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Cellular Source of Most Common Type of Abnormal Heart Beat Found

02 Nov 2009 08:30:00 PST

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...

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Partners May Help African-Americans Shed More Pounds

27 Oct 2009 13:30:00 PDT

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...

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News: Wipro Technologies Partners with Knowledge@Wharton to Launch Global Innovation Tournament

01 Oct 2009 03:43:03 PDT

NEW YORK, September 30, 2009 â€“ 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...

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Penn Studies Point To Strategies for Reducing Painful Breast Cancer Drug Side Effects

28 Sep 2009 08:00:00 PDT

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...

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Cooling Treatment After Cardiac Arrest Found Cost-Effective: Penn Study

05 Aug 2009 07:50:00 PDT

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...

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Indiana University of Pennsylvania establishes leadership center

14 Jun 2009 23:38:00 PDT

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.

Original story at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review .

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University of Pennsylvania news and blogs - November 09, 2009

09 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit University of Pennsylvania news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Penn Medicine Dean Receives Distinguished Service Award from AAMC -- from Penn Medicine News
• Weight Training Boosts Breast Cancer Survivors’ Body Image and Satisfaction with Intimate Relationships -- from Penn Medicine News
• Gene Predicts Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease Symptoms after Traumatic Brain Injury -- from Penn Medicine News
• Penn Scientists Awarded $8 Million from NIH for Regenerative Medicine Research -- from Penn Medicine News
• Penn Investigators Receive New NIH Award for Transformative Research -- from Penn Medicine News
• Prestigious Institute of Medicine Elects Four New Members from Penn -- from Penn Medicine News
• News: RAND Launches New Financial Literacy Center with Dartmouth College and the Wharton School -- from Wharton News
• News: ESPN's Industry-Leading Research and Analytics Team Launches New Program with Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania -- from Wharton News
• Penn Study: Gun Possession of Questionable Value in an Assault -- from Penn Medicine News
• News: The Aspen Institute Announces Thomas Donaldson As Winner of 2009 Faculty Pioneer Award -- from Wharton News

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Preserving Springsteen oldies, goodies.

14 Jun 2009 00:04:27 PDT

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. ...

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New Era named Pa.'s best mid-sized newspaper

29 May 2009 06:56:06 PDT

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, ...

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Penn Medicine Physician Jill M. Baren To Lead Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

14 May 2009 09:00:00 PDT

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...

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Opinion: Masterworks presents Negri's 'Mass of Hope'

19 Mar 2009 21:02:27 PDT

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 ...

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Opinion: Region weathers recession well

21 Feb 2009 21:03:14 PST

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 ...

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Opinion: Presidents of Colleges Give Back Some Pay

22 Nov 2008 13:20:24 PST

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)

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Obama Science, Tech, Space, Arts Team leads

17 Nov 2008 06:34:19 PST

Written 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...

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Podcast: Pt 5: Regional and National Financial Crises: Roots, Results and Responses

12 Nov 2008 10:00:00 PST

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...

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Podcast: Please Explain: Undecided Voters (The Leonard Lopate Show: Friday, 31 October 2008)

31 Oct 2008 09:10:00 PDT

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...

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Princeton Review Ranks Law Schools Too

06 Oct 2008 15:15:13 PDT

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 ...

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Ivy League Scores Low in Forbes’ College Rankings

15 Aug 2008 19:05:59 PDT

Written 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...

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Opinion: South Fayette teacher had 'dream job' for 35 years

04 Jun 2008 21:08:54 PDT

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

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Patch: University says no to Vista SP1

23 Mar 2008 23:28:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Local dredging companies question value of fish surveys - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

01 Sep 2007 21:02:12 PDT

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 ...

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Ivy League Latin Mottos

28 Jul 2007 04:05:04 PDT

Written 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...

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Opinion: Global Warming Bet

28 Jun 2007 06:44:37 PDT

Written 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...

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Teaching the Many Instead of the Few

01 Apr 2007 21:00:00 PDT

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...

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Professor Kal Penn of U. Penn

27 Mar 2007 14:55:02 PDT

Written 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...

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New Ideas on Developing Thought-Controlled Artificial Limbs

19 Jan 2007 09:53:41 PST

Written 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."

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