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Wednesday, September 5, 2018
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Through PennQuest, an outdoor pre-orientation program, new Quakers can backpack in the Delaware River Gap area of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and create unforgettable bonds. This year more than a hundred students took part in the 26-year-old program, easing themselves into college life. (Photos (https://www.flickr.com/photos/universityofpennsylvania/sets/72157699077556861?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=3ecb040a5d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-3ecb040a5d-44504553) )
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/squirmy-slimy-crunchy-new-potential-staple-american-diet
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Insects should become a staple of the American diet and diets the world over. That’s what Paul Rozin of the School of Arts and Sciences argues in a Q&A, in which he also discusses how it’s possible to get past the ick factor of eating bugs—the key is exposure—and how the insects actually taste. It’s all part of his research focusing on the emotion of disgust as it relates to food.
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Sara Bachman has been named dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice, effective January 1. President Amy Gutmann says Bachman “is passionately committed to integrating the perspectives and tools of multiple disciplines and professions … to strengthen and advance social work, social policy, social change, and social justice.” The new dean comes to Penn from Boston University where, among many responsibilities, she directed the Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health.
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The Class of 2021 and Class of 2020 shared their sophomore year experiences—looking forward and looking back—as part of the annual sophomore and junior picnic. President Amy Gutmann hosted the welcome back event. (photos (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/sophomore-and-junior-picnic-focuses-friends?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=3ecb040a5d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-3ecb040a5d-44504553) )
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/university-pennsylvania-announces-2018-2019-perry-world-house-fellows
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Perry World House, Penn’s global policy research institute, named nine of its 2018-19 Fellows. Among them are former Mexico president Felipe Calderón, former national security advisors H.R. McMaster and Susan Rice, and former U.S. Rep. Charles Dent. President Amy Gutmann said Perry World House and the Fellows “give our students and scholars alike an unrivaled opportunity to learn from and collaborate with some of the most powerful and experienced players on the international stage.”
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While studying abroad in Brisbane, Australia, rising senior and nursing student Katherine Putnam of Littleton, Mass., focused on making memories. She traveled and carved out time around classes and clinical placement to visit the attractions and sights she wanted to see.
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#https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/first-its-kind-parkinsons-disease-biomarker-guidelines-invigorates-drive-treatments
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Treatments for Parkinson’s disease are most effective when administered early. Biomarkers, such as proteins in the blood, are one way that doctors can catch the disease before it progresses, and researchers led by Alice Chen-Plotkin of the Perelman School of Medicine are shaping the future of biomarker studies.
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President Amy Gutmann helped kick off the inaugural Day of Play, which brought a bit of fun to the first day of classes this year. The event featured trivia, games, meditation, crafting, photo ops, and snow cones on College Green. (Photos (https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/day-play-adds-some-fun-first-day-classes?utm_source=Primary&utm_campaign=3ecb040a5d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_16_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3777f2ca8f-3ecb040a5d-44504553) )
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After overcoming her own opioid addiction, Nicole O’Donnell is now helping others do the same. As a certified recovery specialist at the Perelman School of Medicine, she draws on her personal experience to forge unique and trusting relationships with those on the path to recovery.
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Wild apes harbor malarial parasites that are nearly identical to those that cause disease in humans, according to research led by the Perelman School of Medicine’s Beatrice Hahn and grad student Dorothy Loy. The findings could help inform efforts to understand and eradicate the widespread infection.
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#http://www2.philly.com/philly/opinion/english-as-a-second-language-students-schools-20180823.html
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Senior Aminata Sy (left) of Senegal founded the African Community Learning Program to help students learn English while maintaining their cultural heritage. “When we invest in students,” she writes in The Philadelphia Inquirer, “we invest in the future of Philadelphia, America, and the world.”
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Currently, flu vaccines only target the virus most likely to circulate in a given season, limiting their efficacy. The Perelman School of Medicine is working to develop a universal preventive. “This vaccine was able to do something that most other candidate flu vaccines have not been able to do,” says study co-senior author Drew Weissman, a professor of infectious diseases.
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Kymriah, developed at the Perelman School of Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center in partnership with Novartis, has received approval for use in the European Union, demonstrating the global impact of the therapies developed in Philadelphia. The treatment is a personalized cellular therapy that reprograms a cancer patient’s immune system to destroy cancer cells.
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