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Arts & Sciences’ Grad Ben Talks give students a chance to shine

Arts & Sciences’ Grad Ben Talks give students a chance to shine

Graduate students in the School of Arts & Sciences (SAS) have a unique chance to showcase their research to peers and the overall Penn community. On Friday, March 17, International House Philadelphia at 3701 Chestnut St. will host the inaugural Grad Ben Talks. 

Michele W. Berger

CHOP/Penn/Boston Children’s Study: Low Blood Sugar No Benefit to Critically Ill Children

CHOP/Penn/Boston Children’s Study: Low Blood Sugar No Benefit to Critically Ill Children

Critically ill infants and children do not gain extra benefit from lower blood-sugar levels, compared to higher levels within the usual care range, according to research from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania

Michele W. Berger

A 10-step model for improving breastfeeding in NICU babies

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).

Michele W. Berger

Penn Linguists Investigate Language Borrowing in the Field and the Lab

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.

Michele W. Berger

Women will compete against self, not others, to improve performance

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.

Michele W. Berger

Penn Philosophy conference talks Trump, race, and rule of law

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 “

Michele W. Berger

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