In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Chester County Hospital serves as a satellite chapter of Mended Hearts, a national and community-based organization that provides patients undergoing bypass surgery, valve replacement, and other cardiothoracic surgeries with a resource after surgery.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
School of Social Policy & Practice faculty members Richard J. Gelles, Steven C. Marcus, Phyllis Solomon, Ram A. Cnaan, Susan B. Sorenson, and Dennis P. Culhane have recently been recognized as one of the top 100 most influential contemporary social work faculty in a recent Journal of Social Service Research article.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
Washington, D.C.,-based book collector Joanna Banks gifted her collection of works by and about African Americans to the Penn Libraries, a major trove of over 10,000 books, periodicals, recordings, and photographs.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
A Penn Medicine and CHOP study finds that the fetal signaling pathways active in a developing fetus may offer future opportunities to treat lung damage caused by prematurity and other lung injuries.
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The Federal Reserve is more than the U.S. central bank; it is also a kind of financial State Department, playing a key role in the nation’s foreign affairs. This is not new: The Fed has functioned as a kind of diplomatic corps since its founding in 1913.
FULL STORY AT Wharton Public Policy Initiative →
Last year, Penn GSE held a design sprint challenge to use design thinking to reimagine how the first floor of the Penn GSE building could be used. On Feb. 13, artwork created by students at Strawberry Mansion High School, Chester A. Arthur School, and the Juvenile Justice Center was formally unveiled on the first floor.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
PennLaw School has partnered with Temple’s Beasley School of Law and the Kline School of Law at Drexel University to offer a unique new course on the future of criminal justice reform, co-taught by key leaders in Philadelphia: District Attorney Larry Krasner and Chief Defender Keir Bradford-Grey of the Defender Association of Philadelphia.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
Jonathan Woodson, the former top medical official in the U.S. Department of Defense, was the keynote speaker at the 2019 Martin Luther King, Jr., Health Equity Symposium. He said research found almost no disparities in access, treatment or outcomes between white and non-white patients— a stark difference from the high levels of disparities in the civilian health care system.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Wharton's David Reibstein discusses the U.S. News and World Report's 2019 Best Countries rankings.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Studies show that the number medical students studying overseas has increased significantly over the decades, from 6.4 percent in the mid-1980s to over 27 percent in 2017, according to a study in BMC Medical Education and an Association of American Medical Colleges survey.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
