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Pheromones a myth in mammals
Something just didn’t smell right to Richard Doty. It was 1976 when the director of the Smell and Taste Center at Penn’s School of Medicine first started raising a stink about the existence of pheromones.
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Emphasizing the human in ‘human rights’
The United States, although widely recognized as a bastion of freedom and democracy, does not get an automatic “A” on its human rights report card.
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Joseph Turow of Penn’s Annenberg School Selected as a National Communication Distinguished Scholar
PHILADELPHIA –- Joseph Turow, a professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, has been named a Distinguished Scholar by the National Communication Association. Created in 1991, the Distinguished Scholar award recognizes a lifetime of scholarly achievement in the study of human communication. Turow, whose research focuses on media systems, privacy, targeted marketing and media and social segmentation, will receive his award during the NCA annual convention, Nov. 14-17, in San Francisco.
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The election of JFK, 50 years later
Fifty years ago this month, a junior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts became the youngest person ever elected to the presidency and the second-youngest to hold the job. John F. Kennedy’s presidency was bookended by a narrow victory in 1960 over then-Vice President Richard Nixon (featuring the first televised debates) and his tragic assassination in November of 1963. Today, Kennedy remains one of the most admired and beloved presidents in history, coming in third on a 2007 Gallup Poll list behind Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan.
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Connecting cell phones with medicine in Botswana
Photo credit: Ryan Littman-Quinn When a nurse at a clinic in rural Botswana sees an HIV patient with a worrisome skin condition, she snaps a photo with her mobile phone and emails it to a dermatologist for a second opinion.
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Distortions in Genetic Research News: The Rocky Road From Science Journal to the News
PHILADELPHIA (November 11, 2010) – News stories about cancer research in the mass media often do not fairly represent the original science. The primary source of this problem seems to occur in the transmission of information from press release to final news story, although the process of turning highly technical scientific research into a press release is itself fraught with errors.
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Employee tuition benefits are facing major tax change
One of the joys of working at Penn is the ability to earn an advanced degree using the University’s graduate tuition benefit. However, employees planning to use the benefit this spring should be aware of an impending tax change that may affect their tax bills.
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The origin of equations
Creation or evolution? It’s not a question most people associate with the development of mathematics. But the debate exists in the world of numbers and reason. Are the patterns that comprise mathematics simply a productof human intellect? Does mathematics reflect the physical universe in a manner that is independent of its observation? Is mathematics separable from both the psychological and physical universes?
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By Focusing on Reducing Disease Risk, “Desktop Medicine” will Transform the Practice of Medicine
Gone are the days when a doctor’s only way of helping patients is by treating the disease after symptoms have started. Instead, a new approach to medicine, called “Desktop Medicine” is emerging, in which the emphasis shifts from diagnosing diseases and treating symptoms to identifying risk-factors for medical conditions such as hypertension and osteoporosis, and intervening before they develop. The commentary appears in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Pan Asian American Community House celebrates 10th anniversary
Penn President Amy Gutmann joins PAACH members and staff in celebrating the Center's 10th anniversary. The Pan Asian American Community House (PAACH) is celebrating 10 years of serving as a cultural resource center at Penn.