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  • Amazon’s $15 minimum wage: What’s the end game?

    Wharton's Matthew Bidwell and Marshall W. Meyer discuss Amazon's decision to raise its minimum wage for employees.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • For teenage cancer patients, social well-being is a priority

    As an eighth-grader living with a cancer diagnosis, Alli Kellers suddenly faced an entirely new set of teenage challenges. Her cancer treatment required a full team of experts in her hometown of Lancaster and Philadelphia, including a pediatric neurosurgeon, oncologist, radiologist and behavioral health counselor.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Penn Dental active in World Workshop on Oral Medicine

    Current and former faculty and residents from Penn Dental Medicine’s Department of Oral Medicine played key roles in the 7th World Workshop of Oral Medicine held in Gothenburg, Sweden, September 24-26, 2018.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Penn Medicine welcomes inaugural chief research information officer

    Danielle Mowery, will also lead the Clinical Research Informatics Core (CIC) in the Institute for Biomedical Informatics. The new role supports the evolution of clinical and translation research with a focus on data analytics and integration.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Chioma Woko named Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy research scholar

    Annenberg School for Communication doctoral student Chioma Woko has been named to its 2018 cohort of Health Policy Research Scholars for her work as a a health communication doctoral student studying health behaviors online. She is conducting research on what factors influence people in social networks to carry out health behaviors, such as physical activity, contraceptive use, and tobacco-related behaviors.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • Three Penn Nursing faculty members named LDI Senior Fellows

    Of the eighteen new Senior Fellows to the Leonard Davis Institute, three members are from Penn Nursing:  Nancy Hodgson, Ariana Chao, PhD, and Pamela Cacchione.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Analysis reveals genomic effects of a new cancer treatment now in clinical trials

    A study led by Eric J. Brown, an associate professor of cancer biology in the Perelman School of Medicine, identifies a new approach to the molecular mechanism of cancer drugs could aid in better identifying the best treatments for patients for an array of cancers.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Delaying Social Security: How lump sum payments can help

    Wharton's Olivia Mitchell discusses her research on how to convince people to delay claiming Social Security benefits.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Kimberly Trout named a fellow in the American College of Nurse-Midwives

    Trout is an assistant professor of women’s health in the Department of Family and Community Health, and the track lead of the Nurse-Midwifery Graduate Program.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Penn Medicine experts call for transparency on joint-venture dialysis clinics

    Experts in nephrology and health policy call for more transparency about joint-venture ownership of dialysis clinics to better understand what impact these arrangements may have on patient referrals and clinical outcomes. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →