In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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.
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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.
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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 →
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.
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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.
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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 →
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.
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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.
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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 →
