In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The task of designing a logo has historically been viewed as an art more than a science, but Wharton marketing professor Ryan Dew’s new paper, “Letting Logos Speak: A Machine Learning Approach to Data-driven Logo Design,” proposes a more data-driven approach.
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Alexander Proekt and Max B. Kelz are part of Penn’s Center for the Neuroscience of Unconsciousness and Reanimation Research Alliance, driving research on the unconscious mind and the mechanisms behind states of anesthesia and wakefulness.
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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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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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Wharton's Matthew Bidwell and Marshall W. Meyer discuss Amazon's decision to raise its minimum wage for employees.
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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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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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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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