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  • Dolan, Pflaumbaum named regional coaches of the year

    The women's track and field director and assistant coach were awarded with the honors by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association following the Quakers' first outdoor Ivy League Heptagonal title since 1988.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics

  • Hearts, minds and money: maximizing charitable giving

    Wharton professor Deborah Small examines effective altruism versus maximizing the value of individuals’ charitable dollars, and how choosing charities may be more of an emotional rather than rational selection.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Words matter: how lyrics help songs top the charts

    Marketing professors discuss the paper “Are Atypical Songs More Popular?”, which reports on a study using natural language processing to analyze the lyrics of hundreds of songs in order to determine whether the lyrics affect a song's popularity. 

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Respecting pronouns in the classroom

    By asking students their pronouns starting at a young age, educators can make room for students who may be exploring their gender identity, and show everyone that gender identity should not be assumed.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education

  • Conflicting guidance on opioids for cancer pain management

    Penn Nursing and Penn Medicine call for more consistent guidelines for prescribing opioids for optimal cancer-related pain management and avoiding misuse, in response to some CDC guideline recommendations that are inconsistent with the long-standing cancer pain guidelines.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Joseph S. Francisco named President’s Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science

    Francisco is an internationally recognized scholar of atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Chemistry, on July 1, 2018. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences

  • Finding an effective treatment for rare neuroendocrine tumors

    A study conducted at the Abramson Cancer Center showed a significant reduction in tumor growth and side effects in trials for the radiotherapy drug AZEDRA. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Landscape architecture students inform revitalization in the Highlands

    Students of the Master of Landscape Architecture program at PennDesign have chosen four sites in the Highlands, a 1.85 million-acre ecoregion from northwestern Connecticut to eastern Pennsylvania to focus a living landscape design intervention directly. 

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • In helping smokers quit, cash is king, e-cigarettes strike out

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Reimagining Pennsylvania's coal communities

    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. 

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center