In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
After a decades-long battle by federal and state administrations, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been opened to allow drilling in Alaska, creating a reversal in oil production following nearly thirty years of decline.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
A team of researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine discovered that suppressing impaired cellular struts, called microtubules, can lessen the stiffness in diseased heart muscle cells, thereby improving their beating strength.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Fourth-year head coach Nicole Van Dyke announce the 16 games coming up for the Quakers, beginning August 24th.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
The Program on Race, Science, and Society hosted an international symposium that brought together scholars to discuss how the categorizing of racial difference has significant implications for individuals across the globe.
FULL STORY AT OMNIA →
The professor of systems pharmacology and translational therapeutics at the Perelman School of Medicine is an international leader in cardiovascular disease research, and selected for membership in the Academy’s section on physiology and pharmacology/toxicology.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A study, by Wharton marketing professor Gideon Nave analyzes music preference and personality, and how marketing may use this data for personalized product offerings.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
he All-Big 5 teams have been announced for the 2018 baseball season, and the University of Pennsylvania was well-represented on the city list as six players received All-Big 5 recognition—more than any other school—and three of the major honors went to Quakers players.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
In a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, results show that voluntary bundled-payment programs for Medicare spending tend to engage larger non-profit hospitals, whereas some hospitals with lower volumes and fewer resources might only participate under a mandatory program. The results are published in the June issue of the journal Health Affairs.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A 25% increase in tariffs on steel imports, and 10% on aluminum, will raise prices, hurt demand and investments in jobs and factories, and encourage retaliatory tariffs.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Professor Chris Callison-Burch is creating ways to streamline crowd-sourced manual labor commissioned by Amazon to benefit workers.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
