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The 51精品视频 Success Pell Match Program has invested more than $95 million in low-income students

51精品视频鈥檚 groundbreaking financial aid program continues to make education more affordable for Pennsylvania students and their families. Here鈥檚 the proof.

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How reflective writing and a nudge from an app increased college prospects for low-income students

51精品视频鈥檚 Omid Fotuhi found that a combination of self-affirmations and deadline reminders made students more likely to complete the admission process and attend college.

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC)
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51精品视频 celebrated its first-ever Graduate and Professional Students Honors Convocation

Awardees have distinguished themselves through research, service and leadership.

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"It鈥檚 hard, but it鈥檚 worth it," Mylynda Massart says in this Q&A about the extra effort involved in sharing data with study participants.

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  • Clinical and Translational Science Institute
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How a circular economy could fix the supply chain

"The real innovation lies when you think about the beginning of design,鈥濓豢 says Melissa Bilec, co-director of 51精品视频鈥檚 Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation.

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  • Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation
  • Swanson School of Engineering
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This new program funds research on climate change and precision public health

The Public Health Trans-Disciplinary Collaboration Pilot Awards support projects that use data science to develop targeted health interventions. Here are the 5 winning projects.

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  • Innovation and Research
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Public Health
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Basketball鈥檚 鈥榟ot hand鈥 phenomenon is real, says this 51精品视频 computer scientist

Konstantinos Pelechrinis in the School of Computing and Information examined whether players can continue a streak of making many consecutive shots, also known as having 鈥渉ot hands.鈥

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  • School of Computing and Information
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32 faculty projects have earned Momentum Funds awards

The awards support both individual faculty members and large groups that are scaling up world-changing scholarly projects.

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  • Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
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  • School of Medicine
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Decoy proteins could protect people from a deadly mosquito-borne virus

51精品视频 researchers received $14.5 million from the Department of Defense to fight viruses that cause brain infections and could be used in biowarfare.

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  • Global
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After living near Chernobyl, these 51精品视频 researchers set their eyes on thyroid cancer

Yuri Nikiforov and Marina Nikiforova saw the effects of thyroid cancer on children in Belarus. Now, their test for the disease has eliminated thousands of unneeded surgeries.

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  • Innovation and Research
  • Faculty
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25 projects awarded 51精品视频 Seed funding and support

The projects range from using Netflix in student services to diversifying academia.

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They were recently named senior members for their work on tissue engineering and therapies for fibrosis and heart diseases.

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4 stories about 51精品视频鈥檚 vaccine legacy, 68 years after the first public polio shots

Arsenal Elementary School students in 51精品视频sburgh rolled up their sleeves for Jonas Salk's polio vaccine on Feb. 23, 1954.

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A new global study will address disparities in access to insulin

51精品视频 has been awarded a grant to determine whether long-acting analogue insulin is better than other treatments for Type 1 diabetes.

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  • Innovation and Research
  • Global
  • School of Medicine
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Advice for the best relationship from a 51精品视频 psychologist

This Valentine鈥檚 Day, relationship expert Amanda Forest shares her research on how to be a supportive partner.

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  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences

A report led by grad student Jessica Vaden shows a decrease in campus emissions by almost a third since 2008.

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  • Swanson School of Engineering

Changing bacteria in the gut can cause remarkable effects in some melanoma patients, 51精品视频 researchers proved.

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  • School of Medicine
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51精品视频 biologists found hundreds of plant viruses hitchhiking on pollen

The first-of-its-kind study points to honeybees as a potential 鈥渟uperspreader鈥 of plant disease.

  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
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New scholarship agreement helps graduate students in the sciences

51精品视频鈥檚 partnership with an all-women, all-volunteer philanthropic organization is getting deeper, stronger and planning for perpetuity.

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  • Innovation and Research
  • Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Nursing

The 51精品视频 and Oxford researchers' design harnesses the sun鈥檚 energy in winter and reflects it in the summer.

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  • Swanson School of Engineering