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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.
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Volleyball Coach Kerry Carr: Learning and Teaching Life Lessons
University of Pennsylvania women’s volleyball coach Kerry Carr can draw from personal experience when she instructs her team on playing the game or when guiding students in handling school or life issues. As a volleyball star for the College of William and Mary in 1987-90, Carr has traveled a similar road as the women on the Quaker team.
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Penn Research Reveals New Aspect of Platelet Behavior in Heart Attacks: Clots Can Sense Blood Flow
PHILADELPHIA — The disease atherosclerosis involves the build up of fatty tissue within arterial walls, creating unstable structures known as plaques. These plaques grow until they burst, rupturing the wall and causing the formation of a blood clot within the artery. These clots also grow until they block blood flow; in the case of the coronary artery, this can cause a heart attack.
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Penn SRFS Office Adds Financial Literacy Program for Undergrads -- and Grads
PHILADELPHIA – Managing a budget, balancing a checking account and paying bills on time are among the financial responsibilities adults must juggle. They are also tasks many young people don’t take on until they go to college and, if the students are ill prepared, they can get them into hot water.
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Penn’s Dan Garofalo Named to Philadelphia’s Civic Design Review Committee
PHILADELPHIA -- Dan Garofalo, environmental sustainability coordinator and senior facilities planner at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named to the first Civic Design Review Committee of the City of Philadelphia.
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University of Pennsylvania a Stop on Arab Journalists’ Tour as They Cover U.S. Elections
PHILADELPHIA – Ten journalists from the Arab world visited the FactCheck.org headquarters at the University of Pennsylvania and met with the director of Penn’s Middle East Center in October as part of the U.S. State Department’s Arabic-language Election 2012 tour.
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Middle East film festival opens on Oct. 30
Like foreign films? Want to learn more about modern Middle East cultures? You can do both at Penn’s New Middle East Cinema film festival, running Oct. 30-Nov. 3 at Claudia Cohen Hall and College Hall.
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Penn Study: New Evidence Suggests Certain Anesthetics Highjack the Brain's Natural Sleep Circuitry
PHILADELPHIA — A new study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrates in an animal model that a commonly used inhaled anesthetic drug, isoflurane, works by directly causing sleep-promoting neurons in the brain to activate, thereby hijacking our natural sleep circuitry.
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Penn offers CPR training for parents
Knowing how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can mean the difference between life and death, and often that life is likely to be someone at home: a child, a spouse, a parent, or a friend.
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HR offers flu shots for faculty and staff
Penn wants faculty and staff to stay free of sniffles, sneezes, and coughs during the impending flu season and is offering on-campus flu shots to part-time and full-time employees to help them ward off influenza. The Division of Human Resources (HR) has teamed up with Occupational Medicine to provide flu shots at a reduced price ($25, cash only).