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  • Mitchell A. Lazar honored with prestigious George M. Kober Medal for pioneering contributions to diabetes and metabolic research

    The Rhoda and Willard Ware Professor in Diabetes and Metabolic Disease, and director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism in the Perelman School of Medicine is the 2025 recipient of the George M. Kober Medal from the Association of American Physicians for his fundamental discoveries uncovering connections between hormone receptors, circadian rhythms, and the regulation of gene expression in normal physiology as well as metabolic diseases including diabetes and obesity.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Kyle Vining earns Hartwell Foundation award to study childhood leukemia

    The assistant professor in preventive and restorative sciences in Penn Dental Medicine and in materials science and engineering in Penn Engineering has received an Individual Biomedical Research Award to explore a novel approach to improving treatment for childhood leukemia

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Penn GSE affordability expert offers takeaways on the new FAFSA

    GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education and Penn’s Vice Provost for Faculty Laura Perna, who specializes in college access, affordability, and success, says students should complete the FAFSA as soon as possible.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →

  • Weitzman students win top three prizes in HOK Futures Design Challenge

    This year’s program challenged university students to design a new environmental education center at Cobb’s Creek Park. Ecoloop by Sharlene Yulita took first place; second place went to The Mystery Shack by Chendou Zhu anb Rain Ruihua Yang; and third place went to Io-Ind by Jonathan Bonezzi and Ryan Lane.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • Cerianne Robertson named 2024-26 George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow

    Robertson has studied media narratives and discourses that sustain power relations, particularly for cites and sports mega-events at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • Three things all new managers should be doing

    New managers typically receive no training for their new role. Wharton’s Peter Cappelli discusses three common struggles and how to avoid them.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Korean Language Program students win at Korean speech contest

    Heejoon Shin, Cat Nguyen, and Kwun Hang Henry Chung from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Korean Language Program participated in the third Mid-Atlantic Korean Speech Contest.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Video educates and connects men to prostate cancer screening options

    Piloted by Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Community Outreach and Engagement team, the effort aims to reach diverse populations and address prostate cancer screening disparities.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Yecheng (Jason) Ma named Apple Scholar in AIML

    Ma, a fourth-year doctoral student in Computer and Information Science has been awarded an Apple Scholars in AIML Ph.D. fellowship for his contributions in computer science and engineering.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • Transportation remains a big barrier to health care

    LDI senior fellow Marina Serper studied how transportation affects Americans with chronic liver disease in the U.S. and the relationship between care-related transportation insecurity and financial security, self-reported health status, work productivity, outpatient and acute health care utilization, and mortality.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →