In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
A new study, led by psychiatry assistant professor Theodore D. Satterthwaite, utilized machine learning to identify brain-based dimensions of mental health disorders, an advance towards much-needed biomarkers to more accurately diagnose and treat patients.
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The Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law and real estate professor presented a talk at the U.S. Army War College last month, covering his research which applies finance principles to questions of international tax policy.
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Senior linebacker Nick Miller has been named one of 25 FCS players to the initial Watch List for the 2018 Buck Buchanan Award presented annually to the most outstanding defensive player in FCS football.
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has appointed Penn Nursing’s Nancy Hodgson, the Anthony Buividas Endowed Term Chair in Gerontology, to his 35-member Long-Term Care Council.
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E xecutive Director of the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation and LDI Senior Fellow has been named the 2018 recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's David E. Rogers Award for his work elevating the standard of health care delivery in America, and advancing the education of future physicians.
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Anew scholarship named for Penn Medicine professor and LDI Senior Fellow David Asch awarded Solymar Torres Maldonado and Katharine (Kara) Freeman as the inaugural recipients of the David A. Asch Medical Student Scholars in Health Services Research scholarship.
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For Garret FitzGerald, director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at Penn, multiple sabbaticals at various health tech companies and other learning institutions exposed him to the different medical disciplines, from molecular biology to the power and language of bioinformatics, and on understanding the biology of senescence.
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Arecent paper examines the country's transportation infrastructure suffers from lack of investment and overexposure to risk. Much infrastructure is also underinsured, which leads to an over-reliance on government disaster funding.
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The Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics surpassed its fundraising goal of $18.7 million, with contributions from alumni, family members, and fans, in an effort to positively impact the Penn student-athlete experience.
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In a study published online in Genes and Development Mitchell Lazar and his team found that reducing macrophage activity, the immune system's inflammatory response to tissue damage, can inhibit obesity and diabetes, diseases associated with prolonged inflammation.
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