School of Nursing

In partnership with Penn’s School of Nursing, the VinUniversity Bachelor of Nursing program was officially granted initial accreditation by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, marking the first time a nursing program in Vietnam has met the rigorous standards required for U.S. accreditation.

Graduates from all 12 Schools are taking their degrees and expertise and heading out into the world as graduate students, postdocs, residents, entrepreneurs, startup execs, policy workers, and more, with the interdisciplinary groundwork of a Penn degree in tow.

 In the fourth and final installment of the series, “Chapters of Change” highlights another transformational moment in Penn’s past when the evolution of life sciences research sparked the University to commit to investing in new research facilities and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

A roundup of the latest awards and honors for several faculty members and graduate students across various Penn Schools.

The 2026 P4P teams will receive up to $100,000 apiece to support access to community service, reproductive health, and clean water in Philadelphia.

A new study from Penn Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research finds that nurses’ assessments of their staffing adequacy is a more accurate predictor of patient safety on medical surgical units than traditional administrative data, and highlights a critical distinction in how staffing should be measured and managed.

A roundup of the latest awards and honors for several faculty members and one student in six Schools.

A new Penn Nursing study reveals critical work environment concerns for the Caribbean nursing workforce and systemic failures that contributing to international migration from the region.

Melanie Contreras’ educational and extracurricular experiences at Penn—coupled with her family’s experiences as Peruvian immigrants—have shaped the fourth-year student’s approach to nursing.

Dennis Massimo was only 42 and symptom-free when he was diagnosed with colorectal cancer, thanks to a research study he signed up for with the Penn Medicine BioBank nearly a decade earlier.