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University of Pennsylvania Names Two New PIK Professors: Barbara Mellers and Philip Tetlock
PHILADELPHIA -- Barbara Mellers and Philip Tetlock have been appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge professors at the University of Pennsylvania. The announcement was made today by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price. Both PIK appointments are effective Jan. 1.
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Weightlifting Slashes Lymphedema Risk After Breast Cancer Treatment
(SAN ANTONIO) -- Weightlifting may play a key role in a program to prevent the painful limb-swelling condition lymphedema following breast cancer treatment, according to new research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
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Christopher S. Chen Receives Heilmeier Research Award in Penn Engineering
PHILADELPHIA – Christopher S. Chen has been named the recipient of the 2010-11 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania.Chen is the Skirkanich Professor of Innovation in the Department of Bioengineering. He is also a faculty member of the Cell Biology and Physiology Program as well as the Cell Growth and Cancer Program, director of the Tissue Microfabrication Laboratory and founding director of the Center for Engineering Cells and Regeneration.
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Penn Haptics Open House: Interactive Exhibition of Hands-On Student Projects Dec. 10
WHO: Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania 28 University of Pennsylvania students in Dr. Kuchenbecker’s MEAM 625: Haptic Interfaces graduate-level course on science and technology of touch-based interactions for virtual environments, teleoperation and autonomous robots.
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Penn Astronomer Opens New Window on the Universe’s Past
PHILADELPHIA –- A new instrument designed, built and operated by a collaboration including University of Pennsylvania astronomer James Aguirre and scientists at the California Institute of Technology, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Colorado and Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, is helping to open new views on a vital epoch of star formation in the early universe, using a convenient natural phenomenon called gravitational lensing. The instrument is Z- Spec.
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The Wharton School unveils new design for MBA program
A multi-year study has yielded an innovative new design for the MBA program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The design reflects an institutional commitment to a radically new vision of business education as a life-long knowledge partnership between Wharton and its graduates, including ongoing tuition-free, executive-education training for new MBA graduates.
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Wharton Announces Enhancements to MBA Program Design for Increased Flexibility, Life-Long Education
To Embrace a New Global Generation of MBA Students, the Wharton School Changes Curriculum Design to Promote Individualized LearningEnhanced Program Sees the MBA as Just the Beginning of a Business Leader’s Education: Commits to Tuition-Free, On-Going Executive Education for New MBA Graduates
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Personalized Vaccine for Lymphoma Patients Extends Disease-Free Survival by Nearly Two Years
(ORLANDO, Fla.) –A personalized vaccine is a powerful therapy to prevent recurrence among certain follicular lymphoma patients, according to the latest results of ongoing research led by the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
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Not Only Skin Deep: Penn Study on Skin Formation Suggests Strategies to Fight Skin Cancer
PHILADELPHIA - In a study published in the journal Developmental Cell, Sarah Millar PhD, professor of Dermatology and Cell & Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and colleagues demonstrate that a pair of enzymes called HDACs are critical to the proper formation of mammalian skin.
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Sharon Ravitch of Penn’s Graduate School of Education Named Advisor for Haitian Ministry of Education
PHILADELPHIA –- Sharon Ravitch, a senior lecturer in the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, has been named senior international advisor to the Haitian Ministry of Education for its Education Reconstruction Plan, designed to rebuild the nation’s education system.Creutzer Mathurin, a senior leader in the Ministry, formalized an agreement today at Penn, solidifying Ravitch’s and GSE’s role in rebuilding the Haitian educational infrastructure.