Insidious ARDS
Few people outside the medical world have heard of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, even though it kills more Americans than breast cancer and often leaves survivors in various stages of disability. Some Penn-related physicians and researchers are working hard to blunt its impact.
Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative Launched
$16.3 million for new Neuroscience of Behavior Initiative
Findings
Beyond Bitterness and The Altai-America Express
The Healing Game
What happens when a physician won’t let go.
Penn’s quadrotors go to TED2012, start a band
The little quadrotor robots have been keeping busy lately.
Climate Change, Dark Ages, and Armchair Disaster Prediction
Looking to the past for lessons on climate change
Findings
By the Skin of the Heart...And By the Tail of the Skin, plus Low Birth Weight, High Autism Risk
Reprogrammed Immune Cells Vanquish Cancer in Promising Breakthrough
T-cell “serial killers” offer new hope for cancer treatment
Researchers at Penn receive $1.5 million NOAA grant
Penn team will try to find how sea-level rise varies spatially.
The Perils of Parenting Style
Penn sociologist Annette Lareau says that the way middle class parents interact with their children promotes an “emerging sense of entitlement” that better equips them for success in the world.
Insurance Without Access
For children, public health insurance is no panacea.
The Long View of Shifting Sea Levels
Penn researchers confirm rising sea levels
Findings
Follow the Leader and SpongeBob SugarPusher
Dino Detectives
Penn paleontologists determine pigmentation of 100 million-year-old fossils.
An end to the debate?
Penn researchers prove that sea level is rising faster now than it has for the past two millennia.
The Debunker Debunked
Samuel Morton (Class of 1820) is vindicated.
T-minus Six Days
Catch the Philadelphia Science Festival before it ends.
Untangling Alzheimer’s
A remarkable collection of Penn scientists, led by Virginia Lee and John Trojanowski, is attacking the merciless affliction known as Alzheimer’s, along with other neurodegenerative diseases. But the clock is ticking.
Warning: Robot Construction Ahead
Meet the quadrotor, a four-propeller helicopter-style creature that lately has been whizzing around Penn’s GRASP robotics lab with increasing sophistication.
Hope for the thinning crowd
Back in 1992, when Dr. George Cotsarelis landed a research fellowship looking at cancer amidst scalp stem cells, he didn’t expect to stumble on a treatment for male pattern baldness.
New Doors to Invention
From College Hall | Student research projects develop critical skills—and could change the world.
$15 Million Gift to Expand Retailing Center
$15 million gift will endow Baker Retailing Center
The Ethics of Early Intersex Intervention
Brownlee lecturer: “Should we be afraid of big clitorises?”
On Hearths, Ancient and Modern
In which the author takes a break from the rigors of her own ethnographic research in France’s Dordogne region to visit with eminent Penn archaeologist Harold Dibble as he plumbs the mysteries of early human and Neandertal behavior—and plots his next gourmet meal.