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Penn Receives $1.5 Million Grant to Predict Sea-Level Rise and Flooding from Hurricanes
PHILADELPHIA — In an effort to better understand sea-level rise and flooding from hurricanes along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant to a research team led by the University of Pennsylvania’s Benjamin Horton. The study aims to provide predictive models and reports that can be used both by environmental scientists and coastal communities.
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Heroic Dogs, a Decade Later
After the attacks of 9/11, the heroism of first responders — firefighters, police officers, EMTs, rescue workers and more — became a source of hope and inspiration in a trying time. But one group of responders has remained relatively unsung: 9/11’s working dogs. Though they are mostly owned by volunteer handlers and privately trained, an estimated 900 dogs were involved in the 9/11 response. They searched for survivors and human remains, patrolled with police officers and comforted both victims and rescue workers.
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Penn Researchers Awarded $1.5 Million to Advance Nanotechnology for Gene Sequencing
PHILADELPHIA -- A research team led by Marija Drndić of the University of Pennsylvania has been awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant to apply nanotechnology and materials science to the development of “third generation” techniques for DNA sequencing and to lower the cost of sequencing. The grant was made by the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.
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Penn Division of Public Safety to Host Safety Fair
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania Division of Public Safety, in conjunction with the House deans and staff of the College House system, will host a Safety Fair on Wednesday, Sept. 14, from noon to 2 p.m. at three locations on campus: the field at 40th and Locust streets, the Upper Quad and Hill Field.
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Penn remembers 9/11 with guest speakers, events
Penn undergraduates were only adolescents and preteens when the United States suffered the worst terrorist attack in its history, but even through the eyes of a child, they can remember the dark day with crystal clarity. Faye Cheng, a Wharton senior and vice president of the Undergraduate Assembly (UA), was in her sixth grade language arts class on Sept. 11, 2001, and can recall being sent home from school.
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Penn Public Safety to Conduct UPennAlert Drill, Host Fire Safety and Emergency Preparedness Day
PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania’s Division of Public Safety will conduct a UPennAlert Emergency Notification Test with a campus-wide shelter-in-place awareness drill, Thursday, Sept. 22, at 2:55 p.m.
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Wharton School at Penn Announces $12 Million Gift From Alumni Bruce Jacobs and Kenneth Levy
PHILADELPHIA -- The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce a $12 million gift from Bruce Jacobs and Kenneth Levy, classes of 1986 and 1982. The gift will include $10 million to establish the Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research and $2 million to fund the Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation. This commitment marks one of the largest gifts to The Campaign for Wharton, the school’s ambitious $550 million fundraising effort.
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Penn Researchers Awarded $3.2 Million to Continue Musculoskeletal Disorders Center
PHILADELPHIA — Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded another five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue the programs of the Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders. Penn is one of five institutions nationally with this Center award and the only one of the three up for renewal in the cycle to be re-funded. Upon review by the NIH, Penn also scored a perfect "ten."
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Penn Researcher Receives $6 Million Grant from Fondation Leducq for Lymphatic Vascular Study
PHILADELPHIA — Mark L. Kahn, MD, professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, received a five-year, $6 million grant from Paris-based Fondation Leducq to study lymphatic vascular defects and their contribution to common human cardiovascular diseases.
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Penn Study Linking Gut Microbe Type With Diet Has Implications for Fighting GI Disorders
PHILADELPHIA — "You are what you eat" is familiar enough, but how deep do the implications go? An interdisciplinary group of investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have found an association between long-term dietary patterns and the bacteria of the human gut.