In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
An important biological mechanism that is thought to protect brain cells from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s may also be involved in regulating sleep.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) and Penn Law’s Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) have formed an alliance to promote and strengthen the rule of law in democratic institutions.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
At Penn Law, under the leadership of Associate Dean Rangita de Silva de Alwis, students have taken up the mantle of identifying the barriers, boundaries, and biases that women face in the legal and business worlds for a new study.
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Penn Nursing’s Peggy Compton, the van Ameringen Chair in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing and an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Health, will be honored by Sigma Theta Tau International for her contributions to the nursing profession during the 31st International Nursing Research Congress in Abu Dhabi in July.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
After nearly a year of critical conversations and collaboration, the SP2 Task Force on Race and Social Justice has released a detailed report outlining a set of incisive recommendations aimed at advancing intersectionality, identity, and inclusion among all of the School’s constituent groups.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
Richard Bartholomew recounts his time as a caregiver in a conversation with Penn Memory Center co-director Jason Karlawish, MD, during the second of two lectures designed to outline the history and present of Alzheimer’s Disease care to the recently opened Roybal Center on Palliative Care in Dementia.
FULL STORY AT Penn Memory Center →
Professor Tobias Barrington Wolff, Attorney Amy Maldonado, and Adam Garnick played a crucial role in the Third Circuit’s recent decision that federal district courts have subject matter jurisdiction in immigration cases involving “Migrant Protection Protocols,” which send immigrant detainees t
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New research from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center shows brain imaging may be able to predict when a blood test known as a liquid biopsy would or would not produce clinically actionable information.
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Sharmell Branch, a social worker at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, worked tirelessly to secure a two-month humanitarian aid visa for a mother in Guatemala to be with her dying son.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The deadly brain cancer glioblastoma is often resistant to chemotherapy and radiation, but new research from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center shows targeting stromal cells—the cells that serve as the connective tissue of the organs—may be an effective way of overcoming that resistance.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
