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Open Learning at Penn
GLOBAL LEARNING: Penn launched its Open Learning Initiative in July 2012, a vital part of the University’s mission to increase worldwide access to educational resources that can impact humanity. As one of the early adopters of massively open online courses (MOOCs), Penn aims to create and disseminate knowledge, drive teaching innovation, and expand the University’s global presence.
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Bilsky to retire as athletic director
President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price announced that Director of Athletics Steve Bilsky will retire on June 30. Bilsky has made an indelible impact on the University across six decades, since his student days as a captain of a historic men’s basketball team through his nearly 20 years of distinguished leadership of Penn Athletics.
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Five Penn faculty named AAAS Fellows
Five faculty members from Penn have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They areamong 388 members of AAAS awarded the distinction this year for “their efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.”
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Crossing the blood-brain barrier to treat Alzheimer’s
Drugs intended to break apart the tangled plaques that cloud the brains of Alzheimer’s patients confront a biological obstacle: the blood-brain barrier. Tightly packed cells along this border between the brain and the bloodstream allow only small molecules to cross, effectively protecting the brain against pathogens, but stifling many treatment strategies.
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For the Record: Penn’s era of campus expansion
When Penn moved from Center City to West Philadelphia in 1872, College Hall, the University’s first building, housed classrooms, the library, labs, and faculty offices. Within a few years, the campus added Medical Hall, now Claudia Cohen Hall, and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania building. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Penn acquired other buildings to expand the campus, and Franklin Field and the Law School were constructed.
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Penn students promote linguistic and cultural diversity
Ariel Koren, a junior in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, fell in love with the Spanish language and Latin American culture when she was in high school in Jacksonville, Fla. But for her sister, who has learning disabilities, lessons about another language and culture weren’t quite as accessible.
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One Protein, Two Personalities: Penn Team Identifies New Mechanism of Cancer Spread
Cancer involves a breakdown of normal cell behavior. Cell reproduction and movement go haywire, causing tumors to grow and spread through the body. A new finding by University of Pennsylvania scientists has identified key steps that trigger this disintegration of cellular regulation. Their discovery—that a protein called Exo70 has a split personality, with one form keeping cells under tight control and another contributing to the ability of tumors to invade distant parts of the body—points to new possibilities for diagnosing cancer metastasis.
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Penn Medicine: Dietary Amino Acids Relieve Sleep Problems after Traumatic Brain Injury in Animals
A new study suggests a potential dietary treatment - a cocktail of key amino acids that improved sleep disturbances caused by brain injuries in mice - for millions of people affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI)—a condition that is currently untreatable.
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Penn Medicine: Sleep-Deprived Mice Show Connections Among Lack of Shut-eye, Diabetes, Age
Sleep, or the lack of it, seems to affect just about every aspect of human physiology. Yet, the molecular pathways through which sleep deprivation wreaks its detrimental effects on the body remain poorly understood. Although numerous studies have looked at the consequences of sleep deprivation on the brain, comparatively few have directly tested its effects on peripheral organs. During sleep deprivation cells upregulate the UPR – the unfolded protein response – a process where misfolded proteins get refolded or degraded.
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Penn Center for Advanced Study of India Announces New Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship
The Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania has announced a new fellowship that will enable recent Penn graduates to conduct independent research for nine months or more in India.