Study finds children’s health broadly declining in the U.S.
Using data from 2007 to 2023, researchers from Penn Medicine and CHOP found measures like mental health and obesity, as well as infant and child mortality rose. They urge policy interventions and improved societal infrastructure to prioritize health of the country’s youngest generation.
Hagstrom has a history of leading winning teams at other high-academic institutions, says Alanna Wren, the T. Gibbs Kane, Jr. W’69 Director of Athletics and Recreation.
Penn Athletics receives $20 million gift to support wrestling
A lead gift from former University Trustee, alumnus Dave Pottruck, launches a new campaign and will kick off renovations inside Weightman Hall for a new wrestling facility.
Penn Graduate School of Education professors and programs are engaged in more than 150 international partnerships and projects in over 60 countries around the globe to enact positive change through education.
A hands-on education of Pennsylvania and New Jersey ecology
Sally Willig has been teaching Regional Field Ecology at Penn since 1999, educating students about plants, soils, and more at sites such as Ringing Rocks County Park and the Pine Barrens.
Research from Professor Michael Mann and Ph.D. students Annabelle Horton and Mackenzie Weaver shows that as the worst of these East Coast winter storms intensify, so does their destructive potential—a facet that current coastal risk assessments often ignore.
Volunteers can help with distributing newly acquired metal types and organizing the wood type collection. No minimum or maximum volunteer time is required. Open to the public. Register to attend.
Common Press screens bags at the 2019 Sachs Grant Awards event on May 2. (Photo: Dominic Mercier)
Sisters in Cinema fellows Moya Bailey and India Martin will share their latest documentary film projects during BlackStar Film Festival Weekend. Attendees will get to view "You Just Watch and See" and part of "Out of Focus" and listen to the directors and crew discuss the making of these projects. Lunch will be provided.
Penn’s guiding principles are the University’s enduring values and distinctive strengths: anchored, inventive, interwoven, and engaged. The practices support and strengthen Penn’s core educational mission.
At Penn Today, we focus on some of the ways the University is putting this framework into action. From student, faculty, and staff profiles to research updates and event coverage, Penn Today highlights the latest examples of the University’s principled approach to excellence.
Keeping it local: Penn’s partnerships with Philadelphia-based vendors boost local economy, neighborhood impact
According to the University’s latest Economic Impact Report, Penn helps power Philadelphia’s economy by procuring goods and services from neighboring businesses. Local CEOs discuss the meaningful impact that Penn has on their bottom line and in the community.
Using behavioral economics-based interventions, a 2025 President’s Engagement Prize-winning project will address health and nutrition inequities in a West Philadelphia elementary school.
Penn lends support to Rebuilding Together Philadelphia effort repairing 11 local homes in two days
Marking a milestone block build, 70 Penn volunteers combined forces with Rebuilding Together Philadelphia, a nonprofit with roots at the University, to revitalize owner-occupied houses in the West Philadelphia community. The momentous two-day event involved a block build and speaking program—with a local homeowner sharing a heartfelt message.
Supporting a community for learning, research, and thriving
Four months after the launch of the Office of Religious and Ethnic Interests (Title VI), the office is combating discrimination in all forms while leading educational efforts about dialogue and adaptive leadership.
Long periods of social isolation can physically shrink the brain
A study by Mathias Basner and David R. Roalf of the Perelman School of Medicine finds that the brain can shrink due to social isolation after a year spent cut off from the wider world.
Postdoc Sarah Tomke of the School of Veterinary Medicine says that black squirrels are the result of a genetic mutation rather than a different species.
Health insurers are denying more drug claims, data shows
A study led by Michael Anne Kyle of the Perelman School of Medicine and Leonard Davis Institute found that cancer patients with prior authorization requirements were more likely to have a sudden interruption in access to their oral chemotherapy medication. Penn Medicine’s Aaron Schwartz, also of LDI, says that claim denials are opaque, with many decisions made by private actors.
