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Rakesh Vohra appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor
A leading global expert in mechanism design—an innovative area of game theory that brings together economics, engineering, and computer science—has been named the University’s 15th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor.
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Engineers improve infrared detector technology
A team of Penn engineers has used a pattern of nanoscopic grooves on a tiny strip of gold to turn infrared light into mechanical action, a technique that could lead to more sensitive night-vision cameras and additional compact chemical-analysis techniques.
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Penn researchers integrate origami and engineering
The quintessential piece of origami might be a decorative paper crane, but in the hands of an interdisciplinary Penn research team, it could lead to a drug-delivery device, an emergency shelter, or even a space station.
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PennDesign plan puts vacant Philly school buildings to use
At the end of the school year in June, Philadelphia will have nearly three dozen vacant school buildings. Some are small- or medium-sized structures, while others are gargantuan, like Germantown High School, which is four stories high and more than 350,000 square feet. PennPraxis, the applied research arm of PennDesign, has developed a model for how the City of Philadelphia can reuse vacant school buildings for purposes such as housing for senior citizens or recreational space.
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BUP app helps prevent healthcare miscommunication
Miscommunication in a healthcare setting can have dire consequences, and is more likely to occur when clinicians and patients don’t speak the same language. While some healthcare settings have access to interpreters, others often do not. In Botswana, the official language is English, but many Batswana speak only the native language of Setswana. To help prevent healthcare miscommunication in the southern African country, a smartphone medical translation app has been developed for healthcare workers for use on either iPhones or the Android operating system.
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Two From Penn Win Pulitzer Center International Student Reporting Fellowships
In a pilot partnership with the University of Pennsylvania Africa Center, two Penn students have been named 2013 Pulitzer Center International Student Reporting Fellows.
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Penn Medicine: Gene Therapy Shows Protection in Animal Models to Flu Strains
Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania have developed a new gene therapy to thwart a potential influenza pandemic. Specifically, investigators in the Gene Therapy Program, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, directed by James M.
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Rakesh Vohra Appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor
Rakesh Vohra has been named the University of Pennsylvania’s 15th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, effective Aug. 1. The announcement was made today by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price.
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Penn Researcher’s Studies Yield Surprises About Lichens, Biodiversity
Since the time of Linnaeus and even before, biologists and naturalists have been keen to organize living things into distinct groups. Now the modern technology of rapid DNA sequencing has revolutionized that categorizing task, providing a window into the relationships among species about which little was once known.
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SP2 conference seeks end to homelessness
Imagine a world where each and every person has a safe, affordable, and adequate home in which to live, a world where the term “homelessness” is erased from the lexicon, and, like smallpox, eradicated from human history. In an effort to reach such a place, Penn is hosting an international conference on Monday, June 3, and Tuesday, June 4, that will focus on the public policies and personal ways that individuals can help bring an end to homelessness.