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Penn Annenberg Researchers Study Media’s Role and the Flow of Information in Iran

University of Pennsylvania researchers are helping to provide a snapshot of how Iranians access news and information and what technologies Iranians use to learn about current events under restrictive laws. In a groundbreaking report by the Annenberg School for Communication’s Iran Media Program, authors Magdalena Wojcieszak, Briar Smith and Mahmood Enayat reveal results of surveys showing how Iranians use digital media as well as television, radio and publications.

Penn offers college tuition assistance for dependent children

Buy extra-long twin sheets and dorm room essentials … check. Attend a college information session … check. If you’re a Penn employee preparing to send a dependent child off to college, don’t forget to add this to your checklist: Apply for the University’s dependent child tuition benefit.

For some monkeys, cooperation can trump competition

While many animals cooperate with their kin, competition remains a fact of life in the wild. Unrelated individuals, usually males, constantly battle it out in life-or-death struggles for resources and mates. Human society, however, is based on some of the most complex and intricate systems of cooperation the world has ever known. 

Penn Study: Anti-Tau Drug Improves Cognition, Decreases Tau Tangles in Alzheimer's Disease Models

While clinical trial results are being released regarding drugs intended to decrease amyloid production - thought to contribute to decline in Alzheimer's disease - clinical trials of drugs targeting other disease proteins, such as tau, are in their initial phases.

Get your workplace certified as a green office

Many members of the Penn community are increasing their recycling rate, using less electricity, and running less water to step up their sustainable living at home. A new program from the Green Campus Partnership is encouraging employees to bring that same dedication to the workplace.

Printing 3D blood vessel networks out of sugar

Penn in Washington

As Washington scorches in record-setting heat, some Penn students are exploring hot government careers though Penn in Washington summer internships. Since 2006, PIW has facilitated internship placements for Penn students who benefit from the internship database on the PIW website, counsel from the program director and in some cases a helping hand from an alumnus.

Fall course explores stem cell ethics, education

Cellular Reprogramming. Cord-blood banking. Preserving the fertility of young people undergoing cancer treatment. Scenarios such as these are no longer the stuff of science fiction; they are real-life examples of how stem cell science can influence the lives of ordinary people.

Penn’s Annette Lareau Named President-elect of the American Sociological Association

PHILADELPHIA – Annette Lareau has been named president-elect of the American Sociological Association.  She is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor of Social Sciences in the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences’ sociology department. Following a year of service as president-elect, Lareau’s term as president will begin in August 2013. In the meantime, she will chair the 2014 Program Committee that will shape the 2014 ASA Annual Meeting, in San Francisco.

Penn's Nursing Education Simulation Center

  Penn Nursing students spend many hours in the classroom, but their curriculum also provides hands-on instruction, through simulation education. The Simulation Center on the first floor of the Claire Fagin Hall is undergoing an expansion project to create enhanced simulation space. The new 7,500 square foot facility will be nearly twice the size of its former one.