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Wednesday, March 13, 2019
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Nine patients at Penn Medicine have been cured of hepatitis C following lifesaving transplants of HCV-infected donor hearts. “Our data suggests the use of hepatitis C-infected hearts—when followed by antiviral therapy—can be a viable option for patients who may otherwise never receive a transplant,” says Rhondalyn McLean, medical director of Penn’s heart transplant program.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/designing-nature-now
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Thanks in large part to the foundation Ian McHarg built, the Weitzman School of Design’s Landscape Architecture Department has led the field for decades. Penn Today dives into how the program is staying relevant as the importance of the profession—one that is central to solving some of the world’s greatest challenges—grows.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/championing-scientifically-driven-energy-policy
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Amy Chu, a postdoc in the School of Arts and Sciences’ Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology, is working to make chemical reactions more sustainable. Chu also consults on a project with the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, where she has seen firsthand the importance of scientist-policymaker partnerships. “I don’t think there’s any other way to address climate change except for scientists to get involved in the more practical aspects,” she says.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/link-between-sleep-genes-and-mental-health
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Whether someone’s a night person or a morning lark can affect their risk of developing a psychiatric disorder, according to a recent study published by Philip Gehrman of the Perelman School of Medicine and others. “In particular,” he says, “being a night owl, especially an extreme night owl, is linked to greater risk of having mental health problems.”
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/student-spotlight-michael-wong
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Wharton senior Michael Wong of Oakland, California, chats about his path to Penn, his time on campus as a first-generation, low-income student, and his passion for entrepreneurship. “I think the concept of building something from nothing always gets me,” says the InstaHub founder.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/prevent-hiv-start-online
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A team led by José Bauermeister of the School of Nursing and the Perelman School of Medicine has created myDEx, an online tool to promote HIV/STI prevention by addressing the cognitive and emotional factors behind sexual decision-making. “Online-delivered HIV prevention interventions present a number of advantages,” explains Bauermeister.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/bridge-phd-program-provides-way-forward-greater-access-stem-fields
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The Bridge to Ph.D. program in the School of Arts and Sciences enables students from underrepresented groups to join the next generation of mathematicians. Faculty adviser Ryan Hynd is encouraged by the students’ success in the pilot program. “Their effort and improvement have been phenomenal,” he says.
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More than 500 medieval scholars from the U.S. and Europe were on campus last weekend for the annual Medieval Academy of America conference. Penn faculty members, including David Wallace of the School of Arts and Sciences, led many of the panels, workshops, and lectures about the Middle Ages.
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#https://medium.com/penn-engineering/from-students-to-sellers-penn-buys-a-wazer-waterjet-cutter-from-alums-7b17ff386413
‘Full circle’ (https://medium.com/penn-engineering/from-students-to-sellers-penn-buys-a-wazer-waterjet-cutter-from-alums-7b17ff386413?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=5812f7fe36-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-5812f7fe36-44504553)
Penn has purchased a WAZER, a pressurized water “laser” invented by alumni of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Notable for its manageable size and relatively accessible price, the tabletop machine can cut materials like steel, marble, and glass. “We started at Penn, and this wouldn’t have happened without the support we got initially from a variety of teachers and students,” says Nisan Lerea (not pictured), one of the inventors. (Video (https://youtu.be/P9d8l09Rqoc?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=5812f7fe36-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-5812f7fe36-44504553) )
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Neighborhood preservation (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/pennpraxis-launches-toolkit-neighborhood-preservation?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=5812f7fe36-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-5812f7fe36-44504553)
PennPraxis’s Neighborhood Preservation Toolkit is set to roll out this spring. The kit “encompasses the whole gamut of neighborhood preservation, all the way from taking care of an individual house, to improving the quality of new construction, supporting small businesses, promoting local engagement, and strengthening social fabric,” says the Weitzman School of Design’s Julie Donofrio, who oversees the program.
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As more Americans begin to openly identify as transgender, many workplaces lack the appropriate policies and accommodations to ensure a safe, comfortable, and inclusive environment. Stephanie Creary and Nancy Rothbard discuss the evolution of gender in the workplace amidst broader social and political change for Knowledge@Wharton.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/linguistic-moonshot-course-kathryn-schuler
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For her new introductory linguistics course, Kathryn Schuler of the School of Arts and Sciences asked 30 undergrads to think big about problems related to language and the brain. Their solutions, like an app to help with injury-related speech challenges and an online American Sign Language video-lecture database, didn’t disappoint.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/cancer-most-frequently-spreads-liver-heres-why
‘Seed and soil’ (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/cancer-most-frequently-spreads-liver-heres-why?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=5812f7fe36-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-5812f7fe36-44504553)
Cancer’s course through the body leads to the liver more often than to any other organ, according to a recent paper from the Perelman School of Medicine published in Nature. Gregory Beatty and doctoral student Jae W. Lee found that hepatocytes, the chief functional cells of the liver, orchestrate the “seed and soil” process for this journey, priming the organ to enable cancer growth.
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StairWELL (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/using-stairwells-wellness?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=5812f7fe36-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-5812f7fe36-44504553)
As part of a Penn Sustainability Green Fund grant, Danielle Cavalcanto (left) and Sara Solomon teamed up for a pilot that tested the impact of beautified stairwells on physical activity and elevator use. Early results have been promising. “For me, working in space planning, I would love it if it was the case that when we’re renovating a building, we start thinking more about the stairs,” Solomon says.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/two-penn-faculty-receive-bbva-foundation-frontiers-knowledge-award
High honors (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/two-penn-faculty-receive-bbva-foundation-frontiers-knowledge-award?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=5812f7fe36-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_26_01_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-5812f7fe36-44504553)
Eugene Mele and Charles Kane of the School of Arts and Sciences are the recipients of the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. Kane and Mele are being recognized for their shared discovery of materials with the “extraordinary property” of being both insulators and conductors.
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In Bethany Wiggin’s multidisciplinary Liquid Histories course for the School of Arts and Sciences, urban studies students are examining how sea-level rise in a time of climate change is transforming urban environments from the banks of the Schuylkill River to the shores of Mumbai. Liquid Histories is one part of a larger undertaking called Rising Waters: Philadelphia and Mumbai, a research project exploring river and coastal cities.
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