In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The latest leadership role for Perelman School's Jill M. Baren, MD, is as a fellow with the American Council on Education (ACE). Baren and 45 fellows will work in tandem with their respective university presidents and associates while conducting projects within their institutions, and receiving mentorship for senior positions.
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Ezekiel Dixon-Román from the School of Social Policy & Practice will receive an Outstanding Book Award at the AERA’s awards luncheon, April 15. Through analyses of empirical data and cultural artifacts, his book reconsiders how we conceptualize inheritance and approach social inquiry to address the reproducing forces of inequality.
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How can Penn Vet students operate on a real dog’s spine without ever touching a real dog? The answer isn’t a riddle, it’s augmented reality. This spring, Penn Vet is launching an augmented reality interface for an exacting spinal cord surgery.
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Arthritis can sideline a sport horse. Catching and treating the joint disease early is key to keeping an athletic equine comfortable and active. A robot-powered CT scanner at Penn Vet's New Bolton Center is helping capture fine details of horse anatomy in animals that awake and moving, findings that may translate to earlier diagnoses.
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As a Gerbner Fellow, Chan will combine new research on gay and lesbian dating app users in China with his dissertation research on dating, intimacy, identity politics and dating apps for a forthcoming book manuscript.
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A new documentary will feature Fred Rogers and the three-decade run of his pioneering, genre-defining children’s television show, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. "He was really effective at keeping the focus on the child," says Penn Medicine psychotherapist Joelle Beecher-McGovern.
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The composition of bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract may hold clues to help predict which cancer patients are most apt to benefit from the personalized cellular therapies that have shown unprecedented promise in the fight against hard-to-treat cancers, according to researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine.
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A group of researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine studying data from the 1,000 Genome Project published a study highlighting the role of genome evolution in disease and human pathology research.
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Some dressed as Disney characters, others as superheroes, students and faculty from Penn Dental Medicine provided free dental care to local children as part of Public Citizens for Children and Youth’s 15th annual Give Kids a Smile event. Dental students also provided oral health education to participating children in the waiting area of the pediatric clinic.
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In a Q&A with Jeffrey Edward Green, the associate professor of political science at Penn describes modern participatory democracy as equal parts active voter and passive spectator roles, the current political climate, and the classist barriers to true democracy.
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