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Penn Professor Daniel Gillion Receives APSA Best Book Award

Penn Professor Daniel Gillion Receives APSA Best Book Award

Daniel Gillion, University of Pennsylvania assistant professor of political science, has won the American Political Science Association Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section’s 2014 Best Book Award for The Political Power of Protest: Minority Activism and Shifts in Public Policy.

Jacquie Posey

Elvis Is in the House – Penn’s Harrison College House

Elvis Is in the House – Penn’s Harrison College House

As the dean of Harrison College House at the University of Pennsylvania, Frank Pellicone is well known, but it’s his dog, Elvis, who is the big star in the building.“He’s a bit of a character and people come to look for him,” says Pellicone.

Jeanne Leong

GSWS and Alice Paul Center at Penn Announce New Director

GSWS and Alice Paul Center at Penn Announce New Director

The University of Pennsylvania’s Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program and Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women have appointed a new director, Nancy J.

Jacquie Posey

Penn Team Studies Nanocrystals by Passing Them Through Tiny Pores

Penn Team Studies Nanocrystals by Passing Them Through Tiny Pores

An interdisciplinary team of University of Pennsylvania researchers has now applied a cutting-edge technique for rapid gene sequencing toward measuring other nanoscopic structures. By passing nanoscale spheres and rods through a tiny hole in a membrane, the team was able to measure the electrical properties of those structures’ surfaces.

Evan Lerner

Doctoral Research Takes Penn Student to Mountains of Japan for Ascetic Retreats

Doctoral Research Takes Penn Student to Mountains of Japan for Ascetic Retreats

No one can blame Frank Clements if he spends some time catching up on his favorite pastimes watching TV shows on Netflix, reading and running, now that he’s back home from an ascetic research trip to the mountains of Japan.

Jacquie Posey

Penn Research Helps Uncover Mechanism Behind Solid-Solid Phase Transitions

Penn Research Helps Uncover Mechanism Behind Solid-Solid Phase Transitions

Two solids made of the same elements but with different geometric arrangements of the atoms, or crystal phases, can produce materials with different properties. Coal and diamond offer a spectacular example of this effect.

Evan Lerner

Penn Student Seeks Adventure Through Study Abroad

Penn Student Seeks Adventure Through Study Abroad

For University of Pennsylvania senior Olivia Route, some of the most exciting and enriching experiences she’s had as a student have happened while studying abroad.

Jeanne Leong

Penn Research Shows How Brain Can Tell Magnitude of Errors

Penn Research Shows How Brain Can Tell Magnitude of Errors

University of Pennsylvania researchers have made another advance in understanding how the brain detects errors caused by unexpected sensory events. This type of error detection is what allows the brain to learn from its mistakes, which is critical for improving fine motor control.  

Evan Lerner

Penn Study Finds Genetic Mutations Linked With Ethnic Disparities in Cancer

Penn Study Finds Genetic Mutations Linked With Ethnic Disparities in Cancer

One of the goals of genome sequencing is to identify genetic mutations associated with increased susceptibility to disease. Yet by and large these discoveries have been made in people of European or Asian ancestry, resulting in an incomplete picture of global genetic variation in disease vulnerability.

Katherine Unger Baillie