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Penn's Wharton to Co-host Business, Financial Responsibility Training Seminar for High School Educators
Knowledge@Wharton High School (KWHS) and PwC today announced the convening of the PwC-KWHS Seminar for High School Educators on Business and Financial Responsibility. The all-expenses-paid financial literacy conference for 150 educators will be held Sept. 28-30 on the Philadelphia campus of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
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Penn-led Study of African Hunter-Gatherers Elucidates Human Variation, Evolution and Interbreeding
PHILADELPHIA — Human diversity in Africa is greater than any place else on Earth. Differing food sources, geographies, diseases and climates offered many targets for natural selection to exert powerful forces on Africans to change and adapt to their local environments. The individuals who adapted best were the most likely to reproduce and pass on their genomes to the generations who followed.
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Penn’s Charles Kane Named Simons Investigator and Awarded $500,000 Grant
PHILADELPHIA — Charles Kane of the University of Pennsylvania has been awarded a five-year, $500,000 grant from the Simons Foundation, as part of its inaugural class of Simons Investigators.
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Many Protected Areas Face Threats in Sustaining Biodiversity, Penn’s Daniel Janzen and Colleagues Report
PHILADELPHIA — Establishing protection over a swath of land seems like a good way to conserve its species and its ecosystems. But in a new study, University of Pennsylvania biologist Daniel Janzen joins more than 200 colleagues to report that protected areas are still vulnerable to damaging encroachment, and many are suffering from biodiversity loss.
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Pennsylvania Hospital Selected for Effort to Increase Breastfeeding Rates in U.S. Hospitals
Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH) has been selected to participate in Best Fed Beginnings, a first-of-its-kind national effort to significantly improve breastfeeding rates in states where rates are currently the lowest.
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Penn Annenberg Study: Americans Roundly Reject Tailored Political Advertising as Politicians Embrace it
A large majority of Americans are dead-set against the practice of tailored political advertising at the very time in the 2012 election that the activity is seeing unprecedented growth. In fact, a high percentage of Americans dislike tailored political advertising so much they say their likelihood of voting for a candidate they support would decrease if they find out the candidate engages in it.
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Joel Carstens Named Director of Financial Aid at University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA -- Joel Carstens has been named University Director of Financial Aid at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Sept. 1. He succeeds Bill Schilling, who retired.
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Penn’s Benjamin Horton Working on State-by-state Sea-level Research
PHILADELPHIA — In June, the North Carolina legislature attempted to block a group of local scientists’ findings about how climate change could impact the state via sea-level rise. The new legislation would, for a time, prohibit the state’s coastal developers from using anything but linear estimates for rates of sea-level rise, where levels would go up by around 20 centimeters over the next century.
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Benefits of HIV Drugs Rise -- but Less Than Previously Believed, Penn Study Shows
The percentage of HIV patients taking antiretroviral drugs who experienced the full benefit of the drugs jumped from 45 percent of 72 percent during the past decade, a figure that is lower than previous estimates.
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Penn Vet’s Farrier Service Keeps Horses on Their Feet
Patrick Reilly had been happily shoeing horses for more than a dozen years in New Hampshire when he got some momentous news. “I had promised my wife 20 years ago that we would never relocate,” he says, “unless I got a call from Penn.”