The Green Campus Partnership at the University of Pennsylvania is looking to score a zero in support of the Red and Blue at this year’s QuakerFest. The group’s aim is to make the traditional alumni tailgate held before the Homecoming football game a “zero-waste” event to score big gains for ...
Green Campus Partnership at Penn Looks to Score a Big Zero at QuakerFest
Posted On Saturday, November 9, 2013 By USA Education News. Under PENNSYLVANIA Tags: Alumni Relations, Franklin Field, Green Campus Partnership, Penn Dining’s Green-to-Go containers, Zero at QuakerFest
The Green Campus Partnership at the University of Pennsylvania is looking to score a zero in support of the Red and Blue at this year’s QuakerFest. The group’s aim is to make the traditional alumni tailgate held before the Homecoming football game a “zero-waste” event to score big gains for ...
International Research Team Weighs in on the Negative Consequences of Noise on Overall Health
Posted On Friday, November 1, 2013 By USA Education News. Under PENNSYLVANIA Tags: Department of Psychiatry at Penn, ICBEN, Mathias Basner, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
The combined toll of occupational, recreational and environmental noise exposure poses a serious public health threat going far beyond hearing damage, according to an international team of researchers writing this week in The Lancet. The review team, including a Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania expert, examined ...
NROTC Battalion at Penn Celebrates 238 Years of Naval History
Posted On Thursday, October 17, 2013 By USA Education News. Under PENNSYLVANIA Tags: Franklin Field, Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps, Navy’s 238th birthday, NROTC battalion, University of Pennsylvania
With an early morning six-mile run through the streets of Philadelphia, the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Pennsylvania commemorated the Navy’s 238th birthday, Oct. 16.
More than 80 runners from Penn and from Drexel and Temple universities who are currently serving as officer candidates in the NROTC ...
Penn Engineering’s GRASP Lab and Wharton’s Mack Institute Take the Y-Prize Global
Posted On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 By USA Education News. Under PENNSYLVANIA Tags: Daniel Koditschek, GRASP lab, Mack Institute, Mark Yim, Vijay Kumar, Wharton School’s, Y-Prize Competition
Last year, the GRASP lab at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Wharton School’s Mack Institute helped take cutting-edge robots out of the lab and into the marketplace through the Y-Prize Competition.
Now, they have now joined forces with crowdsourcing platform Marblar and intellectual property ...
Penn Public Safety to Host Campus Fire Safety and Emergency Preparedness Day
Posted On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 By USA Education News. Under PENNSYLVANIA Tags: Division of Public Safety, fire and emergency services team, Philadelphia Fire Department, University of Pennsylvania
As a part of a national campaign, the University of Pennsylvania’s Division of Public Safety and the Philadelphia Fire Department will hold its annual Campus Fire Safety and Emergency Preparedness Day Friday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
But something a little different is happening this year.
Not only have ...
Penn Medicine: Balancing Act: Cell Senescence, Aging Related to Epigenetic Changes
Posted On Sunday, September 1, 2013 By USA Education News. Under PENNSYLVANIA Tags: Cell and Developmental Biology, nucleic acid bases, Parisha Shah, Penn Epigenetics Program, Shelley Berger
One way cells promote tumor suppression is through a process called senescence, an irreversible arrest of proliferation. Senescence is thought to be associated with normal aging, but is also a protective measure by the body against run-away cell replication. Studying the basic science of senescence gives biomedical researchers a better ...
Minor and Major: Penn Study Finds A New Gene Expression Mechanism
Posted On Saturday, August 24, 2013 By USA Education News. Under PENNSYLVANIA Tags: Expression Mechanism, Gideon Dreyfuss, Howard Hughes, Medical Institute Investigator, Perelman School of Medicine
A rare, small RNA turns a gene-splicing machine into a switch that controls the expression of hundreds of human genes. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and professor of Biochemistry Gideon Dreyfuss, PhD, and his team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, discovered an entirely new ...
Tumors Form Advance Teams to Ready Lungs for Spread of Cancer, Finds Penn Study
Posted On Saturday, August 17, 2013 By USA Education News. Under PENNSYLVANIA Tags: Cancer Biology, Lungs for Spread of Cancer, Perelman School of Medicine, Sandra Ryeom, University of Pennsylvania
Cancer metastasis requires tumor cells to acquire properties that allow them to escape from the primary tumor site, travel to a distant place in the body, and form secondary tumors. But first, an advance team of molecules produced by the primary tumor sets off a series of events that create ...
Millar Picked as Lightweights Captain Shepherd Named Commodore
Posted On Friday, August 9, 2013 By USA Education News. Under PENNSYLVANIA Tags: Adam Millar, EARC Sprints, IRA Regatta, Lightweights Captain, Nick Baker
Rising junior Adam Millar was selected by his teammates to serve as team captain of the University of Pennsylvania lightweights in 2013-14 as announced by head coach Nick Baker on Monday. Rising senior Sam Shepherd was chosen as commodore.
"The team made two great selections in Adam and Sam," said Baker, ...
Penn Medicine Study Sheds Light on Why Low-Income Patients….
Posted On Thursday, July 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under PENNSYLVANIA Tags: Health Affairs, hospital care, Perelman School of Medicine, socioeconomic status, University of Pennsylvania
Penn Medicine Study Sheds Light on Why Low-Income Patients Prefer Hospital Care to a Doctor's Office.
Patients with low socioeconomic status use emergency and hospital care more often than primary care because they believe hospital care is more affordable and convenient, and of better quality than care provided by primary care ...
Higher Education Is Getting Increasingly Pricier Globally These Days
Posted On Friday, July 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT, FEATURED, HAWAII, ILLINOIS, INDIANA, KANSAS, KENTUCKY, LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, MISSOURI, MONTANA, NEVADA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, NEW MEXICO, NORTH DAKOTA, PENNSYLVANIA, WASHINGTON DC Tags: Corporate Scholarships, Government Scholarships, Important Scholarships, Lottery Scholarships, PhD/Doctorate Scholarships, Post Doctoral Scholarships, Trusts Scholarships, University Scholarships
Higher education is getting increasingly pricier globally these days. It is going past the reach for many students who are excellent in studies but cannot afford the cost of higher education. These students use scholarships, financial grants, and aids as tool to overcome their shortcoming. And, it works wonders. Scholarships are ...
