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Penn Vet Hosts Free Lecture, 'Feline Behavior: Understanding Your Cat's Language'
On Saturday, April 21 the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) will host a free, open-to-the-public lecture called “Feline Behavior: Understanding Your Cat’s Language,” at Penn Vet in Philadelphia, PA. Beginning at 10:00 AM, Dr. Carlo Siracusa, lecturer of behavior at Penn Vet, will talk about feline communication and preventing behavior problems, and environmental enrichment.Who: Penn Vet, cat owners, interested members of the public.
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Inner Weapons Against Allergies: Gut Bacteria Control Allergic Diseases, Penn Study Finds
When poet Walt Whitman wrote that we "contain multitudes," he was speaking metaphorically, but he was correct in the literal sense. Every human being carries over 100 trillion individual bacterial cells within the intestine -- ten times more cells than comprise the body itself.
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Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania Select Lipman Family Prize Finalists Vying for $100,000
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has announced its selection of three finalist organizations vying for the Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize. The Lipman Family Prize recognizes and amplifies the work of organizations devoted to positive social impact and the creation of sustainable solutions to significant social and economic challenges. Prize finalists will present to the Prize Committee on April 12 and the winner will be selected and annou
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Penn Research Points to New Way of Preserving Fertility for Boys Undergoing Cancer Treatment
PHILADELPHIA — Treatments for childhood cancers are increasingly successful with cure rates approaching 80%, but success often comes with a downside for the surviving men: the cancer treatments they received as boys can leave them sterile as adults.
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‘Thinking With the Past’ Lecture at Penn to Look at ‘The People and the Book’
WHO: Speaker: David B. Ruderman, Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Jewish History, University of Pennsylvania
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Penn throws Russian tea party, once a week
Each Wednesday at 1 p.m. is teatime in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Russian teatime. A table laden with baked goods, decadent chocolates, and cold and hot tea beckons partygoers inside Room 737 in Williams Hall. Any Penn student can attend. Faculty and staff are welcome, too, as long as they follow one rule: Speak only Russian.
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Burrison Gallery exhibit bridges math and art
At first blush, art and math couldn’t seem more different from one another: free-flowing creative expression versus rigid rule-based analysis. But the histories of the two disciplines are deeply intertwined. The mathematicians of the medieval Middle East developed algebra and represented the patterns they found there in woven tapestries and mosaic tessellations. Tessellation is the creation of a two-dimensional plane with regular and repeating geometric shapes that fit together with no overlaps and no gaps, like the tiles of a bathroom floor.
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Penn Medicine Experts Identify Male Pattern Baldness Inhibitor, Target for Hair Loss Treatments
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified an abnormal amount a protein called Prostaglandin D2 in the bald scalp of men with male pattern baldness, a discovery that may lead directly to new treatments for the most common cause of hair loss in men. In both human and animal models, researchers found that a prostaglandin known as PGD2 and its derivative, 15-dPGJ2, inhibit hair growth.
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Ring in spring with Penn tree giveaway
Penn is partnering with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society to stage its second annual Creating Canopy free tree giveaway for members of the University community who are homeowners. The program has been expanded this year to include homeowners who live in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware suburbs, as well as those within the Philadelphia city limits.
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Author Tracie McMillan to discuss food justice at Penn Bookstore
As the movement to embrace fresh, local food grows—championed by companies such as Whole Foods and writers like Michael Pollan—a segment of the population is frequently left behind: members of low-income households who can’t afford to buy organic berries and don’t have the leisure time to raise tomatoes in their backyard gardens.