In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
A new study in the journal Science found that methane emissions from the U.S. natural gas sector are about 60 percent higher than the Environmental Protection Agency's original estimate.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
Ralph W. Muller, the CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS), will step down in late June of 2019, after a 17-year tenure that helped establish Penn Medicine as one of the top medical centers in the country.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Wharton finance professor Robert Inman makes a compelling argument for why government officials need to make infrastructure a priority.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety is utilizing prolonged exposure therapy for anxiety disorders and trauma that sexual abuse survivors experience, linking PTSD with sexual trauma, not just war trauma.
FULL STORY AT The Pennsylvania Gazette →
As mobile ads become the dominant advertising medium, the General Data Protection Regulation recently went into effect, giving consumers more control over how companies handle their personal data.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Under head coach Colleen Fink, the women's field hockey team will face a 17-game season against competitive non-conference and Ivy League teams.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
Recent philosophy, politics, and economics graduate Lina Qostal explores an alternate career option: professional tennis.
FULL STORY AT The Pennsylvania Gazette →
In an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Penn researchers call for modernizing the way Medicare pays for training nurses, and highlight a successful new model of cost-effectively training more advanced practice nurses to practice community-based primary care.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
The Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions has been awarded $250,000 from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to support its early career faculty development program.
FULL STORY AT Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions →
Pruitt is not the first EPA administrator mired in scandal, and his tenure may last just as long as his ethically-challenged predecessor.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
