In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
“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 →
