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Penn takes on Philadelphia’s opioid epidemic
Penn takes on Philadelphia’s opioid epidemic
The University is leveraging its expertise to fight the city’s opioid crisis on multiple fronts.
Celebrating Penn’s innovators
A professor, researcher, and inventor, Daniel Powell, an international expert in cancer immunobiology and translational immunotherapy, is one of Penn’s most engaged new innovators.
Teach-in to build bridges, promote dialogue about difficult subjects
From March 18-22, the Faculty Senate will lead the PennTeach-In, which will address the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge. Events, including panels and talks, exhibitions, and film screenings, will be free and open to the public, with many family friendly programs.
Student org talks life, mental health, and the pursuit of happiness
Penn senior Jared Fenton on sharing the model for Penn Reflect, the student mental health organization he started on campus, with schools across the country.
Cultured meat: the utopian, the dystopian, and the weird
Cultured meat is strange and provocative, but also exciting and interesting. It’s inevitable to wonder what kind of potential impact the phenomenon—where a form of animal protein is produced from cell culture in a lab—could have on our world.
Talking immigration, at home and abroad
Talking immigration, at home and abroad
This year’s David and Lyn Silfen University Forum focused on “People and Policy Adrift: A 21st Century Framework for Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Immigration Policy.”
Configuring a ‘road map’ for neuroscience and business
Nita Farahany traveled to Penn last Friday to talk law and ethics as they pertain to neuroscience and business. The Duke University professor of law and philosophy was joined by her colleague John Pearson, a research professor at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.
Penn’s new home in Washington
Penn’s new home in Washington
The Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement—a place for debate and discussion—opened on Feb. 8 in Washington, D.C.
How one Penn center is addressing Philadelphia’s opioid epidemic
Pure and cheap, Philadelphia is known to have the best heroin on the East Coast, said Prevention Point Executive Director Jose Benitez, as he addressed a crowd at Penn’s Houston Hall last week. “It’s a really good high, as our guys call it.”