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Food and coat drive celebrates the spirit of giving
The holiday season is almost here, and at Penn there are many ways to honor the spirit of giving, including donating food or a warm winter coat to help people in need.
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Claire M. Fagin Named Guggenheim Honor Cup 2012 Honoree by Penn Club of New York
NEW YORK -- The Penn Club of New York has named Dr. Claire M. Fagin as the 2012 honoree for the Guggenheim Honor Cup. This prestigious award will be presented at a dinner to be held on November 29, 2012, at the Penn Club of New York in midtown Manhattan.
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Penn Vet now part of Penn’s Way campaign
This year, members of the Penn community have the opportunity to support one of their own as part of the 2013 Penn’s Way Campaign.
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Penn Crews Were Ready for Hurricane Sandy
The University of Pennsylvania managed to escape the worst impact of Hurricane Sandy, but, regardless of what might have happened, Penn was ready.
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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.
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27th annual Joseph Alexander Colloquium examines Anne Frank's diary
“The Diary of A Young Girl,” the most widely read version of Holocaust victim Anne Frank’s journal, has informed generations of readers about the horrors of Nazi Germany and preserved the observations of a young witness to history.
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Penn’s Chyke Doubeni Strives to Eliminate Inequities in Cancer Screening and Survival
When Chyke Doubeni was in high school, he thought he might become an economist, like his older brother. But one day a teacher pulled him aside and noted that Doubeni, a new Presidential Term Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, had a talent for science. Perhaps he should consider a career in engineering or medicine instead, the teacher suggested.
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Penn Medicine's Brian Strom, MD, MPH, Elected to Chair Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee
Brian L. Strom, MD, MPH, executive vice dean for Institutional Affairs at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected to Chair the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Committee on the Consequences of Sodium Reduction in Populations.
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Penn Museum Presents Day of the Dead Celebration
PHILADELPHIA, 2012—Penn Museum offers a Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) Celebration with a distinctively Maya focus Saturday, November 3, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. Visitors will view an imposing Day of the Dead Altar created just for the event, watch dancers from two local music and cultural groups, enjoy storytelling and traditional crafts, and hear about Day of the Dead traditions and variations practiced around the world. Day of the Dead at the Penn Museum is cosponsored by the Mexican Cultural Center of Philadelphia.
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Penn-Temple Team Discovers Gatekeeper for Maintaining Health of Cell Energy Source
PHILADELPHIA — Most healthy cells rely on a complicated process to produce the fuel ATP. Knowing how ATP is produced by the cell’s energy storehouse – the mitochondria -- is important for understanding a cell’s normal state, as well as what happens when things go wrong, for example in cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, and many rare disorders of the mitochondria.