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Eat to Dream: Penn Study Shows Dietary Nutrients Associated with Certain Sleep Patterns
PHILADELPHIA — “You are what you eat,” the saying goes, but is what you eat playing a role in how much you sleep? Sleep, like nutrition and physical activity, is a critical determinant of health and well-being.
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Penn Professor Charles Bosk Wins American Sociological Association’s 2013 Reeder Award
PHILADELPHIA –- University of Pennsylvania sociology professor Charles L. Bosk has won the 2013 Leo G. Reeder Award from the American Sociological Association. He will receive it in August at the ASA annual meetings in New York.
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For Three Decades, Computer Science’s Susan Davidson Has Led by Example
PHILADELPHIA — After more than 30 years on the job, Susan Davidson has some perspective on her discipline.
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Two-Step Immunotherapy Attacks Advanced Ovarian Cancer, Penn Medicine Researchers Report
PHILADELPHIA — Most ovarian cancer patients are diagnosed with late stage disease that is unresponsive to existing therapies. In a new study, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine show that a two-step personalized immunotherapy treatment — a dendritic cell vaccine using patients’ own tumor followed by adoptive T cell therapy — triggers anti-tumor immune responses in these type of patients. Four of the six patients treated in the trial responded to the therapy, the investigators report this month in OncoImmunology.
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Penn Receives $25 Million Gift to Create Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has received a $25 million gift from alumnus Ronald O. Perelman to create the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, which will provide a new home for Penn’s departments of Political Science and Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences.
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Spring Forward by Learning Something New at Morris Arboretum
PHILADELPHIA -- Morris Arboretum offers more than 75 classes each spring and fall with topics as varied as:· Culinary Adventures,· Behind the Scenes Tours & Trips,· Health & Wellness in the garden,· Growing Minds for kids and families,· Birding Excursions,
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Penn Researchers Use DNA to Make Crystals That Can Switch Configurations
PHILADELPHIA — Beyond serving as the backbone of modern biology, DNA has come to be a molecule of great interest to engineers. That a DNA sequence will naturally bind only with a complementary sequence could make it part of a configurable, and potentially programmable, building material.
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Materials Day entices next-generation scientists
On Saturday, Feb. 2, student volunteers from Penn and Drexel will come together for a growing annual tradition: Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day. The free event, being held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Drexel’s Bossone Research Center, aims to show children of all ages that learning about science can be fun, and to educate the general public about a field of research that is rapidly growing in importance.
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Seniors Raise Money for the Penn Fund
Years after leaving the University of Pennsylvania, many alums fondly recall details of their first day on campus, the thrill of a basketball game in the Palestra, studying in Fisher Fine Arts Library. The Penn experience has a profound effect on many of their lives, and, in following Penn tradition, many alums give back to the University through the Penn Fund.
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Penn Museum unveils “Fifty Shades of Pompeii”
Since its release in 2011, E. L. James’ erotic novel series “Fifty Shades of Grey” has sold more than 65 million copies worldwide. The books have enthralled readers with salacious tales of sexual bondage, sadism, and masochism. But when it comes to risqué behavior, James ain’t got nothing on the art of the Ancient Roman Empire.