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  • Beacon Awards

    The Lipman Family Prize is excited to announce the 2020 Beacon Awards, which will be presented in October 2020, during the Wharton Global Forum. The Beacon Awards are designed to reward and support Lipman Family Prize honorees who have demonstrated success in growing their social impact efforts. Eligible honorees will be invited in October 2019 to submit an Expression of Interest, and qualified candidates will be asked to provide their Growth Narrative by February 2020. 

    FULL STORY AT Wharton →

  • High-risk patients benefit from undergoing surgery at teaching hospitals

    A new study compares costs and outcomes of surgical procedures at teaching and non-teaching hospitals to determine value.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Take a first-person tour of the Detkin Lab via flying robot

    Flying with a first-person view, thanks to a VR headset, you can join roboticist, pilot and recent alum Yash Mulgaonkar on a quick spin around the lab.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →

  • Celebrating 50 years of training the physicians of the future

    Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital’s Family Medicine Residency Program began in 1969—the same year that family medicine was officially recognized as a distinct specialty in the United States. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, LGH’s pioneering residency program remains one of the most consistently top-ranked among more than 500 programs focused on family medicine across the country. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • What’s the catch? Collateral mortality of spotted lanternfly trapping

    Though introduced to Berks County, PA, in 2014, spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula, SLF) have been slow to invade Morris Arboretum. While more SLF were on the trees this year than any previous year, the populations were still small compared to those seen on favored trees (such as tree-of-heaven) in the heavily infested areas of Pennsylvania. 

    FULL STORY AT Morris Arboretum →

  • NIH award to support integrated pathogen and vector genomics information resources

    A team led by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Georgia provides thousands of researchers around the world with access to the Eukaryotic Pathogen Genomics Database, a collection of resources for analyzing large-scale datasets associated with microbial pathogens.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Schneck selected as NFHCA senior game participant

    The 2019 Victory Sports Tours/National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division I Senior Game roster was announced on Wednesday and Alexa Schneck was selected to represent the University of Pennsylvania among 38 other student-athletes in Winston Salem, N.C. on Friday, Nov. 22.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →

  • #WomenofPenn: Overcoming setbacks, challenges of opening a lab

    Reflecting on her early career, M. Celeste Simon, a professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and the scientific director of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, notes the excitement and challenges associated with opening a lab. It’s a feeling that Sydney M. Shaffer also experienced in January, when she opened her lab at Penn, developing and using cutting-edge imaging and sequencing technologies to investigate single-cell problems in cancer.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • A new name—and a new era—for the Wharton School’s book publishing arm

    The book publishing arm of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is changing its name from Wharton Digital Press to Wharton School Press.

    FULL STORY AT Wharton →

  • Early Career Award win for Stevens

    Penn Nursing’s Robin Stevens, assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Health, is set to receive the Early Career Award from the Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section of the American Public Health Association.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →