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Pipeline program connects West Philly students to careers in medicine

Ashley Mason was a 10th grader at Paul Robeson High School for Human Services in West Philadelphia when a recruiter spoke to her class about a program designed to connect students to careers in medicine. Mason was intrigued, especially since the Penn Medicine High School Pipeline program was offering tutoring and mentoring alongside the internship.

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Penn Medicine Study Shows Women's Risk of Depression Lowers After Final Menstrual Period

Risk of depression is lower in menopausal women after their final menstrual period (FMP) but a history of depression increases the risk of depressive symptoms both before and after menopause, according to a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

New eats in ARCH

Acclaimed Chicago chef Rick Bayless is bringing his food and global sensibility to Penn with a Tortas Frontera restaurant location on the first floor of the newly renovated ARCH Building in the center of Penn’s campus. The café, which plans to feature quick service Mexican fare, will be the chef’s first establishment on a college campus. The café will open at the startof next semester.

Penn Student’s Serendipitous Snapshot Develops Into Award-Winning Image

For one University of Pennsylvania doctoral student, promoting increased access to education around the globe led to an unanticipated title: award-winning photographer.

Trolley Transformation

The University City District (UCD), working in conjunction with Andropogon Associates landscape architects, SEPTA, the City of Philadelphia, and a committee of neighborhood stakeholders, is working to transform the 40th Street Trolley Portal. UCD has devised a plan to turn the concrete space into a vibrant, green, pedestrian-friendly plaza with a café. The two-phase plan calls for an increase in green space on the site, which is located on 40th Street between Baltimore and Woodland avenues. UCD has committed $650,000 for the first phase of the project, which could begin this year.

Penn Ranks No. 1 in Safety and Security for Seventh Consecutive Year

The University of Pennsylvania has been ranked No. 1 in safety and security in the higher education sector for the seventh consecutive year, according to Security Magazine’s “Security 500” list.

Penn Center for High Impact Philanthropy Offers Best Ways to Help After Typhoon

The Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania has developed a list of the top tips for donors, providing up-to-date information about smart philanthropic ways to help the people in the Philippines.

Penn Medicine: Study Shows Moms May Pass Effects of Stress to Offspring Via Vaginal Bacteria and Placenta

Pregnant women may transmit the damaging effects of stress to their unborn child by way of the bacteria in their vagina and through the placenta, suggest new findings from two animal studies presented by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania at Neuroscience 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.Stresses felt by mothers during pregnancy have been shown to affect offspring neurodevelopment and increase the risk for disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, but the mechanisms by which it can reprogram the developing brain are not clear.

Penn Medicine Orthopaedic and Plastic Surgeon Receives Award for Excellence and Achievement in Orthopaedics

The Arthritis Foundation recently presented the Sir John Charnley, MD, Award to L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery, and professor of Surgery (Division of Plastic Surgery) in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr.