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  • Five from field hockey earn All-Ivy laurels

     Alexa Schneck, Paige Meily, Sofia Palacios, Erin Kelly, and Ava Rosati were all chosen as some of the top field hockey players in the conference.  

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →

  • Can India become the next $10 trillion economy?

    Marshall M. Bouton from the Center for the Advanced Study of India discusses what lies ahead for U.S.-India relations.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Penn and CHOP team receives $1.84 million grant to study best practices for curbing cell phone use while driving

    Kit Delgado of the Perelman School of Medicine and a team from Penn and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have received a major grant from the Federal Highway Administration to help curb distracted driving. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Planning’s Jennifer Whittaker receives Robert Wood Johnson fellowship

    Jennifer Whittaker, a PhD student in the Department of City and Regional Planning, has been selected to participate in one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s leadership development programs.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Design →

  • Soslow named Ivy League Special Teams Player Of The Week

    Senior placekicker Jack Soslow was named Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week for his efforts in Penn's 20-7 win at Cornell on Friday night.  

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →

  • Patient safety in hospitals still a concern

    Researchers from the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at Penn Nursing investigate whether hospitals have implemented a key National Academy of Medicine recommendation—to improve nurse work environments and assure adequate nurse staffing—and whether these changes corresponded to improved patient safety, as reported by patients and nurses.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Penn engineers develop ultrathin, ultralight ‘nanocardboard’

    Ateam of Penn Engineers has demonstrated a new material they call “nanocardboard,” an ultrathin equivalent of corrugated paper cardboard. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →

  • How Congress can reclaim its power

    Wharton's Brian Feinstein discusses his research on the strength of Congress's oversight powers.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Think globally, act locally

    A group of students in the Perelman School of Medicine joined with other medical schools in Philadelphia to start a group dedicated to the growing field of global surgery, the Penn Global Surgery Group.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Easing postpartum conversations: Students work to improve the experience for diverse families

    KC Benchimol and Monika Wasik walk us through the policy change they spearheaded across postpartum units at the University of Pennsylvania Health System—a simple change that makes it easier for all people to participate in the postpartum experience and symbolizes acceptance of LGBTQ+ parents.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →