May 21 , 2009
Did You Know... that the Penn Women's Lacrosse team is headed to the NCAA Final Four for the third straight year? Penn defeated Duke 10-9 in overtime last Saturday to advance to the national semifinal game this Friday where they will face Northwestern. Read the recap of the Penn-Duke game and preview the match against Northwestern (with links to watch the game via the web).
May 11 , 2009
Did You Know... that the Wall Street Journal turned the tables on the presidents of 10 top colleges and universities with an unusual assignment: answer an essay question from their own school's application? For Penn President Amy Gutmann, that meant submitting page 217 of her 300 page autobiography, where she discusses her professional accomplishments, including creating a vision for the school, dubbed "the Penn Compact," when she became the University's president in 2004.
Read Amy Gutmann's essay and more here.
May 4 , 2009
Did You Know... that genetic researchers from Penn's School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have made an important step forward in understanding the complex genetic structure of autism spectrum disorders?
The researchers detected variations along a genetic pathway that is responsible for neurological development, learning and memory, which appears to play a significant role in the genetic risk of autism, a disorder that impacts 1 in 150 children in the United States. The study findings, which were published in the journal Nature on April 28th, suggest that a particular genetic variation is commonly found in children with autism, according to co-senior author Gerard Schellenberg, PhD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Penn's School of Medicine.
"This work yields important clues on what goes awry during development in children with autism and will help us focus on what is the cause of autism at a molecular level," Schellenberg said.
Learn more about this research study. | 
