In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Anew study from the Perelman School of Medicine determined that “clear cell” renal cell carcinoma tumors are found to repress enzyme activity. Treatments that restore the depleted enzymes may expand options for kidney cancer patients.
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Highlights of the numerous distinctions and accolades members of the Graduate School of Education were awarded with this season.
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Three teachers were chosen directly by their engineering students for the awards, based on excellence, dedication, and inspiration.
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Wharton experts weigh in on the recent decision by the Trump administration to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement, and the potential risk it poses to the role the U.S. plays in the Middle East
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Two graduate students explore the physical, political and historical borderlands between two countries in conflict, bringing landscape design concepts outside the studio and embedding them in a physical space that has naturalized war into its terrain.
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A list of this year's distinguished recipients of eight teaching awards for Wharton Business School faculty.
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She is one of 20 recipients of the award from the Aspen Institute Business & Society Program, for her course “Fault Lines and Foresight”.
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A quick primer that clarifies how these cholesterol-lowering drugs work, and who should, and shouldn't, be taking them.
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While the breakthrough in the longstanding cold-case is a success, the question of privacy and private DNA analytics services is challenged.
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Worries about data privacy, when user-generated data is monetized, leads to a larger question of regulation in the tech industry.
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