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  • John Fantuzzo and Laura Perna elected to the National Academy 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 →

  • Data artist and doctoral student Roopa Vasudevan finds creative ways to tell untold stories

    Vasudevan, who spent four years as a producer of MTV’s True Life series, plans to use her time at Annenberg to consider how data collection impacts the way that history is written and viewed, whose stories are being left out in the dominant narrative about technology and access to technology, and how to develop a more ethical approach to collecting data.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • The loss of a baby: How Penn Medicine helps families heal

    According to Penn psychologist Thea Gallagher, giving back (volunteering or donating to a special cause) in the face of any “traumatic” event—such as a pregnancy loss—can help ease the emotional pain. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • PPEH announces 2019 Artist-in-Residence, Roderick Coover

    Visual artist Roderick Coover, the 2019 PPEH Mellon Artist-in-Residence, will conduct collaborative research on the waters of the Delaware Bay and along the shores of the Thames estuary, the North Sea, and English Channel for The Altering Shores, a long-term collaborative transmedia project engaging questions of sea-level rise.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Diversity in the CD4 receptor protects chimpanzees from infection by AIDS-like viruses

    A study led by Beatrice H. Hahn of the origin of HIV-1 in non-human primates could lead to a better AIDS vaccine.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • How This MBA explored blockchain to drive funds to entrepreneurial women of color

    Only 1% of venture capital funds go to women of color each year. As a WISE Fellow, Chanelle Lansley is working to change that statistic for the better.

    FULL STORY AT Wharton →

  • Creating an effective child welfare system

    “Creating an Effective Child Welfare System” is a massive open online course that helps social workers, policymakers, politicians, attorneys, and judges examining and assessing the child welfare system and its policies.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →

  • Leary appointed Penn Nursing’s first Director of Innovation

    In this role, Marion Leary will design and execute innovation programs and projects through Penn Nursing’s Office of Nursing Research.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Payment, lying, and research eligibility

    A study published in Jama Network Open finds that payment for research participation invites deception and lying about eligibility, regardless of the amount of money offered.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Shaping a legendary literacy journal’s future

    Gerald Campano, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, and Amy Stornaiuolo, the new editors of Research in the Teaching of English, a storied journal in the field published by the National Council of Teachers of English, are expanding the voices and vision of the journal outside the traditional margins.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →