Thomas Jefferson University News & Features Archive News sections: News sections Close Design & Style Science & Technology Business Health Life at Jefferson Podcasts Return to Home Thomas Jefferson University News 2024 Newly Upgraded Ramily Markets Continue to Help Students in Need School of Business Alumni Embrace the Entrepreneurial Spirit A Rugby Player-Turned-Researcher Tackles the Reality of Concussions 24 Remarkable Jefferson Moments From 2024 Fashion Students Learn Real-World Skills at Holiday Pop-Up Shop Jefferson’s Bicentennial Celebration Culminates with Time Capsule Dedication in December Jefferson Honors Long-Time Employees Jefferson Investigates: Cannabis and ADHD, Improving Recovery for Opioid Use Disorder, Small RNAs in COPD Treating Schizophrenia Through Dance Therapy Thomas Jefferson University Announces Gift to Launch Thackrah Capital Markets Research Lab Exploring the Complexity of Protein Structures with Artwork Alumna Illustrated Whimsical Amazon Kids Gift Book Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next 2023 Jefferson, Lehigh Valley Health Network Sign Non-Binding Letter of Intent to Combine Thomas Jefferson University Names Said Ibrahim, MD, MBA, MPH the Anthony F. and Gertrude M. DePalma Dean of Sidney Kimmel Medical College The Science Behind Forensic Drug Analysis Fashion Pop-up Shop Teaches Students Real-World Skills While Benefiting a Local Charity 23 Memorable Jefferson Moments for 2023 Jefferson Investigates: ChatGPT in Sleep Apnea, Distress in Cancer Care and Hunger for Moms in Opioid Treatment Occupational Therapy Class Adapts Toys for Children With Disabilities Empowering Dreams: Event Celebrates Jefferson’s First-Generation Students Could Eating Turkey Ease Colitis? At JeffSolves MedTech, Students Solve Real-World Problems Nurses and Patients Face Med Student Works the NFL Sidelines, Tending to Injured Players Tom Shirley Announces Retirement From Athletic Director Role Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next 2022 When Inhalers Stop Working Writing Competition Tackles Gun Violence, an ‘Ugly Hydra of a Creature’ 22 Memorable University Moments of 2022 Digital Tools and Shared Decision-Making Fashion Students Hone Real-World Skills at Pop-Up Shop Thomas Jefferson University Celebrates Success of Historic Merger with Philadelphia University Community Trauma and Counseling Program Reaches Communities Through Faith-Based Leaders Podcast: How the University’s Global Push Could Help Bring Malawi Its First Dedicated Teaching Hospital Jefferson College of Nursing Partners with MATER to Give Students Hands-On Training in Substance Use Disorder New FDA-Approved Device for Stroke Rehabilitation Now Available for Patients at Jefferson Health Air Force Veteran Helps Improve Outcomes at Jefferson’s Pro Bono Clinic Adding Sensory Integration to Autism Assessments may yield More Individualized Treatment Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next 2021 What Does the FTC’s Antitrust Case Vs. Facebook Mean for Social-Media Users? Study Away Experience Reinvigorates Medical Student How Can We Harness New Applications of Art Therapy? Jefferson Students Recognized by the Fashion Scholarship Fund Most Memorable Jefferson Moments of 2021 With New Course on Virtual Fashion Design, Jefferson Embraces Industry’s Future Historic Preservation Program Director & Professor Publish Book on Hassrick House Reimagining Immunity in the Eye Giving the Underserved Hope and Care During COVID Does Cancer Immunotherapy Work Differently in Men Vs. Women? Can the Benefits of Cannabis Overcome Political Barriers to its Legalization? Fashion Merchandising Students Honor Grad at Holiday Pop-Up Shop Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Next 2020 Meet Our Student: Sharmaine Belton, A Master of Science Real Estate Development Student Senator Collett Announces Nearly $9 Million in State Grants for her District After Battling