In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy Anita L. Allen accepted the degree and spoke about “unimagined and unimaginable futures,” connecting her childhood in racially segregated Atlanta, Georgia as the daughter of two teenagers without high school diplomas with the advent of the digital age.
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After witnessing the exceptional nursing care his wife received as she battled and ultimately lost her life to ovarian cancer, Fred Flynn created the Susan D. Flynn Oncology Nursing Fellowship in her memory, determined to not only raise the visibility of oncology nursing as a potential career path but also inspire many of the “best and brightest” undergraduate nursing students to enter the field.
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In the new year, Princeton Health Community Wellness instructors will begin offering mental health first aid educational programs for professional such as school teachers and counselors, and individuals by request.
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Puchtler, the chief financial officer of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, has been named to the 2020 class of the Carol Emmott Fellowship. The fellowship was established to address the significant underrepresentation of women in the top ranks of hospital and health system leadership.
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Penn’s Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy Center’s data model that maps key early childhood risk exposure across the neighborhoods is pioneering a revolution in data use.
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During a series of talks at Penn sponsored by Penn GSE’s Education Policy and Higher Education Divisions and the Wharton Public Policy Initiative, Scott Pattison, the former executive director of the National Governor’s Association, said higher education and K-12 leaders should start preparing for the next economic downturn now.
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Penn Dental Medicine’s Morton Amsterdam Dean, Dr. Mark Wolff, has been inducted as a Fellow of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, alongside 23 other prominent leaders in medicine, academia, and public health advocacy.
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Maya Lassiter, doctoral GEM Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at Penn Engineering, is applying an instrumentation and systems perspective to understand how nanoscale robots can be fabricated, controlled and used to further biological research.
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Penn Law Professor Cary Coglianese has been named one of the 50 lawyers, judges, and law professors recently elected to the American Law Institute (ALI). Coglianese is the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor at the Law School and Professor of Political Science in the School of Arts and Sciences.
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Maureen Rush, Vice President for Public Safety & Superintendent of Penn Police announced the award, who highlighted the partnership between Penn and the Philadelphia Fire Department as a special accomplishment.
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