In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Three of Penn GSE’s closest partnership schools made the School District of Philadelphia’s “Best and Most Promising” list this year, with West Philadelphia’s Penn Alexander named the top-scoring K-8 school in the city.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Fantuzzo, the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations, analyzes public and private data to better understand student experiences in and out of school, and Perna is an expert on college access and affordability, with a special focus on low-income, first-generation, and non-traditional students. She co-founded and is the Executive Director of Penn GSE’s Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
