In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The climate value of forest carbon depends on how long it stays out of the atmosphere. CO2 consequences stretch into geologic time, but forests and the contracts binding them are temporary.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
By making mammograms easy to schedule through personal online patient portals, Penn Medicine research shows a significant increase in screenings for breast cancer.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Wharton’s Stephanie Creary talks with experts about the harmful effects of “covering,” a strategy in which people downplay their identity to conform to mainstream culture in the workplace.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
National data shows improved survival for non-Hispanic Black patients, according to a Penn Medicine analysis presented at the 65th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Global Justice and Human Rights visiting fellows are Philip Alston, the John Norton Pomeroy professor of law at New York University Law School, and Kate Gilmore is a former United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights, a professor-in-practice with the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an honorary professor with the University of Essex Human Rights Centre.
FULL STORY AT Perry World House →
This endowed program—created from a $2M gift to Penn Nursing by former Penn president Amy Gutmann and her husband Michael Doyle—provides financial aid for exemplary undergraduate and graduate nursing students, supplementing their education with tailored learning to help shape nurse leaders who deliver exceptional evidence-based care, design research, inform policy, spark innovation, and advocate for social justice worldwide.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Yi Te (Edward) Lin, a third-year periodontal resident and lab member at Penn Engineering and Applied Sciences‘ Electrical and Systems Engineering Department, received the first-place Scientific Poster Award for Student Excellence at the Global Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry hosted by Harvard University’s School of Dental Medicine.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Penn graduate student Justice Ohene-Akoto was honored at the Ghana Energy Awards where participants discussed the best way to bring Ghana to a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive energy future.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center and the Perelman School of Medicine will present data on the latest advances in blood cancer and benign hematology research at the 65th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
LDI senior fellow Paula Chatterjee says the flaws of the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Payment Programs are its failure to effectively target federal safety-net funding for hospitals, lowering the quality of care and outcomes for safety-net patients, particularly for those of color.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
