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Penn IUR: Populations Bouncing Back Thanks to Urban ‘Reinvention’

Penn IUR: Populations Bouncing Back Thanks to Urban ‘Reinvention’

A new white paper just released by the Penn Institute for Urban Research, or Penn IUR, finds that after decades of urban decline, U.S. cities are growing again thanks in large part to their transition from an industrial-based economy to a knowledge-based economy.

Deborah Lang

Penn-led Study Resolves Long-disputed Theory About Stem Cell Populations

Penn-led Study Resolves Long-disputed Theory About Stem Cell Populations

Adult stem cells represent a sort of blank clay from which a myriad of different cell and tissue types are molded and as such are of critical importance to health, ageing and disease.  In tissues that turn over rapidly, such as the intestines, the self-renewing nature of stem cells and their susceptibility to cancer-causing mutations has led researchers to postulate that

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn IUR Research Finds Borrowing Constraints Driving Homeownership Declines

Penn IUR Research Finds Borrowing Constraints Driving Homeownership Declines

A new brief just released by the Penn Institute for Urban Research finds that due to current borrowing constraints, many households are renting out of financial necessity rather than by choice. Further, the report finds that these constraints are underlying declining home ownership rates and instability in the housing market.

Deborah Lang

The Journey Is the Destination in Penn Global Seminar

The Journey Is the Destination in Penn Global Seminar

(In the first of a two part series on the University of Pennsylvania’s inaugural Penn Global Seminars, undergraduates share what they learned traveling to Morocco and Zanzibar as part of the study-abroad component of one of the seminar courses.)

Jacquie Posey

PIK Professor Michael Platt Earns $2.9 Million NIH Award for Neural Circuitry Work

PIK Professor Michael Platt Earns $2.9 Million NIH Award for Neural Circuitry Work

Michael Platt of the University of Pennsylvania has received a five-year, $2.9 million Method to Extend Research In Time, or MERIT, award from the National Institute of Mental Health to continue his work on the neural circuits that mediate compl

Michele W. Berger