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Election Night Watch Events at Penn
MEDIA ADVISORY WHO: University of Pennsylvania students WHAT: Election night viewing parties
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Penn Medicine Expert to Receive American Heart Association's Lifetime Achievement Award
LOS ANGELES — Lance Becker, MD, a professor of Emergency Medicine and director of the Center for Resuscitation Science at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, will receive the American Heart Association’s 2012 Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cardiac Resuscitation Science during the organization’s annual Scientific Sessions.
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Penn’s Netter Center Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary With an International Conference
PHILADELPHIA – To celebrate 20 years as a university-wide center that develops democratic partnerships with its West Philadelphia neighbors, the University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships will hold a two-day international conference Nov. 12-13 in Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street.
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Paul Salopek to Speak at Penn on ‘Out of Eden: A Journalist Gone Rogue'
MEDIA ADVISORY WHO: Paul Salopek, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
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At the World Resources Forum in Beijing, Penn’s Iliana Sepúlveda Shares Lessons on Energy Subsides
PHILADELPHIA — To a room full of academics and Ph.D. students in the notoriously polluted city of Beijing, the University of Pennsylvania’s Iliana Sepúlveda presented ideas for increasing the use of energy-efficient technology that may one day help lessen the burden of fossil-fuel combustion in that city, as well as many others across the globe.
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Looking at the Big Picture: Penn Researcher Receives Grant to Study Success at Minority-serving Institutions
Panoramic images enable one to see everything in one complete picture, providing a better understanding of the entire setting. And when looking at the landscape of higher education and student success, the viewer has to be able to see more than just a snapshot of public and private schools.
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Penn Nursing: It’s Personal
As a student at Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti Catholic High School, Stephanie Kelly decided on a career in nursing. For her, it was not simply a desire to change the world through the science; it was much more personal.
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Penn Urges Students to Vote
PHILADELPHIA -- Students at the University of Pennsylvania are being urged to participate in the Nov. 6 general election.
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Penn Study Finds New Medication Shows Promise as Lipid-Lowering Therapy for Cholesterol Disorder
PHILADELPHIA — An international effort led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has resulted in positive phase 3 clinical trial results for a new medicine to treat patients suffering from a rare and deadly cholesterol disorder.
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Researchers uncover ‘smart’ blood clots
Blood clots can help or hurt, depending on where they occur. When you get a cut, platelets swarm to the site of an injury and join together, forming a clot that stops the bleeding. But for individuals with the disease atherosclerosis, injury occurs within the wall of an artery and fatty tissue builds up inside these walls and eventually bursts. When platelets swarm to this injury site, the resulting clot can block the flow of blood. Blockage in the coronary artery can cause thrombosis and a heart attack.