In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Former Penn standout Dave Merrick and current assistant Kevin Quinn will be inducted into the Belmont Plateau Cross Country Hall of Fame on Saturday, August 25 at the Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities has awarded Penn Medicine bioethicist and PIK professor, Jonathan D. Moreno, its 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award. Moreno is being honored for his “innumerable scholarly writings, service to national and international commissions and contributions to public discourse on bioethics.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Humanities professor Jamal J. Elias studies the emotional space occupied by children in modern Islamic societies in a new book, a visual representation of childhood in Islamic societies.
FULL STORY AT OMNIA →
The Penn Medicine postdoc trainees, along with their mentors, will partner with GlaxoSmithKline to conduct pharmaceutical research in their respective fields.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
In collaboration with Merck Animal Health, the School of Veterinary Medicine hosted its latest Swine University this summer, to educate veterinarians on swine health management and production.
FULL STORY AT Penn Vet →
Alumna social entrepreneur Gayle Jennings-O’Byrne is changing the market for women entrepreneurs of color with her iNTENT Manifesto, a financial education platform.
FULL STORY AT Wharton Social Impact Initiative →
The gift will establish the Blavatnik Family Fellowship in Biomedical Research in the Penn Biomedical Graduate Studies (BGS) program. Six Penn BGS students for each of the next four academic years will be awarded funds as they begin independent investigations.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Head coach of women's rowing, Wesley Ng, has announced the program's list of recruits, following a spring season finishing a best-ever third at the Ivy League Championship.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
A small percentage of the population—approximately one percent of Americans—suffers from summer seasonal affective disorder, also called reverse SAD. An excess of bright light can slow melatonin production which our body needs to get ready to sleep, and can result in insomnia. A decreased level of melatonin also impacts our mood, and can lead to depressive symptoms.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Three individual pieces of Queen Puabi’s diadems, a collection of 10,000 lapis lazuli beads and golden pendants, are on display currently at Penn Museum’s Middle East Galleries. They were once displayed as a six-piece set, and prior to that were all part of a monolithic object, raising the question of how were they originally originally assembled and worn in the first place.
FULL STORY AT Penn Museum Blog →
