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Penn Study Demonstrates Wearable Sensors to Detect Firearm Use

Penn Study Demonstrates Wearable Sensors to Detect Firearm Use

A new study from the University of Pennsylvania demonstrates that wearable sensors could one day transform the correctional system by tracking gun use by community-based offenders, who account for a disproportionate share of fatal and non-fatal shootings.

Jacquie Posey

Learning Lessons by Integrating Sustainability in the Classroom at Penn

Learning Lessons by Integrating Sustainability in the Classroom at Penn

As an environmental studies major at the University of Pennsylvania, Kinsey Miller already knew about many sustainability issues. But, after spending the summer as a researcher in the Penn Green Campus Partnership’s Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum program, her interests have expanded further.

Jeanne Leong

Penn Blends Art and Science With Network Visualization Program

Penn Blends Art and Science With Network Visualization Program

By Madeleine Stone  @themadstoneScience and art are often perceived to be at odds with each other, two fundamentally different ways of understanding the world. But University of Pennsylvania researcher Danielle Bassett believes science and art can inform each other in very tangible ways.

Evan Lerner

Penn Announces Launch of President’s Engagement Prizes

Penn Announces Launch of President’s Engagement Prizes

University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann today announced the launch of the President’s Engagement Prizes, competitively awarded annual prizes for Penn seniors to design and undertake fully funded local, national or global engagement projects during the first year after they graduate.
Penn Paleontologists Describe a Possible Dinosaur Nest and Young ‘Babysitter’

Penn Paleontologists Describe a Possible Dinosaur Nest and Young ‘Babysitter’

Dinosaurs are often depicted as giant, frightening beasts. But every creature is a baby once. A new examination of a rock slab containing fossils of 24 very young dinosaurs and one older individual is suggestive of a group of hatchlings overseen by a caretaker, according to a new study by University of Pennsylvania researchers.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Senior Leads Penn Women’s Ice Hockey Club Into the 2014-15 Season

Senior Leads Penn Women’s Ice Hockey Club Into the 2014-15 Season

Alyssa Johncola is an unstoppable force at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s the president, right winger and former substitute goalie of the women’s ice hockey team, a club made up of both graduate and undergraduate students at Penn.