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  • Four Quakers start NFL season at Training Camp

    Four former Penn football stars are reporting to NFL Training Camps this week as the 2018 National Football League season begins.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →

  • IADR recognizes Dr. Michel Koo with Dental Caries Research Award

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Penn Athletics legends to be inducted into Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame

    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. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →

  • The surprising uses of Botox

    The popular anti-aging treatment has surprising applications for medical ailments, from correcting crossed eyes to remedying intestinal distress. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Learning your Alzheimer’s risk: Implications for long-term care insurance

    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 →

  • Professors González-Bailón and Mutz to participate in research partnership with Facebook

    Annenberg faculty members Sandra González-Bailón and Diana Mutz will both serve on Social Science One advising committees. Social Science one is a research initiative that pairs researchers with data collected by companies like Facebook, while maintaining the right to use that data in publications.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • Men's golf rolls up academic honors from GCAA

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →

  • Tennis teams named ITA All-Academic

    Both the men's and women's tennis teams from the University of Pennsylvania were named ITA All-Academic, and seven players from the men's squad, and three from the women's squad, earned ITA Scholar-Athlete status.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →

  • Linh Thi Xuan Phan builds new defenses for cyber-physical infrastructure

    In order to protect technologies that exist both online and in the physical world, such as self-driving cars, the computer and information science assistant professor is applying a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to prevent intruders operating online.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →

  • Alzheimer’s disease risk impacted by the liver and diet

    According to new research presented this week at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, lower values of plasmalogens, a class of lipids created in the liver, were associated with a higher likelihood of Alzheimer’s disease. The research highlights a potential relationship between conditions such as obesity and diabetes and Alzheimer’s, as the liver has to work harder to break down fatty acids over time.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →