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Two Penn Graduate Students Attend Annual Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany
PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania graduate students Danielle Reifsnyder and Renuka Nayak are among 75 U.S. student researchers selected to attend the 60th Annual Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Germany.
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Making the Invisible Visible: Verbal Cues Enhance Visual Detection, Says Penn Researcher
PHILADELPHIA –- Cognitive psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of California have shown that an image displayed too quickly to be seen by an observer can be detected if the participant first hears the name of the object.
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University of Pennsylvania Professor Receives ICA Fellows Book Award
The International Communication Association (ICA), an esteemed academic association for scholars of human and mediated communication, today announced that Elihu Katz 's 1992 book (with Daniel Dayan of the French National Center for Scientific Research), Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History (Harvard University Press), was selected to receive the 2010 ICA Fellows Book Award.
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Fouls Go Left: Soccer Referees May Be Biased Based on Play’s Direction of Motion
Soccer referees may have an unconscious bias towards calling fouls based on a play’s direction of motion, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that soccer experts made more foul calls when action moved right-to-left, or leftward, compared to rightward action, suggesting that two referees watching the same play from different vantage points may be inclined to make a different call.
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Penn Geneticist Named 2010 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences
The Pew Charitable Trusts named Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou, PhD, assistant professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, as a 2010 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. The program enables scientists to take calculated risks, expand their research and explore unanticipated leads.
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Presidential Bioethics Commission will delve into synthetic biology issues
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, chaired by Penn President Amy Gutmann, will hold its first public meeting in Washington, D.C., on July 8 and 9.
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Penn’s Chief of Fire and Emergency Services Appointed to Board at Phila. Fire Dept. Historical Corp.
PHILADELPHIA — Gene Janda, the chief of fire and emergency services for the University of Pennsylvania, has been elected to a three-year term as a general member of the board of directors for the Philadelphia Fire Department Historical Corporation, which supports the Fireman’s Hall Museum in Old City.
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Abramson Cancer Center now offers acupuncture treatment
To help cancer patients better cope with the side effects of chemotherapy, radiation and other treatments, and to help cancer survivors bounce back faster, the Abramson Cancer Center is offering acupuncture as a supplement to conventional medical care.
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Power Down Challenge saves enough energy to power 10,000 homes
Top: Penn staffers play bocce ball outside of the Penn Museum. Bottom: WCIT staffers gather for an ice cream social. Photo credit: Top: Amy Ellsworth; Bottom: Dan Garofalo During Penn’s Power Down Challenge on June 17, staff members helped to reduce the University’s electricity usage by nearly 13 megawatt hours, enough energy to power 10,000 homes for one hour.
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Penn Graduate School of Education Researchers Head to Haiti to Improve Long-Term Educational Leadership
PHILADELPHIA — Sharon Ravitch, a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, will lead a team of researchers to Haiti on July 15 to launch an educational-redevelopment project aimed at helping to rebuild the country’s academic infrastructure.January’s earthquake in Haiti killed nearly 1,300 teachers, leaving a massive void in educational leadership.