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Annenberg Faculty to Help Launch Health Communication Program at Chinese University
PHILADELPHIA (June 7, 2010) – Renmin University in Beijing will begin a health communication program with help from faculty and researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication.
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Cheating-Prevention Software Takes $25,000 Prize in Milken-Penn GSE’s Education Business Plan Competition
PHILADELPHIA — Two men from Texas have won $25,000 in the only business plan competition designed to use innovation to improve education.
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Anti-cheating software wins Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition
Software that keeps students from cheating on online coursework was awarded the top prize at the inaugural Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition, the first and only business plan competition designed to use innovation to improve education.
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Penn Med researcher studies stress and fatigue during simulated Mars mission
A Penn Medicine professor is leading a team of scientists who will monitor a six-man international crew on a simulated mission to Mars.
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Jumping Genes Provide Extensive “Raw Material” for Evolution, Penn Study Finds
PHILADELPHIA - Using high-throughput sequencing to map the locations of a common type of jumping gene within a person’s entire genome, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found extensive variation in these locations among the individuals they studied, further underscoring the role of these errant genes in maintaining genetic diversity.
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PennMOVES Sale Set for 8 a.m., Saturday, June 5
WHAT: PennMOVES, now in its third year, is an effort to find a home for items University of Pennsylvania students can’t take with them when they leave campus and to do so in a socially responsible and environmentally friendly way.
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Penn’s Shoemaker Green Project to Be Test Site for Sustainable Landscape Rating System
PHILADELPHIA –- A University of Pennsylvania project designed to turn a set of aging tennis courts into an urban park called Shoemaker Green has been selected as a pilot for the nation’s first rating system for green landscape design, construction and maintenance.
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“Grinding Mouth, Wrinkle Eye”: Penn Graduate Student Describes New Species of Plant-Eating Dinosaur
PHILADELPHIA –- A team of paleontologists, including a University of Pennsylvania doctoral candidate, has described a new species of dinosaur based upon an incomplete skeleton found in western New Mexico. The new species, Jeyawati rugoculus, comes from rocks that preserve a swampy forest ecosystem that thrived near the shore of a vast inland sea 91 million years ago.
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Penn Researchers Add Genetic Data to Archaeology and Linguistics to Get Picture of African Population History
PHILADELPHIA –- Genetic researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have combined data from existing archaeological and linguistic studies of Africa with human genetic data to shed light on the demographic history of the continent from which all human activity emerged.The study reveals not just a clearer picture of the continent’s history but also the importance of having independent lines of evidence in the interpretation of genetic and genomic data in the reconstruction of population histories.
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New $25.5 million Abramson family gift to fund cancer research at Penn Medicine
Photo credit: Scott H. Spitzer From left to right, Craig Thompson, director of the Abramson Cancer Center; Madlyn Abramson; Leonard Abramson; and Penn President Amy Gutmann at an event on May 10 to honor the Abramson’s $25.5 million gift and five decades of cancer research and treatment at Penn Medicine.