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Moving in with Penn freshman Hannah Cutler
[flickr]72157635170115589[/flickr] Photos by Scott Spitzer The interdisciplinary spirit of the School of Engineering and Applied Science was the Cupid that caused freshman Hannah Cutler to fall in love with Penn.
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Penn Students Travel the World to Research Alternative Currencies
There are about 4,000 alternative currencies in use around the world, and they vary widely. In Zimbabwe, a country with so much hyperinflation that it hasn’t had a national currency since 2009, people create colorful non-bank notes and barter for goods and services. During World War II, the United States government issued ration coupons to ensure that all Americans got their fair share of scarce necessities.
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Penn: Researchers Agree that Alzheimer's Test Results Could be Released to Research Participants, if Guidance and Counseling in Place
A leading group of Alzheimer's researchers contends that, as biomarkers to detect signals of the disease improve at providing clinically meaningful information, researchers will need guidance on how to constructively disclose test results and track how disclosure impacts both patients and the data collected in research studies.
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Minor and Major: Penn Study Finds A New Gene Expression Mechanism
A rare, small RNA turns a gene-splicing machine into a switch that controls the expression of hundreds of human genes. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and professor of Biochemistry Gideon Dreyfuss, PhD, and his team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, discovered an entirely new aspect of the gene-splicing process that produces messenger RNA (mRNA).
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Presidential Bioethical Commission meets at Penn
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues held deliberations on ethics and neuroscience during its 14th public meeting from Aug. 19-20 at the Perelman School of Medicine’s Smilow Center for Translational Research.
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Penn Vet Protects 145 Acres of Chester County Farmland With Conservation Easement
With the signing of an agricultural conservation easement this week, the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has ensured that 145 acres of its New Bolton Center Campus will be protected from development and will continue the area’s agricultural tradition.
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Penn Medicine Researchers Evaluate Outcomes and Costs in Perioperative Care
Differences in the utilization of intensive care services may be one potential explanation for improved outcomes after major surgery in the U.S. versus other nations, according to a commentary published in JAMA Surgery by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Penn’s Chaplain Chaz Howard: The Healing Gift of Poetry
Through Chaz Howard’s career as a spiritual advisor, he has shared the joys of the human experience as well as some of the most painful times in people’s lives. As the University of Pennsylvania’s chaplain, Howard has helped provide pastoral support, guidance and counseling to students, faculty and staff through a range of challenging issues.
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Tumors Form Advance Teams to Ready Lungs for Spread of Cancer, Finds Penn Study
Cancer metastasis requires tumor cells to acquire properties that allow them to escape from the primary tumor site, travel to a distant place in the body, and form secondary tumors. But first, an advance team of molecules produced by the primary tumor sets off a series of events that create a network of nurturing blood vessels for arriving primary tumor cells to set up shop.
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Penn President Amy Gutmann to Welcome Incoming Freshmen
WHO: Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, and incoming freshmen WHAT: Move-in for Penn's Class of 2017 WHEN: Aug. 22, 2013, 12:30-1 p.m. WHERE: Quadrangle Dormitory