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Carnegie Mellon University and Penn Engineering Receive $3.5 Million for Innovative Transportation Research

Carnegie Mellon University and Penn Engineering Receive $3.5 Million for Innovative Transportation Research

PITTSBURGH — The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering and the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science a $3.5 million grant for the next two years to conduct research and implement technologies for improving the safety and efficiency of transportation.

Katherine Unger Baillie , Chriss Swaney

Governor Proposes Commonwealth Funding for Penn Vet for 2012-13

Governor Proposes Commonwealth Funding for Penn Vet for 2012-13

PHILADELPHIA -- Governor Tom Corbett’s FY2012-2013 Commonwealth budget proposes funding of $26.7 million for the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine, the only veterinary  school in Pennsylvania and one of only 28 veterinary schools in the United States.  The recommended funding is equal to the support received for FY2011-2012. 

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn Researchers Uncover a Mechanism to Explain Dune Field Patterns

Penn Researchers Uncover a Mechanism to Explain Dune Field Patterns

PHILADELPHIA — In a study of the harsh but beautiful White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, University of Pennsylvania researchers have uncovered a unifying mechanism to explain dune patterns.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn Receives NSF Grant to Research Geological Record of Chilean Earthquakes

Penn Receives NSF Grant to Research Geological Record of Chilean Earthquakes

PHILADELPHIA — Geological evidence of earthquakes and tsunamis aids in anticipating the timing and magnitude of future events. This natural warning system now influences building codes and planning in the United States, Canada and Japan, particularly where the geological record demonstrates prehistoric earthquakes larger than those known from written and instrumental records.

Evan Lerner

Penn Anthropologists Clarify Link Between Asians and Early Native Americans

Penn Anthropologists Clarify Link Between Asians and Early Native Americans

PHILADELPHIA — A tiny mountainous region in southern Siberia may have been the genetic source of the earliest Native Americans, according to new research by a University of Pennsylvania-led team of anthropologists.

Katherine Unger Baillie