In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
A new tunnel connecting the Pavilion to HUP will run between the new facility’s emergency department and the Silverstein basement at HUP, providing a quick way to deliver surgical supplies, medications, and will keep transported patients apart from the general public.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Annie Addison’s connection to Penn began at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1966, when she volunteered as a candy striper for two summers while still in high school, then moved on to a job at PAH in 1968. She has no immediate plans to retire.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Over the last year, the faculty at Penn Law have continued to push the legal community forward by producing groundbreaking, nuanced, and important work.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
In a State of the Union-like address about health services research (HSR) in the United States, a report issued by an elite team of experts assembled by the National Academy of Medicine focuses on the scientific discipline's lack of strategic funding and national coordination.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
A new collection at the Fisher Fine Arts Library provides a vivid and varied reminder of the “materiality of art” in our digital age.
FULL STORY AT The Pennsylvania Gazette →
At the fifth annual Citizenship Challenge, an initiative of the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Education, fourth- and fifth-grade Philadelphia-area students reflected on free speech at the National Constitution Center.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
This past fall, assistant professor of City and Regional Planning Allison Lassiter led a class called Sensing the City, in which fifteen students from the City Planning, Masters of Urban Spatial Analytics, and Integrated Product Design programs used Arduino to develop concepts for collecting data from and interacting with the urban environment.
FULL STORY AT Penn Design →
Gabriel Gonzalez, a junior marketing major in the Wharton school and Nicole Posadas, a junior earth science major, have been selected to receive the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study or intern abroad during the spring of 2019.
FULL STORY AT Penn Abroad →
Throughout the year, Penn Law students took on public interest projects on major issues in local and national government, and won cases, competitions, and fellowships.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
Penn Dental Medicine opened its doors to Veterans on December 12 for a day of free oral screenings and assistance that was booked to capacity, with 54 Veterans from the region participating.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
