With so much charitable giving directed toward the Sept. 11 tragedies, your donation to Penn’s Way and the charities it supports is needed more than ever. Just $4 buys a one-day canoe field trip for a school child. And $50 provides a set of literacy brochures to help 50 people learn how to read.
Your donation qualifies you to enter a drawing for some terrific raffle prizes as well as for the grand-prize drawing for an iBook laptop computer.
And in our book, your donation also qualifies you as an angel.
Lea gets books
The Lea Elementary School saw much activity and ceremony Nov. 11 with the opening of its newly refurbished library. With funding from the University of Pennsylvania, Central City Toyota and Toyota Motor Credit Corp. and book donations from the Eagles Youth Partnership, the school will build, as the Eagles Youth Partnership puts it, “ a community of literacy.” At the opening, guests, who included Philadelphia Eagles starting fullback Cecil Martin, read books that children from grades one and two picked out from a bookmobile.
Old money
A $500,000 donation establishing the Virginia Brown Fellowship for Aging and Stroke Research in the Department of Geriatric Medicine has been donated by Brown’s estate. The fellowship, meant to benefit the growing elderly population, will fund research on the aging process, dementia and the relationship between care and outcomes across age and ethnicity. Brown’s husband, Richard P. Brown, formerly chaired the board of Penn’s Health System and currently serves as a University Trustee and member of the Advisory Board of Penn’s Institute on Aging.
OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Google vary widely in identifying hate speech
Neil Fasching and Yphtach Lelkes of the Annenberg School for Communication have found dramatic differences in how large language models classify hate speech, with especially large variations for language about certain demographic groups, raising concerns about bias and disproportionate harm.
Understanding order to disorder at the atomic scale opens possibilities for next-generation electronic devices
A Penn team has developed insight into the chemical and geometric mechanisms underlying the synthesis of new 2D materials, paving the way for next-gen devices, biomedical applications, and cleaner, quicker energy conversion and storage.
(From left) Kevin B. Mahoney, chief executive officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System; Penn President J. Larry Jameson; Jonathan A. Epstein, dean of the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM); and E. Michael Ostap, senior vice dean and chief scientific officer at PSOM, at the ribbon cutting at 3600 Civic Center Boulevard.
Reimagined Penn Medicine facility set to usher in a bold new era of Immune Health discovery
3600 Civic Center Boulevard will bring together key researchers and technologies in Immune Health, the Colton Center for Autoimmunity, and infectious diseases to drive breakthrough science.
