In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A study out of the Perelman School of Medicine finds a statistically significant relationship between social media content with alcohol use and teen alcohol consumption.
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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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