Mele and Speck are a part of the 100 new members and 25 foreign associates in the distinguished Academy.
The Basser Center’s work helps to prevent the development of BRCA mutations — the phenomena which make a person more susceptible to certain cancers, including breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer.
Citizen, a company based in New York, designed an app to provide users with information about 911 emergencies in real time. The app launched in the Philadelphia area on April 16.
The certificate program is free for current SP2 students, while SP2 alumni will need to pay $159 for the four-course program or $49 for each individual course.
Wawa won its bid for two liquor licenses, paying the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board $186,357 for a location in Philadelphia and $160,357 for a location in Delaware County.
Researchers from Penn Nursing determined that the nurse work environment provides the foundation of a positive hospital environment.
The study ranked Los Angeles first place of the 30 major metropolitan areas surveyed. Pittsburgh was No. 13, Washington D.C. was No. 20, and New York was No. 23.
Chemistry professor Jessica Anna and Mathematics professor Davi Maximo are among 126 Sloan Fellows in the United States and Canada. Each will receive $70,000 for a two-year research period.
The donation from the Katz Fund will help expand the program and advance the quality of the Wharton People Lab's research and development plans.
Ashmore was previously an associate professor at Penn and associate curator for the American Section of the Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology.
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