In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Wale Adebanwi, Jennifer Morton, and Keisha-Khan Y. Perry have joined the School of Arts & Sciences as Presidential Penn Compact Professors, which was conceived by President Gutmann as a partnership with Penn Arts & Sciences to promote faculty excellence and diversity.
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Four first-year Wharton EMBA students—Camille Castro, Fitz Reid, Angela Romero, and Mini Thangaswamy—received scholarships for their commitment to advancing women in business.
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The grant awarded to the Cardio-Oncology Translational Center of Excellence at Penn Medicine will fund projects aimed at reducing racial disparities in breast and prostate cancer patients with a higher risk for cardiovascular disease.
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The School is launching its first policy center thanks to a $5 million gift made earlier this year by Garry Rayant, a member of the School’s Board of Advisors, and his wife, Kathy Fields, providing the foundational support to establish the Center.
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Jamieson, the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, has been named to the National Academy of Sciences’ new Strategic Council for Research Excellence, Integrity, and Trust. The council will bring together researchers, institutions, and policy makers to identify challenges to the integrity and health of the research enterprise” and work to develop policies and best practices for solving these challenges.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
Penn Libraries highlights four librarians from across the University: Deborah Stewart, head of the Penn Museum Library; Judith Currano, head of the Chemistry Library; Emily Esten, Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica Curator of Digital Humanities; and Lynn Ransom, curator of SIMS Programs and Schoenberg Database Manager.
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Penn’s Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging has announced three new postdoctoral and junior faculty to become the program’s fourth cohort of Scholars pursuing pilot research and receiving training and mentorship in health services research.
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On July 1, the University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press) took over managing the distribution of Wharton School Press’s (WSP) frontlist and backlist titles, expanding the channels through which WSP sells and providing strategic sales and marketing support related to distribution.
FULL STORY AT The Penn Press Log →
To help post-liver transplant patients better understand both the liver’s function and their own liver’s disease process, Emma Furth, Stephanie Veasey, and Samantha Halpern, nurse practitioners in post-liver transplant, created customized PowerPoint presentations for each patient.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
More and more companies are cognizant of the non-public information their executives have access to before it is publicly available, according to a recent paper co-authored by Wharton accounting professor Wayne Guay and Wharton Ph.D. student Shawn Kim. The paper is based on a study that identified patterns in insider transactions at about 4,000 companies between 2012 and 2020.
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