In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Recent graduate Regina Salmons, who rowed for four years on the women's rowing team, won gold in the women's pairs at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships. Salmons now has three U-23 gold medals during her career.
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A study finds that encouraging doctors to prescribe preventative cholesterol-lowering medication helps prevent long-term strokes and heart attacks, and electronic “nudges” embedded in patient's health dashboards can work to increase preventative prescription rates.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Four former Penn football stars are reporting to NFL Training Camps this week as the 2018 National Football League season begins.
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Penn Dental Medicine’s Hyun (Michel) Koo, an international leader in the field of cariology, has been recognized for his research by the International Association for Dental Research as the 2018 recipient of the William H. Bowen Research in Dental Caries Award.
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Joanne Iverson was the first head coach in the history of the Penn Women's Rowing program starting in 1968, and Donald Lippincott won silver and bronze medals in track and field at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm while a freshman at Penn.
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On July 27, Penn Law welcomed 116 students from 29 countries into the LLM Class of 2019, chosen from more than 1,300 applicants from over 70 countries, for a year of graduate study.
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Khushboo Goel, an MBA student at Penn’s Wharton School is a summer fellow at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris working on deep decarbonization strategies in India and the United States, through the Kleinman Birol Fellowship from the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.
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The University of Pennsylvania was represented by three players who received Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar recognition, and the men's golf program was named for President's Special Recognition status in the GCAA's All-Academic Team announcement.
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The popular anti-aging treatment has surprising applications for medical ailments, from correcting crossed eyes to remedying intestinal distress.
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In the Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics, Penn Medicine's Jalayne Arias, Jason Karlawish, and colleagues analyze whether, under current state laws, insurers could use Alzheimer's predictive biomarkers to deny coverage, and Penn Law's Allison Hoffman examines the lack long-term care insurance.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
