In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
A new discovery about how the immune system responds to common sinus infections and asthma could explain why patients develop these issues in the first place and ultimately may lead to improved targeted therapies.
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Financial incentives are found to be three times more effective than smoking cessation aids, in a study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine.
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A report out of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy examines the downturn in coal demand, and what economic strategies can help distressed workers and communities.
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Sociology professor Daniel Aldana Cohen calls for a more nuanced, modern view on energy consumption when discussing factors in climate change.
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An arguably sham election prompts a political scientist at Penn to discuss the country's current crisis, and whether a regime change is the solution.
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Penn Dental Medicine’s Eva Anadioti has been recognized by two independent organizations as one of their 2018 40 Under 40 honorees. Both the Greek America Foundation and the Philadelphia Business Journal selected Anadioti for these annual awards.
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Two Wharton papers consider the less-beaten path of forming a partnership between two companies rather than a merger and acquisition may create a more valuable partnership of “network synergy” rather than separate internal synergies.
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The Journal of Clinical Orthodontics (JCO) recently announced the selection of Dr. Samaneh Mojarrad (GD’18), a Penn Dental Medicine orthodontics resident and Master of Science in Oral Biology (MSOB) candidate, as the winner of the 2018 Eugene L. Gottlieb JCO Student of the Year Award. Dr. Mojarrad was chosen over 21 other students from schools around the United States in a two-stage competition judged by members of the JCO editorial board.
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Dr. Ali Naji, the J. William White Professor of Surgical Research at the Perelman School of Medicine wins one of the highest honors for a transplant surgeon-scientist as an esteemed kidney and pancreas transplant surgeon, immunologist, and researcher.
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Black people still feel the need to tread lightly, or not at all, in “white spaces” in light of recent discriminatory attacks and arrests.
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