Penn announces the inaugural Draw Down the Lightning Grant recipients
Awardees include interwoven teams of faculty, students, postdoctoral scholars, and staff with projects anchored at eight schools and 10 academic and administrative centers.
Speaking about cognitive shuffling, a mental exercise to bring on sleep, Jorge I. Mora of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “We need to study this more to be able to fully say, yes, this should be a consistent tool.”
Anti-obesity medication boosts weight loss when behavioral therapy falls short
Adding an anti-obesity medication just one month after behavioral therapy begins—rather than waiting the currently recommended six months—can more than double weight loss for patients who struggle initially with lifestyle changes alone, according to new research published in Nature Medicine from a team at the Perelman School of Medicine.
From left, moderator Brian Rosenwald; former Florida Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo; RealClearPolitics senior elections analyst Sean Trende; former Democratic Pennsylvania Congressman Conor Lamb; Wall Street Journal White House reporter Meridith McGraw; and Dispatch editor Jonah Goldberg.
(Image: Brian Hogan, Penn Libraries)
Exploring the future of the conservative movement
At a roundtable co-sponsored by several Penn institutions, analysts broke down the history of the Republican Party and what to expect moving forward.
Two Philly high schools were chosen for an $8M project to get more kids college and career ready
Two Philadelphia public schools have been chosen to participate in the Academy at Penn, an $8 million project to help hundreds of underserved students access college and career opportunities, with remarks from Dean Katharine O. Strunk of the Graduate School of Education.
Why America has not passed a law to treat addiction better
Ashish Thakrar of the Perelman School of Medicine says that federal regulations prevent him from administering methadone for pain or opioid addiction at his outpatient addiction clinic.
Liliane Weissberg to serve as IZEA Halle's first Mercator Fellow
This Spring, IZEA Halle, the International Center for the Research on the Enlightenment at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, will inaugurate a new program for post-graduates, “Politics of Enlightenment” (Politik der Aufklärung). Weissberg, the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences and professor of German and comparative literature, is the inaugural Mercator Fellow.
Liliane Weissberg to serve as IZEA Halle's first Mercator Fellow
