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Penn 60 Second Lecture on Oct. 10: “Yes We Can ... or Maybe We Won't: The Youth Vote in This Presidential Election”
WHO: David Thornburgh, executive director, Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania WHAT: Final installment of the Fall 2012 60-Second Lecture Series
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Penn Hosts First Ivy Plus STEM Symposium
This weekend, Penn hosted the first Ivy Plus Symposium and workshops for diverse scholars, a national conference designed to encourage exceptional undergraduate students to pursue advanced training in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, fields.
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Netter Center to Use AT&T Grant to Support Ninth Graders’ Achievement at Two West Philadelphia Schools
PHILADELPHIA -- Ninth grade students at University City and Sayre High schools in West Philadelphia will be the beneficiaries of a $300,000 competitive grant received by the University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships from the AT&T Aspire Local High School Impact Initiative.
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Bitter Taste Receptors Regulate the Upper Respiratory Defense System, Penn Medicine Study Reveals
PHILADELPHIA — A new study from a team of researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the Monell Chemical Senses Center, and the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, reveals that a person’s ability to taste certain bitter flavors is directly related to their ability to fight off upper respiratory tract infections, specifically chronic sinus infections. The new research is published in the latest edition of the Journal of Clin
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Penn Students Teach and Learn in Central America
Randall Tassone and Jean Lim have returned to campus after spending the summer enriching their lives as well as the lives of people in Nicaragua.
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Facing Global Educational Issues: Penn GSE Researchers in Austria
Marybeth Gasman and Laura Perna, two researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education are in Austria this week for the Salzburg Global Seminar.
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Penn Vet offers drop-off service for University employees
It’s not always easy for pet owners to take time off from work to ensure that their animal companions get the veterinary care they need. Fortunately for animal-loving employees of Penn and Penn Medicine, the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital has a program that makes it easy to fit a vet appointment into a workday.
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Van Pelt Library celebrates 50 years
Van Pelt Library was constructed in 1962 when Penn’s Library outgrew its home in the historic Frank Furness building, now home to the Fisher Fine Arts Library.
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The importance of being a ‘nice’ baboon
Baboon females actively work to maintain close social bonds but, like humans, some seem to be better at it than others. With the strength of baboons’ social network closely tied to their health and reproductive success, a team of Penn researchers wanted to get at the root of this variation. What they found is that, just like in humans, it’s a question of personality.
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Penn Researchers Show Relationship With Working Dogs Protect Handlers From PTSD
Anyone who has had a pet instinctively knows what several physical and mental health studies have shown: people who have a companion animal have lower levels of stress, anxiety and depression than the general population. But with love comes the possibility of loss; when pets fall ill, are hurt or die, their owners bear the psychological burden of increased risk of depression and other ailments.