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Penn Researcher Explores the World of the Sex Trade
While some Ivy League professors are clean-cut academics who wear suits with bowties and carry stacks of books from the library, others shatter that image. Instead, some wear jeans and explore very dark, far-away places. One of those researchers studies the underworld of the sex trade -- not just in Philadelphia but also in New York City and in India.
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125 years of Mask and Wig musical theater
After 125 years, Penn’s Mask and Wig club will once again honor its motto, “Justice to the stage and credit to the University,” with an original production that explores a time-traveling hero’s struggles to teach a society to value its members for more than their good looks.
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Penn drives transportation research forward
Innovations in the realm of transportation technology have historically been physical; steam boilers gave way to internal combustion engines and then to electric fuel cells. But like most other technological landscapes, the field of transportation has undergone a digital revolution.
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Fluharty Named Dean of Arts and Sciences at Penn
PHILADELPHIA -- Steven J.
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Penn Sociologist Jason Schnittker Examines Incarceration and Psychiatric Disorders Link
PHILADELPHIA – Psychiatric disorders are prevalent among current and former inmates of correctional institutions, but what has been less clear is whether incarceration causes these disorders or whether inmates have these problems before they enter prison.
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Penn’s Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program Honored
Emilio Parrado, director of the Latin American and Latino Studies program at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named one of the Delaware Valley’s Most Influential Latinos. Parrado is featured among a group of more than two-dozen prominent Philadelphia area residents in the Impacto newspaper’s annual list.
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Penn Study: Transmission of Tangles in Alzheimer's Mice Provides More Authentic Model of Tau Pathology
PHILADELPHIA — Brain diseases associated with the misformed protein tau, including Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration with tau pathologies, are characterized by neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) comprised of pathological tau filaments. Tau tangles are also found in progressive supranuclear palsy, cortical basal degeneration and other related tauopathies, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy due to repetitive traumatic brain injuries sustained in sports or on the battle field.
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Barry Scheck of the Innocence Project to Speak at Penn
WHO: Barry Scheck, Cardozo School of Law professor and co-founder of the Innocence Project WHEN: Jan. 22, 2013, 5:30 p.m. WHERE: University of Pennsylvania
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Grammy-Winning Penn Alumnus John Legend to Speak at 12th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture
WHO: John Legend, University of Pennsylvania alumnus and nine-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist
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Penn Study of Breast Cancer Message Boards Finds Frequent Discussion of Drug Side Effects
PHILADELPHIA — In the first study to examine discussion of drug side effects on Internet message boards, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that breast cancer survivors taking the commonly prescribed adjuvant therapy known as aromatase inhibitors (AIs) often detailed in these forums troublesome symptoms resulting from the drugs, and they were apt to report discontinuing the treatment or switching to a different drug in the same class.