In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Anew scholarship named for Penn Medicine professor and LDI Senior Fellow David Asch awarded Solymar Torres Maldonado and Katharine (Kara) Freeman as the inaugural recipients of the David A. Asch Medical Student Scholars in Health Services Research scholarship.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has appointed Penn Nursing’s Nancy Hodgson, the Anthony Buividas Endowed Term Chair in Gerontology, to his 35-member Long-Term Care Council.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
For Garret FitzGerald, director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at Penn, multiple sabbaticals at various health tech companies and other learning institutions exposed him to the different medical disciplines, from molecular biology to the power and language of bioinformatics, and on understanding the biology of senescence.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Arecent paper examines the country's transportation infrastructure suffers from lack of investment and overexposure to risk. Much infrastructure is also underinsured, which leads to an over-reliance on government disaster funding.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
The Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics surpassed its fundraising goal of $18.7 million, with contributions from alumni, family members, and fans, in an effort to positively impact the Penn student-athlete experience.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
In a study published online in Genes and Development Mitchell Lazar and his team found that reducing macrophage activity, the immune system's inflammatory response to tissue damage, can inhibit obesity and diabetes, diseases associated with prolonged inflammation.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Recent graduate Regina Salmons, who rowed for four years on the women's rowing team, won gold in the women's pairs at the World Rowing Under 23 Championships. Salmons now has three U-23 gold medals during her career.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
A study finds that encouraging doctors to prescribe preventative cholesterol-lowering medication helps prevent long-term strokes and heart attacks, and electronic “nudges” embedded in patient's health dashboards can work to increase preventative prescription rates.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
On July 27, Penn Law welcomed 116 students from 29 countries into the LLM Class of 2019, chosen from more than 1,300 applicants from over 70 countries, for a year of graduate study.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
Khushboo Goel, an MBA student at Penn’s Wharton School is a summer fellow at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris working on deep decarbonization strategies in India and the United States, through the Kleinman Birol Fellowship from the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
