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  • Penn Medicine researchers receive $18 million grant for the Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science

    The grant, awarded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health, will fund the Center's study on the effects of advertising, packaging, and labeling on perceptions, use, and exposure to tobacco products.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Can a lottery help you lose weight?

    Wharton's Mitesh Patel discusses his new research on using lotteries to encourage employees to lose weight.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • L. Scott Levin to serve as President of American Society for the Surgery of the Hand

    Penn Medicine’s L. Scott Levin, the Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery, chairman of the department of Orthopedic Surgery, and a professor of plastic surgery. He will serve in this role through 2019.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • CMSI receives $50,000 gift from tech companies to support women of color in MSI Aspiring Leaders program

    The Center for Minority Serving Institutions’ (CMSI) gift comes from donations from Intel, HP, Apple, Pinterest, and Samsung, in support of its effort to diversify industry and senior leadership. 

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education

  • On the water in Philadelphia

    A summer research seminar by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities  allowed students to conduct research on Philadelphia's waterways and collaborate with community partners.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA

  • Sonari Chidi uses film to put a human face on the need for social change

    Chidi, a cinema and Africana studies major in the Class of 2020, made the film Shattering Refuge, which explores the depictions of refugees and displaced peoples in the media, which won the Rough Cut Film Festival’s prestigious Social Justice Award.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA

  • Penn GSE and Aditya Birla Education Academy partner to train teachers in India in online and blended learning

    Thirty teachers from ABEA will launch a version of the Virtual Online Learning and Teaching Certificate Program, beginning with an intensive training session, virtual one-on-one training, and in-person instruction in Mumbai.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education

  • The auto bailout 10 years later: Was it the right call?

    Wharton's John Paul MacDuffie discusses the GM and Chrysler $80 billion bailouts in 2009, and whether the consequences of the free market or the government should have determined the future of a failing company with 3 million of jobs at risk.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Housing and mortgage markets may have recovered, but risks remain

    Experts at Wharton point to evidence that the decade-long period of economic recovery is at risk: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lack the reserves to weather another crisis, a round of mortgage defaults may be looming, and regulatory oversight have weakened under the Trump administration.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Penn GSE receives grant to train STEM teachers for high-needs schools

    A new partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Pennsylvania Teaching Fellowship will allow Fellows to receive a stipend, training and mentoring in a three-year program, supported by the William Penn Foundation and the Weiss Family Foundation, to prepare and support STEM teachers working in high-needs urban and rural schools.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education