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Penn Researchers Grow Liquid Crystal 'Flowers' That Can Be Used as Lenses
A team of material scientists, chemical engineers and physicists from the University of Pennsylvania has made another advance in their effort to use liquid crystals as a medium for assembling structures. In their earlier studies, the team produced patterns of “defects,” useful disruptions in the repeating patterns found in liquid crystals, in nanoscale grids and rings. The new study adds a more complex pattern out of an even simpler template: a three-dimensional array in the shape of a flower.
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Penn Medicine: Despite Rising Health Care Costs, Few Residency Programs Train Doctors to Practice Cost-Conscious Care
Despite a national consensus among policy makers and educators to train residents to be more conscious of the cost of care, less than 15 percent of internal medicine residency programs have a formal curriculum addressing it, a new research letter published today in JAMA Internal Medicine by a Penn Medicine physician found.
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Penn Team Reduces Toxicity Associated With Lou Gehrig’s Disease in Animal Models
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a devastating illness that gradually robs sufferers of muscle strength and eventually causes a lethal, full-body paralysis. The only drug available to treat the disease extends life spans by a meager three months on average.
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Penn’s Strong Global Community Attracts Growing Number of International Students
During the past five years, the number of international students at the University of Pennsylvania has seen record growth at the undergraduate and the graduate level. Penn is among the top destinations for international students from around the world seeking to study in the United States. Currently, the University hosts 5,751 international students from 137 different countries, including China, Japan, Thailand, Canada, Taiwan and Singapore.
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Penn Medicine Named as Inaugural Member of NIH Network to Revolutionize Stroke Clinical Research
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will join a new national network of 25 regional stroke centers selected to advance stroke research on prevention, treatment and recovery. Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in the US, and the new program, initiated by the National Institutes of Health, aims to allow the most promising therapies to quickly advance to the clinic, to improve prevention, acute treatment, or rehabilitation of the stroke patient. The Centers were announced Thursday by the National Institutes of Health.
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Penn Presents ‘Real Talk’ Student Monologues on August Wilson and Beyond
WHO: University of Pennsylvania students in Herman Beavers’ “August Wilson and Beyond” course WHAT: “Real Talk” inspired by conversations with members of the West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
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Solving large-scale energy problems
When it comes to solving the global problem of the shrinking supply of fossil fuels, there is no silver bullet solution.
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Penn professor tells the history of one of Philly’s most visible, bushy-tailed residents
Etienne Benson, an assistant professor in Penn’s Department of History and Sociology of Science, has trained his academic eye on the history of conservation of large, charismatic wildlife, such as tigers, grizzly bears, and orcas. With his latest publication, however, he consciously chose to investigate a creature that may be considered less exotic, and is certainly less large.
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Touch Tours for the blind
Following a successful pilot season in the fall of 2012, the “Insights into Ancient Egypt” Touch Tours program at the Penn Museum, designed with and for Museum visitors who are blind or have low vision, is expanding after extensive input and feedback from members of the community.
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Chaplain’s book fights homelessness, gun violence
The Rev. Charles “Chaz” Howard never set out to write a book of poetry. But in his job as University Chaplain—and after years of working in hospital and hospice chaplaincies, and conducting street outreach for homelessness services agency Project HOME—he found that writing about his experiences came naturally.