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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Max Presser Heads Penn’s MERT Team, Protecting Campus and Community
Posted On Thursday, June 13, 2013 By USA Education News. Under PENNSYLVANIA Tags: Max Presser, MERT, Penn students, University of Pennsylvania, West Philadelphia community
When there’s a medical emergency on the University of Pennsylvania campus or in the surrounding West Philadelphia community, the emergency medical technicians who respond are often Penn students. And one of them may well be Max Presser.
The student-run Medical Emergency Response Team, of which Presser is chief, is a group ...
Penn Researchers Integrate Origami and Engineering
Posted On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under PENNSYLVANIA Tags: chemical and biomolecular engineering, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY, materials science and engineering, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
The quintessential piece of origami might be a decorative paper crane, but in the hands of an interdisciplinary University of Pennsylvania research team, it could lead to a drug-delivery device, an emergency shelter, or even a space station.
The Penn team is led by Randall Kamien, a professor in the Department ...
Penn President Amy Gutmann to Speak at Wharton Global Alumni Forum
Posted On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 By USA Education News. Under PENNSYLVANIA Tags: Amy Gutmann, Bold Future of Higher Education, Global Alumni Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann will visit Tokyo to meet with Wharton alumni at its Global Alumni Forum, presenting a keynote address on May 24 at 9:30 a.m. at the Palace Hotel.
Dr. Gutmann will address the value of higher education and speak on Penn’s recent entry into the world ...
Penn Medicine Researchers Identify Four New Genetic Risk Factors for Testicular Cancer
Posted On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 By USA Education News. Under PENNSYLVANIA Tags: Katherine L. Nathanson, Perelman School of Medicine, Peter A. Kanetsky, University of Pennsylvania
A new study looking at the genomes of more than 13,000 men identified four new genetic variants associated with an increased risk of testicular cancer, the most commonly diagnosed type in young men today. The findings from this first-of-its-kind meta-analysis were reported online May 12 in Nature Genetics by researchers ...
