Philadelphia Inquirer

These obese mice lost weight by ‘sweating’ their fat, Penn team finds

Taku Kambayashi and med student Ruth Chao of the Perelman School of Medicine found that they could stimulate fat loss in obese mice by treating the animals with a type of cytokine.

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Philadelphia Business Journal

Penn plans to ramp up diverse, local spending for $1B annual procurement with new program

Chief procurement officer Mark Mills spoke about Penn’s Fueling Business Growth program, which seeks to increase the University’s spending with diverse and minority-owned Philadelphia businesses. “It's just the right thing to do,” he said. “We want to have a supply base that best matches the neighborhood in the city that we are in, so it only makes sense to have that reflected in how we buy.”

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The Hill

Sports are a refuge for children—let's ensure their safety from abuse

Marci Hamilton of the School of Arts & Sciences wrote an opinion piece about the Child Athlete Bill of Rights, a new set of proposed policies to protect young athletes from sexual abuse. The document is “grounded in a simple message: Every child has the right to be safe.”

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9/1

Grass Yoga

Ars Nova Workshop, The Woodlands, and Spirits Up! sponsor a series of free outdoor yoga sessions at The Woodlands. The series doubles as a space to pay homage to the music of the Black Liberation Movement, playing the sounds of John Coltrane, Pharaoh Sanders, and Albert Ayler.

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

The Woodlands, 4000 Woodland Ave.

  • Zelizer named fellow of The British Academy

    Zelizer has been elected as a fellow of The British Academy, a fellowship of over 1400 of the leading minds in humanities and social sciences from the U.K. and overseas.

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  • Sowetan, Black South African newspaper, 1981-2018

    The South African daily newspaper, Sowetan, has been digitized from its start as a commercial newspaper in 1981 through 2018 by Newsbank. 

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    • “All Things Considered,” National Public Radio

    COVID symptoms may linger in some vaccinated people who get infected, study finds

    Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia said that initially, COVID-19 “was billed falsely as a winter respiratory virus that, like influenza, could cause severe and occasionally fatal pneumonia. But this virus is much more than that.”

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    Al Jazeera

    Robinhood and the rise of teenage stock investors

    Cait Lamberton of the Wharton School spoke about the rise, and potential pitfalls, of stock-trading apps. “You’re seeing a medium that was really primarily used for entertainment being used for something else,” she said. “There could be a mixing of entertainment and learning mindsets that could pull younger investors toward less diagnostic information.”

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    Reuters

    Bankruptcy reform debate targets bad corporate actors, popular judges

    During a congressional hearing on bankruptcy reforms, David Skeel of the Law School warned lawmakers that changes could have unforeseen effects once put into practice.

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    Forbes

    The most common causes of memory loss

    Jason Karlawish of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about memory loss, the condition’s symptoms, and seeking diagnosis. “Start with a doctor who knows you well, so a primary care physician,” he said. “Ideally, people go in with someone who knows them well—a spouse, child or close friend—who can speak to what they’ve been seeing.”

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