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Penn study links nurse education, environment to breast milk consumption
A mother’s breast milk contains nutrients and immunological benefits important for every newborn, a fact recently confirmed by the U.S. surgeon general and the World Health Organization. For very low birth weight (VLBW) infants—babies born weighing 3.3 pounds or less—in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), not consuming breast milk can have potentially devastating consequences.
Penn Nursing Research: Exceptional Care Requires Patient-driven Education
We’ve all been there: Sitting in a consultation with a doctor or nurse, jargon gets thrown around, time with the health-care provider is short and, soon after the conversation concludes, you forget half of what you were told.
Kindness, Charitable Behavior Influenced by Amygdala, Penn Research Reveals
The amygdala, a small structure at the front end of the brain’s temporal lobe, has long been associated with negative behaviors generally, and specifically with fear. But new research from Michael Platt, the James S.
Robots in the city: The future of automation
Driverless cars aren’t just the stuff of science fiction anymore; some manufacturers say autonomous vehicles are less than five years away.
AIDS Treatment Benefits Health, Economics of People Without HIV, Penn Study Shows
In rural Malawi, roughly 10 percent of the adult population has HIV.
Pennant initiative brings Penn record-keeping into 21st century
In October, the Next Generation Student Systems (NGSS) team, led by Michael Kearney of Information Systems & Computing and Robert Tisot of Student Registration and Financial Services, successfully launched the first of three major initiatives, a new student billing s
Linguists at Penn Document Philadelphia ‘Accent’ of American Sign Language
Jami Fisher, a lecturer in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Linguistics, has a long history with American Sign Language.
Teens Know Dangers of Driving and Cellphone Use, Yet Do It Anyway, Penn Research Shows
What happens when “Tom Hanks,” “Tom Cruise” and “Kesha” sit around a table? When the talkers are actually teens using researcher-requested pseudonyms they chose to anonymously discuss their driving habits, the results are surprising, maybe even more so than if the real celebrities got together.
Penn’s Engheta and Ghrist Earn National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowships
When the Department of Defense offers researchers the chance to think big and take risks, and provides the funding to back it up, scientists tend to get really excited.
Penn experts weigh in on Dutch climate change ruling
As the world prepares for another global conversation about climate change at the annual Conference of Parties (COP21) conference in Paris in December, a court decision in the Netherlands has added a new twist.