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The scholarship is designated for a student within Penn Dental Medicine’s Master of Science in Oral and Population Health program, and awards $45,000 annually for two years.
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Domchek is the Basser Professor in Oncology in the Perelman School of Medicine and executive director of the Basser Center for BRCA at Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center, where she also serves as director of the Mariann and Robert MacDonald Cancer Risk Evaluation Program; the ASCO-American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Award is bestowed upon a distinguished expert who has made significant contributions to cancer prevention and control research or practice.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Wharton School and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics will use the $3.5 million gift to establish the Davis Family SUMR Program Endowment Fund, with an additional $1 million matching challenge from the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund, to provide long-term support for the Summer Undergraduate Mentored Research program, a cornerstone initiative focused on advancing equity in the health care profession.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
A new survey from Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults support requiring that children be vaccinated against preventable diseases such as measles, mumps, and rubella. To protect children who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons, over half of Americans also support states prohibiting other unvaccinated children from attending school, either private or public. However, support for this prohibition has dropped significantly since the spring of 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
Wharton’s Benjamin Keys highlights the key lessons from the California wildfires for policymakers, insurers, and homeowners.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The new film festival, “Global Lens: Visions of Resilience,” will focus on short documentaries featuring stories of resilience.
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Ari Goldstein and Douglas Snyder are the winners of the 2025 Keedy Cup competition, with their arguments for the respondents in the competition’s case, NVIDIA Corporation v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB. The Keedy Cup is the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s intramural moot court competition.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
The study investigated the “Other” race category on birth certificates to see how this category could affect reporting of preterm birth inequities. Using millions of Pennsylvania birth certificates from 2006 to 2014, the team analyzed the 6.1% of birth certificates that had the “Other” race designation accompanied by a patient-provided write-in response. The team discovered that recategorizing the “Other” category based on combinations of race, ethnicity, and geographic origin reveals overlooked disparities.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy can progress slower and cause less impairment of cognitive functions than other types of dementia.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The MRMJJ Presidential Professor of Education at Penn GSE and has been a faculty member since 2004; her scholarship has focused on how schools and universities can help sustain and advance democracy.
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