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Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that a dietary antioxidant found in such vegetables as broccoli and cauliflower protects cells from damage caused by chemicals generated during the body’s inflammatory response to infection and injury. Th...

Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh, Executive Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System, and Dean, School of Medicine, will receive the Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAM...

While studying how the heart is formed, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine serendipitously found a novel cellular source of atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common type of abnormal heart beat. Jonathan Epstein, MD, William Wikoff Smith Professor, and C...

Enrolling in a weight loss program with a family member or friend appears to enhance weight loss among African Americans, but only if the involved partner attends sessions frequently or also loses weight, according to a report in the October 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Obe...

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers, along with colleagues at the University of Washington and the University of Toronto, have received $8 million for stem-cell research. The Penn group is one of nine research hubs awarded $170 million over the next seven years b...

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine investigators are among the 42 recipients of a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) award that encourages investigators to challenge the status quo with innovative ideas. NIH expects to make competing awards totaling $30 million to t...

New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA., September 25, 2009 --ESPN and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced today a three-year agreement centering on Wharton’s Interactive Media Initiative (WIMI). The agreement will provide ESPN with access to WIMI’s expert...

NEW YORK, September 30, 2009 – Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Ltd., announced today that it has partnered with Knowledge@Wharton to create a global innovation tournament. The objective of this tournament is to select the best and the most innovative tech...

Aromatase inhibitors, the same drugs that have buoyed long-term survival rates among breast cancer patients, also carry side effects including joint pain so severe that many patients discontinue these lifesaving medicines. New University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine resear...

New York, NY, September 16, 2009 – The Center for Business Education at the Aspen Institute announced today that Prof. Thomas Donaldson of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has been named the 2009 Faculty Pioneer for Lifetime Achievement. This recognition program,...

University of Pennsylvania geneticist Sarah A. Tishkoff, PhD is among 18 recipients of the 2009 National Institutes of Health’s Pioneer Award. Tishkoff, the David and Lyn Silfen University Associate Professor and a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, is a leading global expert in hu...

A brain-preserving cooling treatment called therapeutic hypothermia is a cost-effective way to improve outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, which claims the lives of more than 300,000 people each year in the United States and leaves thousands of others neurologically d...

More pieces in the complex autism inheritance puzzle are emerging in the latest study from a research team including geneticists from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and several collaborating institutions. This st...

Philadelphia, Pa., June 22, 2009 -- The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced an agreement with the Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training (CERT), a preeminent private education provider in the Middle East. Cornerstones of the agreement between Wh...

 PA Nando Micale, an urban planner and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, used Cherry Hill's redevelopment study as a real-world classroom for his students. "Typically, the problems we work on in the workshop are ...

Gloucester County Times - NJ.com, NJ He had previously received his undergraduate degree in Psychology from Penn State University, State College, Pa. JENNIFER L. WEATHERSBY, Havertown, Pa., has made the Millersville University of Pennsylvania spring 2009 Dean's List. ...

 PA According to Finegan, the center will help students as well as faculty members to explore opportunities for civic engagement and community service within the classroom, around the IUP campus, in the community and in the global community.

 PA There's a notebook from a University of Pennsylvania shop, another bearing a map of New Jersey, at least two with Snoopy on the cover. One orange composition book has lines on the cover for the user to fill in a name, address, and subject. ...

 PA Mary Beth Gasman, an associate professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania, said she hoped the advisory panel focused on retention for students' sake, but also for the school's viability. "It helps with alumni giving and corporate giving ...

Dr. Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has demonstrated that the stock market is the best long-term grower of wealth -- better than cash, bonds, or even gold, no matter what kind of volatility, bubbles, and crashes we ...

subscription), DC Eisenberg is a 2006 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he received a degree in American politics. A native of Philadelphia, Eisenberg first joined the Majority Leader's staff two years ago. Rounding out recent staff changes is Jessica ...

These are things students can't take on an airplane," Barbara Lea-Kruger of the University of Pennsylvania said. and more »

 PA Keno has received a partial scholarship to play volleyball for California University of Pennsylvania. "I've been looking at California since I was a sophomore," Keno said. "The campus is really nice, and the volleyball team is really good. ...

 PA Her voice opened up a whole new world of possibilities, and after high school she left for Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in vocal performance. She thought about becoming an opera singer, but that changed when she joined a vocal ...

 PA A graduate of Millersville University and the University of Pennsylvania, Schreiber joined the New Era in 1974, becoming editor in 2000. He lives in Lancaster Township with his wife, Jo-Ann, and a son. Stauffer, a Penn State University graduate, ...

Since 2000, nearly 1,000 "retail clinics" – offering routine care like sports physicals and immunizations and treatment for minor illnesses like strep throat – have opened their doors inside pharmacies and grocery stores across the United States. Retail chain operators proposed tha...

