In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is hosting the Subterranean (SubT) Challenge for teams to create a robotics system that can successfully navigate underground tunnels, urban transportation systems and natural caves, and will be evaluated between August 2019 and August 2021.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
Issues like age or existing arthritis may preclude patients from participating in clinical studies for new therapies that could benefit them.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Wharton's Sherryl Kuhlman discusses how empowering women can reduce risks and enhance overall outcomes for impact investors.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Hospitals designated as nonprofits received tax benefits valued at more than $24 billion annually in 2011. Nonprofit hospitals justify their tax-exempt status by providing “community benefits” in the form of free and subsidized care, investments in public health, and community-based initiatives. Whether nonprofit hospitals truly benefit their communities has been dogged by controversy and calls for reform. Two recent papers by LDI senior fellows provide new data to inform the debate.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Since it was launched at Penn GSE, the School Study Councils, four distinct regional groups of education leaders, have served as a place where education leaders can gather to exchange wisdom and solve problems.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Despite overwhelming climatological data, there are still vocal skeptics of the realities of climate change, but climate change deniers sow doubt about a global trend that most of us agree there should be no doubt about.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
A Fall 2015 Penn Medicine magazine story, “The Path to Penn Medicine,” followed students from distinct origins throughout their inaugural year. What follows is the story of the next four years of that journey, related by the students themselves as it unfolds.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Wharton’s Benjamin Keys looks at why the systems to protect taxpayers from the kind of mortgage market losses suffered in the financial crisis are still not strong enough.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Just over a year into her role as senior vice dean for medical education at the Perelman School of Medicine, Suzanne Rose shares her perspective on what the future holds.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The newly relocated Pennsylvania Hospital Crisis Response Center—one of five in Philadelphia County—provides 24/7 emergency psychiatric services to individuals who are experiencing crises, such as severe depression or anxiety, episodes of psychosis or self-harm, substance use, or suicidal ideation.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