COVID-19, Jefferson Nursing Student Vaccinates Frontline Workers Park in a Truck Recognized with Green Building United's 2020 Groundbreaker Award Jefferson Offers Telehealth Training Free to Unemployed Participants Top Jefferson Moments of 2020 Students Volunteer to Help With COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Jefferson’s Health Design Lab Teams Up With UArts to Study ER Burnout A First-in-Human Clinical Trial Shows Microbubbles May Improve Effectiveness of Radiation Therapy in Patients with Liver Cancer How to Keep Strong While Recovering from COVID-19 at Home Our Year in Mental Health Students Honored by Fashion Scholarship Fund Is “Both-Sides” Journalism Truly Unbiased? Predicting Heart Disease from the Skin Fashion Alumni Excel as Entrepreneurs JIB-BCG Digital Demonstrator Brings Industry 4.0 Tech to Biopharma Operations JCPH Receives Internationally Recognized Institutional Leadership in Quality Award Shedding Light on the Experiences Transgender and Non-Binary Patients Face in the Doctor’s Office Philly native is first African-American student accepted into Thomas Jefferson University’s biopharmaceutical engineering master’s program Interior Design BS Program Awarded 6-Year Accreditation Rock-a-bye Fly: Why Vibrations Lead to Sleepiness Close to the Bone: SKCC Investigators Uncover Link between Mitochondrial Metabolism and Chondrosarcoma How Can Researchers Engage with Marginalized Communities to Better Understand Health Disparities? Writing Program Honored with Certificate of Excellence Dr. Isidore Rigoutsos Elected AAAS Fellow for 2020 Thomas Jefferson University Announces Online Low Residency Option to MS Real Estate Development Program When the COVID-19 Pandemic Hit, JIB Stepped Into the Spotlight Ramily Market Expansion Works to Ease Food Insecurity Burden Jefferson Alumna Named Co-Chair of Biden’s COVID-19 Advisory Board Jefferson Health Named Finalist in CMS Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge Jefferson Smart & Healthy Cities Forum Draws Hundreds to Virtual Event Meet Our Faculty: Grace Ong Yan, Assistant Professor, Interior Design, Jefferson College of Architecture and the Built Environment JeffSolves MedTech Inspires Next Generation of Innovators Jefferson Innovator Magazine: Houston, We Have a Solution Jefferson Innovator Magazine: Textile Professionals Answer a Looming Need Jefferson Innovator Magazine: The Global Studio Jefferson Innovator Magazine: The Weave of Possibility Canine ‘Chief Compassion Officer’ Maggie Works to Improve Mental Health Get My Job: Spotlight on Industrial Design A Novel Immunotherapy Proves Effective in Animal Models of Multiple Sclerosis A Novel Immunotherapy Proves Effective in Animal Models of Multiple Sclerosis How to Get Intimacy Back after Cancer Treatment Combo-Drug Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes Remains Effective After Two Years By Designing Childrenswear, Students Flex Their Creativity on a Smaller Canvas Racial Disparities in Treatment for Common Lung Cancer Persist Despite Gains Alumnus Makes His Mark on Capitol Hill Philadelphia Diabetes Prevention Collaborative Seeks to Reverse an Epidemic New Population of Immune Cells Could Play a Key Role in Multiple Sclerosis Dr. Dimitri Papanagnou Wants Med Students to Be Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable How Women Runners Can Avoid Stress Fractures Climate Change Blood With Baggage: Prejudice Underlies Current FDA Regulations for 'MSM' Blood Donors Jobs and the Economy Fashion Alumna Helps Create Newest American Girl Doll My Coming Out Story Jeff Invest Helps Students Become Financially Savvy What Medicaid Expansion Has Meant for Mental Health during COVID-19 Get My Job: Spotlight on Pharmacy Nationwide Children’s Hospital Awarded $100,000 Hearst Health Prize Not All Patients Are Offered the Same Effective Breast Cancer Treatment Jefferson Medical Students Learn From the Best at the National Institutes of Health Park in a Truck Initiative Earns ‘Social Good’ Recognition From Fast Company Magazine Teen Vogue Editor Discusses Diversity, Inclusion and Career Building University Announces Creation of a National Center for Telehealth Education and Research How to Recognize and Support Someone Who Feels Hopeless COVID-19 Creates Problems, Research Supplies Solutions Students Help People Exercise Their Right to Vote Flipping the Gender-Demographic Script Addressing the Complex Care Challenge Adapting to a New Way of Doing Research During the Pandemic A New Approach to Understanding the Biology of Wound Healing Med School Rotation Brings Student Back to Magee After Devastating Spinal Cord Injury University Will Host International Sex and Gender Health Education Summit Transforming Ideas Into Action New Immigration Restrictions Cause Turmoil for the International Community Landscape Architecture Major Wins Prestigious National Award Thomas Jefferson University Awarded $508,000 by the Commonwealth to Support CoraVax™, a Patented COVID-19 Vaccine Delivering Food to Patients to Stop Hunger—and Step Up Medical Care Researchers Battle Misinformation @DearPandemic Black in Neuro – A Week of Community Building in the Neurosciences Small Change Makes Cancer Vaccine More Effective in Animal Tests Back to School How Parents Can Help Young Children Get ‘Back to School’ Setting the Stage to Further Study and Collaborations in Hemp and Medicinal Cannabis A Window Into Student Life During COVID-19 Presidential Election Poll Alumnus Troy Hannigan Named MS in Real Estate Development Program Director Addressing the Body, Mind and Spirit Establishing a Global Classroom With Roots in East Falls Causes of Higher Risk of Stress Fractures in Female Runners Learning from Women with Opioid Use Disorder Surgery During Pregnancy for Gallbladder Infections May be Safer than Postponing Confronting Racism in the Therapy Room Six Faculty Members Win Business Research Awards Cytotechnology Alumna Melds Art, Science, Scuba Grief and Prejudice – How Asian Americans Are Coping During the Pandemic Tips to weather COVID's economic impact Amid Uncertain Times, New Grads and Students Find Career Success Double Surgery Improves Chances for Heart Transplant in Patients with Obesity IUDs Successfully Manage Menstrual Pain in Adolescents with Disabilities How Architecture Design Can Help Those With Autism Engage With the World Learning Empathy as a Caregiver Takes More Than Experience Thomas Jefferson University and University of the Arts Announce Undergraduate Collaboration CABE Dean Barbara Klinkhammer to Receive Top 100 Visionaries in Education Recognition Get My Job: Spotlight on Fashion Supporting Families During COVID-19 Celebrating the Class of 2020 Get My Job: Spotlight on Industrial Design and Occupational Therapy Dealing With Grief in the Age of COVID-19 SKMC Student Works on Dr. Fauci’s Team Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic Jefferson Architecture and Industrial Design Students Help Israel Medical Center Look Toward its Future To Those Who Have Just Begun Their Journey With the White Coat … At-Risk Twin Pregnancies Benefit from an Intervention Called Cerclage Racial Disparities in Surgery Rates for Esophageal Cancer Art in Times of Crisis OT Grad Student Earns Spot on the Eagles Cheer Team One Step of Many A History of Injustice - Coping with Racial Trauma How to Have Difficult Conversations About COVID and Race Relations Meet Maggie: Jefferson’s Newest Furry Employee Fashion Students Earn Top Honors From Gucci, AATCC and Dior State Awards Nearly $140K For Pair of University Industrial Hemp-Related Projects JeffersonSCREEN Project Aims to Reduce Social Isolation for Patients A Great Societal Challenge Returns Accompanied by Lessons (and Questions) From the Past The Pittsburgh Story: Racism in the Media and its Impacts on the Public They’ve Got the Look Get My Job: Spotlight on MRI Technologist We Stand United New Recommendations on Genetic Testing for Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials to Search for COVID-19 Treatments Farai Simoyi Named the New Fashion Design Program Director at Thomas Jefferson University Coronavirus Linked to Stroke in Otherwise Healthy Young People How Is Structural Racism Reinforced Through Food? Making a Difference From Home George Floyd was a Mother’s Son, Our Son Jefferson Students Earn Top Spots in National Lighting Design Competition A Message to all Members of the Jefferson Community Essay: High Productivity Demands Negatively Impact Patient Quality of Care Restoring Nerve-Muscle Communication in ALS Healthcare Eye Injury Sets Immune Cells On Surveillance To Protect The Lens Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology: COVID-19 Will Have Long Lasting Impact on Biopharma Manufacturing Get My Job: Spotlight on Disaster Medicine and Management The First 3D Map of the Heart’s Neurons Music for the Heart Bharat Biotech, Thomas Jefferson University Pursue a Promising Vaccine Candidate Against COVID-19 How Can Antitrust Laws Promote Human Welfare? A Safe Space for Nurses to Share Their Coronavirus Fears Jefferson, Israel Innovation Authority Announce Companies Which Won a Combined $1 Million to Develop, Test & Pilot Innovative Technologies Jefferson Alumni Give Animals a Leg Up COVID-19 Nursing Voices CPR For Mental Health Industrial Design Senior Wins Regional IDSA Student Merit Award Jefferson Researchers Take On the Coronavirus Nursing Students Ready for COVID-19 Front Lines COVID-19 Trials Opening at Accelerated Rate Midwives Become Partners in Empowered Healthcare Loneliness in Times of Isolation JeffSecure Provides Relief to Students During the Pandemic Students in Jefferson’s Health Design Lab Helping Make Important PPE Fix Pictures of Social Isolation Through Fashion, Students Raise Awareness for Heart Disease Architecture Students Awarded Prizes in U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Design Challenge Competition Binge Swatching Poised to Lead in the Face of the Pandemic The Site is the Star Transcend and Include A Conversation with Dr. Chris Pastore in the Center for Faculty Development & Nexus Learning Helping Healthcare Providers, One Laser Cut at a Time How Creating a 'New Army of First Preventers’ Could Help America Emerge From the Initial COVID-19 Wave How Students Can Work on Their Careers During COVID-19 Does a Person’s Feelings About an Experience Matter More Than the Experience Itself? 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Nationwide Study on Medical Students’ Empathy, at a Time When Empathy Is Needed Most The Chemistry of Cold-Brew Coffee Inside the Race to Provide Frontline Healthcare Workers With COVID-19 Testing Kits Another Type of Small RNA Found To Depend on Personal Attributes Get My Job: Spotlight on Fashion Prepared for Change Doing Research in the Time of COVID-19 A New Coronavirus Vaccine Designed to Meet a Global Demand Jefferson Nursing Grads to Support COVID-19 Efforts Compound in Fruit Peels Halts Damage & Spurs Neuronal Repair in Animal Models of Multiple Sclerosis Providing Backup in the COVID-19 Fight Spread the Science, Not the Virus COVID-19 Better Together Fund Supports University Community Students Step Up to Help Jefferson Community in COVID-19 Fight Easing the Pain of an Economic Tsunami JeffMask, JeffVent Missions Seek to Help Fill Potential PPE and Ventilator Gaps A Renaissance Woman U.S. News Names Jefferson Graduate Programs Among Top in Nation The Biology of Coronavirus Preventative Measures Taking Care of Your Mental Well-Being During a Pandemic Job Search Tips During the COVID-19 Pandemic Labmate Online: Technology Platform Moves into Industry Training Curriculum Population Health Researcher Launches COVID-19 Survey Students Celebrate in Untraditional Match Day Magee Selected District Coach of the Year; Guerra, Mallory Named To NABC All-District Team Cancer Patients Over 65, on Multiple Medicines, Are at Higher Risk of Hospitalization Mobile Testing for COVID-19 Now at All Major TJUH Sites 12 Tips to Maximize Time at Home Explaining the Dire Need to ‘Flatten the Curve’ Recommendations for Pregnant Women During COVID-19 Jefferson Undergraduates Achieve 97 Percent Employment, Grad School Success Rate At-Home Exercise Programs With Little or No Equipment Needed CABE Student Wins Prestigious Architecture Fellowship Hidden Gem From Jefferson Design Center in High-Profile NYC Exhibition What Happens When the Doctors get Sick with Coronavirus? Coronavirus Updates for Students, Faculty and Staff Learning Empathy as a Care Giver Takes More Than Experience Training Physicians for the Future, Not the Past When an Emoji Is Worth a Thousand Words Rams Men's (No. 3 seed) and Women's (No. 8 seed) Basketball Teams Headed to NCAA Division II Tournament Confidential Information: Can Banks Resist Profit Incentives? Evaluating Research Productivity Among Academic Urologists Medical Student's Poetry Gives Voice to ALS Patients Reducing Textile Waste Novel use of Robotics for Neuroendovascular Procedures Rams' Kylan Guerra (Player of the Year), Herb Magee (Coach of the Year) Headline CACC Basketball Honors Sustainable Design Faculty and Alums Launch New Book Thomas Jefferson University Announces Global Center in Ireland Antioxidant Precursor Molecule Could Improve Brain Function in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis Coronavirus Concerns Disrupt the Global Fashion Industry Democracy in Action Can We Harness the Medicinal Properties of Plants to Help Treat Diseases Like Osteoarthritis? MicroRNA Exhibit Unexpected Function in Driving Cancer Superheroes Create Superpowers for Those With Autism Life-Saving Drugs on Craigslist Ram Relax Cart Bolsters Mindfulness Defining the Future of Learning and Work Live Life Like a Clock Does Lung Damage Speed Pancreatic Cancer? Jefferson Is Global Making Science Stories Come to Life Jefferson Hits the Runway at New York Fashion Week Meet Jefferson’s JEMS: 3 Junior Faculty to Watch-Out-For It’s in Our DNA Statins May Lower Mortality in High-Risk Prostate Cancer Patients From Microbiology to Microfiber Vibratory and Auditory Stimulation Improves Sleep in Patients with Insomnia Finding Connections at the Surface Living the Dream National Study: Medical Students Become Less Empathic Toward Patients Throughout Medical School BCG and Thomas Jefferson University Announce Digital Demonstrator for Innovation in Biopharma Operations Shift in Treatment Modalities Associated with Improved Outcomes in Uveal Melanoma Patients with Liver Metastasis Italian Designer Brings Passion to Fashion 7 Tips for Landing a Job in 2020 Using Blue LED Light to Make Organic Molecules Jefferson President and CEO Stephen Klasko Named Distinguished Fellow of World Economic Forum Sleep May be the Missing Link in Amyloid-Related Cognitive Decline A Game-Changing Design for Adaptive Athletes Oral Hormone-Blocking Drug May Help with Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Summoning the Troops to Attack Colon Cancer Alum Helps Point Students in a Global Direction with New Scholarship The SKCC Biorepository at Thomas Jefferson University Receives Accreditation from College of American Pathologists The Shoe Fits for Industrial Design Student Interior Design Program Named As One of the Nation’s Top By Architectural Digest The Intersection of Arts, Dementia and Training Tomorrow’s Empathetic Health Care Providers Both Institutions and Students Need Life-Long Learning to Prepare for the Future of Work 2019 Taking Care of Our Own Top Jefferson Moments of 2019 All Research Starts With a Question. What’s Yours? Searching for the Next Great Idea On the Spot A Pop-Up With Purpose Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Next