In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health’s TeleRetina program provides a clearer picture of patients’ risk for retinopathy, which can lead to blindness if left untreated.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Wharton School announced today a $10 million gift from 1986 undergraduate alumnus Josh Harris and his wife Marjorie Harris to establish the Joshua J. Harris Alternative Investments Program to expand co-curricular opportunities for Wharton students in the field and bring together alumni and industry experts through events and programming.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
Penn researchers found that patients are often willing to share their Google search histories with medical researchers and allow them to be analyzed alongside their medical records.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Chester County Hospital serves as a satellite chapter of Mended Hearts, a national and community-based organization that provides patients undergoing bypass surgery, valve replacement, and other cardiothoracic surgeries with a resource after surgery.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The 2019 Wharton Women Business Conference brought female students together to discuss how to achieve their goals in an ever-changing professional landscape.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
A Penn Medicine and CHOP study finds that the fetal signaling pathways active in a developing fetus may offer future opportunities to treat lung damage caused by prematurity and other lung injuries.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Federal Reserve is more than the U.S. central bank; it is also a kind of financial State Department, playing a key role in the nation’s foreign affairs. This is not new: the Fed has functioned as a kind of diplomatic corps since its founding in 1913.
FULL STORY AT Wharton Public Policy Initiative →
Washington, D.C.,-based book collector Joanna Banks gifted her collection of works by and about African Americans to the Penn Libraries, a major trove of over 10,000 books, periodicals, recordings, and photographs.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
Last year, Penn GSE held a design sprint challenge to use design thinking to reimagine how the first floor of the Penn GSE building could be used. On Feb. 13, artwork created by students at Strawberry Mansion High School, Chester A. Arthur School, and the Juvenile Justice Center was formally unveiled on the first floor.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Jonathan Woodson, the former top medical official in the U.S. Department of Defense, was the keynote speaker at the 2019 Martin Luther King, Jr., Health Equity Symposium. He said research found almost no disparities in access, treatment or outcomes between white and non-white patients— a stark difference from the high levels of disparities in the civilian health care system.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
