11/15
A 10-step model for improving breastfeeding in NICU babies
Much breastfeeding emphasis and education in the United States focuses on healthy infants and their mothers rather than newborns admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Penn Linguists Investigate Language Borrowing in the Field and the Lab
There’s this idea in linguistics called sociolinguistic borrowing, in which one group of people adopts a feature of another group’s dialect. Usually it results from a positive association with the group that originally used the feature. But Betsy Sneller, a fifth-year Ph.D.
Women will compete against self, not others, to improve performance
A woman is less likely to choose competition than a man, even when she performs equally well, unless competing with herself for a better outcome, according to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania, George Mason University and the German Institute for Economic Research or DIW.
Penn Philosophy conference talks Trump, race, and rule of law
Michael Weisberg, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy in the School of Arts & Sciences, is aiming to take a deep analytical look at our current political landscape with the half-day conference “
Diabetes accounts for more U.S. deaths than previously thought
Diabetes accounts for 12 percent of deaths in the United States, a significantly higher percentage than previous research revealed, making it the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer, according to findings from the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University published in
Well-structured organizations can create valuable social connections for disadvantaged students
For much of her life, Amanda Barrett Cox wanted to understand how people use the privilege they were born into or later acquire.
Organizational Structure Creates Valuable Social Connections, Penn Research Shows
The way organizations choose to structure internal relationships among participants can create valuable social connections, if done properly, according to Amanda Barrett Cox, a fourth-year doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, who published her findi
Penn Sociologist Tackles Electronic Health Records, Cybersecurity and Passwords
More than 90 percent of acute care hospitals and more than 75 percent of office-based physicians use electronic health records, or digital versions of patient charts, typi