In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn researchers find that an enzyme that reduces the effects of PARP inhibition could be targeted to achieve more potent killing of cancer cells and overcome tumors’ resistance to this class of drugs.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
On May 1, 1965 a special seminar was held at the Penn Museum as part of the University’s observance of Law Day. Titled “Rule of Law,” the program invited 400 guests to engage with the panel that included the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as well as Raymond Pace Alexander, civil rights leader, lawyer, politician, and the first African American judge appointed to the Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
The renowned Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education (CBCSE) has moved from Columbia University to Penn GSE. The Center will be led by assistant professor Brooks Bowden, with founder Henry Levin continuing as founding director and senior fellow. The mission of CBCSE is to advance educational equity by conducting economic evaluations of interventions and policies that addresses educational barriers related to poverty and oppression that prevent students from experiencing the full value of education.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
For parents who have the economic means to hire a tutor, this old school educational arrangement may seem like a pandemic-ready panacea. Who wouldn’t want a freshly minted college grad handling that essay on the Gettysburg Address? What could go wrong? Plenty, says Anne Pomerantz, professor of practice at Penn’s Graduate School of Education.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Virgil Percec, the P. Roy Vagelos Professor of Chemistry, has been elected to the Academia Europaea, which was established in 1988 and is the Pan-European Academy of Sciences Humanities and Letters.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
A new report by Center Steering Committee Member Sophie Maddocks explores how journalists write about trolls and how coverage of trolling could be improved, identifying weaknesses in news coverage of trolls, finding a pattern of narrow and stereotypical reporting among many news outlets. The report offers examples of best-practice coverage that communicates vital information about the conduct of trolls without platforming their views and spreading their messages of hate.
FULL STORY AT Center for Media at Risk →
New research from Penn Medicine finds that making doctors opt out from prescribing cardiac rehabilitation instead of opting in increased referrals by roughly 70%.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
For patients with gynecologic cancers, treatment by a specialist—a gynecologic oncologist—is crucial for improving chances of survival. However, in 2015, as many as 10% of women in the U.S. lived in a county that was more than 50 miles from the closest gynecologic oncologist.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The fear of asking sensitive questions is overblown, according to new research that shows that most people don’t really mind answering sensitive questions, and asking them doesn’t leave a bad impression. The paper, “The (Better Than Expected) Consequences of Asking Sensitive Questions,” is co-written by Maurice Schweitzer, a Wharton professor of operations, information and decisions.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
SP2 has established the first ever SP2 Social Justice Scholars Program, geared towards funding and fostering an eminent education for graduate students, preferably those graduating from historically black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
