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New Penn Medicine/Wharton Center to Study Health-care Financing
PHILADELPHIA — University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) is partnering with the Leonard Davis Institute Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics of the University of Pennsylvania on a new initiative to be called the UPHS Center for Innovations in Health Care Financing.
Relationship Between Exercise, Breast Cancer Recurrence to Be Studied by New Penn Med Center
PHILADELPHIA — A $10 million grant from the National Cancer Institute will fund a new center at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania focusing on the relationship between exercise, weight loss, and improving the length and quality of life for the nation's 12 million cancer survivors.
Penn Physicists Undo the ‘Coffee Ring Effect’
PHILADELPHIA — A team of University of Pennsylvania physicists has shown how to disrupt the “coffee ring effect” — the ring-shaped stain of particles left over after coffee drops evaporate — by changing the particles' shape. The discovery provides new tools for engineers to deposit uniform coatings.
Penn Graduate School of Education to Host National Education Writers Association Annual Seminar in 2012
PHILADELPHIA — The Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania is partnering with the American Educational Research Association to host the Education Writers Association’s 2012 national seminar May 17-19 on the Penn campus.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel Appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA -- Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a globally renowned bioethicist, will join the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania as the 13th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, beginning Sept. 1. The announcement was made by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price.
Penn Study Examines Gender Disparities in Injury Mortality; Men at Exceptional Risk
PHILADELPHIA — Men are more likely than die from injury than are women.
Penn Researchers Help Graft Olfactory Receptors onto Nanotubes
PHILADELPHIA — Penn researchers have helped develop a nanotech device that combines carbon nanotubes with olfactory receptor proteins, the cell components in the nose that detect odors.
Penn Study Examines Safe Access to Clean Water in Low-Income Countries
PHILADELPHIA — Susan B.
Penn’s Social Impact of the Arts Project, Philadelphia Receive $250,000 for Arts Mapping
PHILADELPHIA — The Social Impact of the Arts Project, housed at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice, is teaming with the City of Philadelphia to build and launch a Creative Assets Mapping Database, a Web tool that allows users to monitor growth in creative assets and determi
Penn’s Environmental Toxicology Center Part of Group to Analyze Post-Spill Seafood Safety
PHILADELPHIA — Penn's Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET), is part of a consortium that has been awarded $7.85 million from National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to determine seafood safety following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.