 United States These include four of the eight Ivy League schools — the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton, Brown and Harvard universities — and other prominent institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan and the ...

Jill M. Baren, MD, MBE, an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, will today become president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the nation’s largest organization devoted to research and education...

 PA Music students from Indiana University of Pennsylvania played for one concert, and last year an orchestra from Slippery Rock University played for their performance of Verdi's Requiem. Negri and his trio will play for the Mass of Hope, with Negri on ...

 PA Plus, the region has the state-sponsored University of Pittsburgh, Slippery Rock University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. A wealth of health care institutions also helps render the Pittsburgh region "kind of recession-proof," said Pat ...

 United States - On Tuesday, Amy Gutmann, the president of the University of Pennsylvania, and her husband made a $100000 gift to the university to support undergraduate ... Washington State's 2 Well-Paid University Presidents Opt to Cut ... Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)

By Sarah Lai Stirland This March at a telecom policy conference in Hollywood, for example, Crawford bluntly told Ambassador Richard Russell, the White House' associate director on science and technology policy, that he lived in a fantasyland when he asserted that the United States' roll-out of broadband...

By Jon “Giving Barack Obama an official helping hand are Susan Crawford,  well-known blogger, professor of law at the University of Michigan and and not-so-well-known viola aficionado, and Kevin Werbach, assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at the University of Penns...

A PRIOR conference focuses on the mortgage crisis, the public finance arena, financial regulation and the responsibility of the U.S. Congress. With keynotes by former Congressman James Leach, Princeton economist Alan Blinder and Wharton School Professor Susan M. Wachter. Pt 5: PUTTING I...

Dr. Joshua Gold is Assistant Professor at the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Samuel Wang is Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Neuroscience at Princeton University, and author of Welcome to Your Brain. We're also joined by Carroll Doherty fr...

University of Pennsylvania Law School. 10. Boston University School of Law. Notice that Yale Law School isn't on this "best career prospects" list. I dare somebody to get into Boston College and Yale and go to Boston College because ...

Honors & Other Things  PA - The University of Pennsylvania has been named a Top Wired College by The Princeton Review and PC Magazine’s “Most Connected Campuses” rankings. ...

By James Yu Everyone is getting into the college rankings game these days, and everyone - it seems - has the same goal in mind: to dethrone the juggernaut that is the U.S. News & World Report. But while students and alums of certain liberal arts colleges and lesser-known universities are probably re...

 PA - Andrew graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and earned graduate credits from Washington & Jefferson College and Penn State University. ...

By Erna Mahyuni After the drama that ensued about Microsoft putting out the Vista Service Pack 1 only to take it back, comes more bad news. The University of Pennsylvania’s tech support reportedly advised its faculty and students not to upgrade to Vista SP1. InformationWeek’s Paul McDougall had the lowd...

Local dredging companies question value of fish surveys Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - The Fish and Boat Commission, via contracts with Penn State University and California University of Pennsylvania, is conducting surveys to determine which ...

By Elliott Back Harvard University University of Pennsylvania Upenn’s latin motto has had an interesting history. It was first “Sine Moribus Vanae” but a troublesome student translated it as “Loose women without morals,” so it was changed to its current “Leges sine moribus vanae” which means in Engli...

By Steve Verdon A professor at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of business has challenged Al Gore to a bet over global temperatures. The bet is for $10,000 and the professor, Scott Armstrong, is betting that global mean temperatures will be pretty much as they are now, while Al Gore will hav...

By naina As many of you already know, Kalpen Modi will be teaching two undergraduate courses at the University of Pennsylvania in spring of 2008, one on Asian Americans in the Media and the other on American Teen Films. But unlike Hetal and Kapila, it looks as though some Penn students aren't too cra...

A recent piece by Paul Farhi in the Washington Post notes that the test scores of American students on international tests are not nearly as poor as some critics would claim. According to two researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, cited by Farhi, Americans are above average when c...

By Joshua Rich Okay, my constant yearning to return to college got even yearnier today when I read the news that Kal Penn will be a visiting instructor at the University of Pennsylvania next year. Dude! Yep, our very own one-time stoner Kumar, who headed out to White Castle one day and returned one of the ho...

Muslims in the Pennsylvania area are seething over plans to relocate a liquor store closer to the University of Pennsylvania—because there’s also a mosque nearby: Potential move brings potential conflict. (Hat tip: Mike.) The Masjid Al-Jamia Mosque is located at 4228 Walnut St., while t...

By Michael Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have described a new type of nervous system interface that could be "linked to the patient's thoughts, providing two-way signaling for motor control and feedback from multiple external stimuli."

A University of Pennsylvania professor was named a suspect in the murder of his wife, who was found bludgeoned to death in their home....

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine completed a study in mice in which they used ultrasound both to see a tumor's blood perfusion ... Ultrasound Used in Mice Cancer Treatment All Headline News Ultrasound may help zap cancer Newindpress