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Penn received $3.7 million to build a new center for mental health research
By the time current pre-med undergraduates attend medical school, they will be studying completely new primary health curricula, thanks to Penn's new Center for Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care.
Civic house lecturer pushes to acknowledge expertise outside of academia
“I speak as a practitioner who has stumbled, fallen and experimented with a lot of things”. Welcomed by a sea of applause, Nadinne Cruz stepped up onto the podium and greeted her audience, adding "it's a beautiful night" in Tagalog.
Penn's medical school uses active learning in its classes, too
The University of Vermont’s medical school just announced that it plans to become the first medical school to abolish lecture courses and replace them with at-home videos and "active-learning" classrooms.
Penn received $3.7 million to build a new center for mental health research
By the time current pre-med undergraduates attend medical school, they will be studying completely new primary health curricula, thanks to Penn's new Center for Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care.
Civic house lecturer pushes to acknowledge expertise outside of academia
“I speak as a practitioner who has stumbled, fallen and experimented with a lot of things”. Welcomed by a sea of applause, Nadinne Cruz stepped up onto the podium and greeted her audience, adding "it's a beautiful night" in Tagalog.
Antidepressants could delay Alzheimer's, according to Penn Prof.
Perelman School of Medicine professor Yvette Sheline studied the brains of people with a history of depression, but may have discovered another benefit to antidepressants.
A Penn study failed to find a link between reading fiction and improved social cognition
“I still have the feeling that reading is good, even thought we haven’t been able to prove this aspect scientifically,” one of the co-authors said.
PennSound's Peter Gizzi is a finalist for a major poetry award
In writing Archeophonics, Gizzi said he wanted to “bring back the cadences of the past."
A Penn study found a link between unpredictable schedules and stress
Unpredictable schedules can have negative impacts on the health of an individual working in the service sector.
Online digital access codes are 'the new, dangerous face of the textbook monopoly,' study says
Once a code is used, it cannot be reused by another student.
Inside Penn's new $24 million virtual science center
Penn was just awarded a $24 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a Science and Technology Center.
Finding your place at Penn when your academic program is a 'well-kept secret'
For 87 years Penn has offered a coordinated degree with the oldest art school and art museum in the country.
Annenberg tool measures how voters learn from presidential debates
The Annenberg Public Policy Center is teaming up with Internet Archive, a digital library with access to books, movies and archived web pages, to answer how news organizations cover the issues brought up in presidential debates.
The future's looking good for online learning
Last week, Penn hosted the Third Annual Learning with MOOCs conference, bringing together leaders in the mass learning system.
A Wharton professor found that students receiving grants earn higher grades than students who take out loans
Students who received only grants performed significantly better in college — with GPAs between 0.8 and 0.15 points higher.
Art and satire magazine 'Bluff' launched by College senior
College Senior Abigail Lowenthal is the founder of a new humor magazine on campus called Bluff.
Women leaders in tech return to Penn to share wisdom
The three speakers at the Women in Tech panel represented sectors within tech and media, including broadband, video chat and virtual reality.
Profs. plan to euthanize turtles that have taken over the BioPond
The red-eared slider, a mid-size turtle native to the southeastern United States and an invasive species in Pennsylvania, has taken over the BioPond.
Quechua classes give students a look into indigenous culture
While most people know what Hebrew is, few would recognize Quechua. But just as many people — about six to eight million — speak each language.



















