicine and a team from Penn and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have received a major grant from the Federal Highway Administration to help curb distracted driving. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Five from field hockey earn All-Ivy laurels

     Alexa Schneck, Paige Meily, Sofia Palacios, Erin Kelly, and Ava Rosati were all chosen as some of the top field hockey players in the conference.  

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics

  • Can India become the next $10 trillion economy?

    Marshall M. Bouton from the Center for the Advanced Study of India discusses what lies ahead for U.S.-India relations.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Penn engineers develop ultrathin, ultralight ‘nanocardboard’

    Ateam of Penn Engineers has demonstrated a new material they call “nanocardboard,” an ultrathin equivalent of corrugated paper cardboard. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog