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Med Ed program helps teachers teach doctors
Teaching students who are on the path to becoming physicians is nothing new at Penn. Founded in 1765, the Perelman School of Medicine is the oldest medical school in the United States and has been training doctors for almost 250 years.
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Penn Institute for Urban Research keeps a city pace
As a university located in one of America’s largest cities, it seems fitting that Penn should have an institute dedicated to all things urban. And just as cities are fast-paced and ever-changing, the Penn Institute for Urban Research (IUR) has in eight years evolved from a singular research entity into an international resource known for its panels, symposia, and book series.
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Penn Researchers Build First Physical “Metatronic” Circuit
PHILADELPHIA -- The technological world of the 21st century owes a tremendous amount to advances in electrical engineering, specifically, the ability to finely control the flow of electrical charges using increasingly small and complicated circuits. And while those electrical advances continue to race ahead, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are pushing circuitry forward in a different way, by replacing electricity with light.
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Under Secretary of Education Martha Kanter to Visit Penn for College Affordability Town Hall Feb. 24
WHO: Martha Kanter, Under Secretary of Education Eric Furda, Dean of Admissions, University of Pennsylvania Vincent Price, Provost, University of Pennsylvania
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Former United Nations Peacekeeping Commander to Speak at Penn
WHO: Romeo Dallaire, former commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda WHAT: “When Humanity Fails: Lessons from the U.N. General Who Tried to Stop the Rwandan Genocide”
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'Thinking With the Past' Lecture at Penn to Address ‘Barack Obama and Burden of Race’
WHO: Speaker: Thomas Sugrue, professor of history and sociology, University of Pennsylvania
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Penn: New Combo of Chemo and Well-Known Malaria Drug Delivers Double Punch to Tumors
Blocking autophagy -- the process of "self-eating" within cells -- is turning out to be a viable way to enhance the effectiveness of a wide variety of cancer treatments.
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Penn Researcher Helps Discover and Characterize a 300-Million-Year Old Forest, Preserved Like Pompeii
PHILADELPHIA — Pompeii-like, a 300-million-year-old tropical forest was preserved in ash when a volcano erupted in what is today northern China. A new study by University of Pennsylvania paleobotanist Hermann Pfefferkorn and colleagues presents a reconstruction of this fossilized forest, lending insight into the ecology and climate of its time.
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Four Penn Researchers Awarded Sloan Fellowships
PHILADELPHIA — Four University of Pennsylvania faculty members are among this year’s Sloan Fellowship recipients. Since 1955, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has granted yearly fellowships to early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them the next generation of scientific leaders.To qualify, candidates must be nominated by their peers and selected by an independent panel of senior scholars. Each Fellow receives a two-year, $50,000 award to further his or her research.Penn’s 2012 Sloan Fellows are:
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Penn's Amy Gutmann Reappointed Chair of Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
PHILADELPHIA -- Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, has been re-appointed chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues by President Obama. She has served in the position since first being appointed by Obama in 2009.Also reappointed to the Commission was James W. Wagner, the vice chair. Wagner is the president of Emory University.