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Two Behavioral Interventions Help Cancer Patients Struggling with Sleep Issues, Penn Medicine Study Finds
Cancer patients who are struggling with sleep troubles, due in part to pain or side effects of treatment, can count on two behavioral interventions for relief – cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), Penn Medicine researchers report in a new study published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Penn roboticists take on the world
In late December, teams from around the world descended on Florida’s Homestead Miami Speedway with millions of dollars of high-performance machinery in tow. But instead of the racecars that usually compete on the track, this was a battle between 16 of the most advanced robots on the planet. The event that brought these machines together was the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials, a competition designed to push the envelope in terms of robots that could autonomously serve in emergency and disaster scenarios that would be dangerous for humans.
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Applications to Penn Jump 14 Percent
The University of Pennsylvania has received 35,788 applications for the Class of 2018, a 14 percent increase over the prior year’s applicant pool.
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Penn Research Helps Lay Out Theory for Metamaterial That Acts as an Analog Computer
The field of metamaterials has produced structures with unprecedented abilities, including flat lenses, invisibility cloaks and even optical “metatronic” devices that can manipulate light in the way electronic circuitry manipulates the flow of electrons.
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Ifill, Castro to speak for MLK Lecture in Social Justice
This January marks Penn’s 19th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Symposium on Social Change, a series of events that originated with one Day of Service. “It has since morphed into what is now comprised of more than two weeks of events and programming that commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. King,” says Valerie Dorsey Allen, director of the African American Resource Center.
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New K9 Unit reports for duty
This semester, a new police unit is patrolling Penn’s campus, keeping their eyes, ears, and noses attuned to any threats to the University community.
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Penn Medicine Epidemiologists Find Bed Bug Hotspots in Philadelphia, Identify Seasonal Trends
A new study from Penn Medicine epidemiologists that looked at four years of bed bug reports to the city of Philadelphia found that infestations have been increasing and were at their highest in August and lowest in February. The findings, published ahead of print on January 8 in the Journal of Medical Entomology, point to two possible peak times to strike and eliminate the bugs.
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ARG exhibit features works by William H. Johnson
Some rare paintings by modern American artist William H. Johnson will be on display at the Arthur Ross Gallery’s (ARG) first exhibition of 2014, “William H. Johnson: An American Modern.” Skilled in a variety of media and techniques, Johnson created thousands of works from the 1920s through the 1940s.
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Penn Medicine: Red Blood Cells Take on Many-Sided Shape During Clotting
Red blood cells are the body’s true shape shifters, perhaps the most malleable of all cell types, transforming – among many other forms -- into compressed discs capable of going through capillaries with diameters smaller than the blood cell itself. While studying how blood clots contract John W.
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GSE launches Center for Minority Serving Institutions
The Graduate School of Education (GSE) kicked off the New Year with the launch of its newest research hub: the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions.