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  • Women's soccer announces 2018 schedule

    Fourth-year head coach Nicole Van Dyke announce the 16 games coming up for the Quakers, beginning August 24th. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →

  • Researchers identify new target for treating heart failure

    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 →

  • Challenging the biological concept of race

    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 →

  • Garret FitzGerald elected to the German National Academy of Sciences

    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 →

  • From Bach to rock: how music preferences predict behavior

    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 →

  • Baseball well-represented as Big 5 announces postseason honors

    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 →

  • U.S. import tariffs: why the cost will be high

    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 →

  • Researchers try to improve working conditions for Amazon’s Mechanical Turk workers

    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 →

  • Gastrointestinal bleeding research points to need for updated Medicare policies

    In 2018, Medicare implemented a new inpatient-reporting program, which requires hospitals to publicly report 30-day readmission rates. New research from Penn Medicine categorizes the outcomes of patients with GI bleeding, shedding light on the need to redefine the patient population.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Penn lacrosse and Young Quakers Community Athletics host 5th annual Urban Youth Lacrosse Jamboree

    The Young Quakers Community Athletics (YQCA), an initiative between Penn's Netter Center for Community Partnerships and the Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletic hosted the two-day event, featuring YQCA's West Philadelphia teams and teams from New York City's Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership as well as Boston's Metro Lacrosse.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →