In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Delta Dental's Oral Health Education grant will award two $25,000 scholarships each year to dental medicine students who participate in community outreach as students and plan to work with underserved populations after graduation.
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Wharton Dean Geoffrey Garrett discusses the impact of the financial crisis and red flags in today's economy.
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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.
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Wharton's Mitesh Patel discusses his new research on using lotteries to encourage employees to lose weight.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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