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  • How digital platforms like Spotify turn rivals into allies

    Competing with popular releases on Spotify can actually benefit smaller artists, says Wharton’s Manav Raj.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • The Lauder Institute returns to Mongolia for its Lauder Intercultural Ventures Program

    The Lauder Institute recently led a group of students to Mongolia as part of its Lauder Intercultural Ventures program to explore how a landlocked nation, positioned between China and Russia and rich in natural resources, balances economic growth with sustainability.

    FULL STORY AT Lauder Institute →

  • Basser Center for BRCA awards 2024 Basser Global Prize to Patrick Sung of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

    Basser Global Prize recognizes a leading scientist who has advanced BRCA1 and BRCA2-related research. This year’s recipient, Patrick Sung, is director of the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute at UT Health San Antonio, associate dean for research, and professor of biochemistry and structural biology at the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Long-term antiviral use is key to ocular shingles treatment

    Yearlong use of a typical antiviral treatment for shingles is particularly impactful in reducing complications when the condition eventually affected the eye.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • A new way to treat Afib: Pulsed field ablation

    Penn’s cardiac electrophysiology laboratory has been a leader in pulsed field ablation for its precision and safety. Unlike radiofrequency or cryoablation, which use heat or extreme cold to destroy problematic heart tissue, PFA uses short electrical pulses to selectively target the heart’s myocardium, the muscle layer responsible for erratic electrical signals.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Sheri Yang and Michael Mitchell awarded $2.79M to advance study, treatment of rheumatoid arthritis

    Yang, a professor in the Department of Basic and Translational Sciences, and Mitchell, associate professor of bioengineering at Penn Engineering, have been awarded a $2.79M grant over five years from the National Institutes of Health to study a possible new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Empowering change through public service

    Eight 2024 Penn Carey Law graduates have received prestigious national public interest fellowships.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • New director of the Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing

    Margo Brooks Carthon, the Tyson Family Endowed Term Chair for Gerontological Research, professor of nursing in the Department of Family and Community Health, and associate director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, has been appointed the new director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Danaë Metaxa to represent Penn in the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium

    The Consortium unites AI creators and users, academics, government and industry researchers, and civil society organizations in support of the development and deployment of safe and trustworthy artificial intelligence. It brings together more than 280 organizations to develop science-based and empirically backed guidelines and standards for AI measurement and policy.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • Rahul Mangharam receives NSF award for Trustworthy AI in Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems

    Rahul Mangharam, professor in electrical and systems engineering and in computer and information science and a founding member of the PRECISE Center, joins a collaborative team investigating “Trustworthy AI for Transportation Cyber Physical Systems” with a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation and its MSI Expansion Program to address both the safety and trustworthiness of the AI that powers autonomous vehicles and transportation systems.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →