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  • What will Maduro’s re-election mean for Venezuela?

    An arguably sham election prompts a political scientist at Penn to discuss the country's current crisis, and whether a regime change is the solution. 

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Black in white space

    Black people still feel the need to tread lightly, or not at all, in “white spaces” in light of recent discriminatory attacks and arrests. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn IUR →

  • Can bundled payments help control health care costs?

    New research out of the Perelman School of Medicine shows that bundled Medicare payments effectively reduced costs and improved the quality of health care. It may be key to slowing or even reversing the rise of health care costs in the country.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Dental student Samaneh Mojarrad receives Student of the Year Award

    The Journal of Clinical Orthodontics (JCO) recently announced the selection of Dr. Samaneh Mojarrad (GD’18), a Penn Dental Medicine orthodontics resident and Master of Science in Oral Biology (MSOB) candidate, as the winner of the 2018 Eugene L. Gottlieb JCO Student of the Year Award. Dr. Mojarrad was chosen over 21 other students from schools around the United States in a two-stage competition judged by members of the JCO editorial board.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Transplantation pioneer receives Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology

    Dr. Ali Naji, the J. William White Professor of Surgical Research at the Perelman School of Medicine wins one of the highest honors for a transplant surgeon-scientist as an esteemed kidney and pancreas transplant surgeon, immunologist, and researcher.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Lowering drug prices: will the cost outweigh the cure?

    Experts at Wharton and Drexel analyze whether lowered prescription drug costs will be damaging to future drug research and manufacturing, and what is more important in the short and long-term for patients. 

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Why monarchies rule when it comes to standard of living

    A Wharton management professional finds that despite individual big-ticket taxpayer items like a royal wedding, the long-term effects of monarchies are good for economies. 

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  • Penn IUR launches new public finance website

    A new resource launched by the Penn Institute for Urban Research aggregates news, data, and analyses by expert researchers on state and local public finance.

    FULL STORY AT Penn IUR →

  • APPC and iCivics team up on game to teach media literacy

    The Annenberg Public Policy Center has partnered with iCivics, the education nonprofit founded by Sandra Day O’Connor, to create a free online game that teaches students and adults to recognize “fake news.”

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • Making progress on the Pavilion

    The history and progress of Penn's largest building project, the Pavilion hospital, already serving as a site for quality healthcare for its construction crew.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →