Michele W. Berger

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 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

For much of her life, Amanda Barrett Cox wanted to understand how people use the privilege they were born into or later acquire.

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

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

When someone breaks a leg or fractures a rib, injuries considered relatively minor, providers often don’t look beyond what’s initially required to help that person heal.

Like most Ph.D. students looking for answers to outstanding questions, Zachary Cohen relied on academic papers and an online community of peers.

 When a 2010 study touted that making a power pose—like a Wonder Woman stance with hands on hips and shoulders back—for just two minutes before an important encounter could boost confidence by increasing certain hormones, it made quite the splash.  In the ensuing years, however, numerous researchers have tried to replicate those findings, to no

When Penn archaeologist Josef Wegner and colleagues first came across structures buried deep beneath the sand in the Egyptian city of Abydos, they anticipated finding more evidence of a pharaoh cemetery

A significant amount of confidential data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other governmental entities will soon become available for free to Penn researchers who qualify because of the University’s part in establishing a new Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) in Philadelphia.