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  • First cohort of Jacobs Education Impact Prize Fellows receives funding to develop impact ventures

    In 2022, Penn GSE launched a new partnership with the Jacobs Foundation to support the next generation of education entrepreneurs. The project seeks to create lasting change in the lives of learners worldwide by establishing a new education innovation model pipeline and accelerator. The prize’s first recipients are Aqeela Allahyari, Sidra Alvi, Psacoya Guinn, Neha Gupta, Heidi Mitchell, and Natalia Rodriguez.

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  • How better feedback at work can also reduce gender disparities

    Penn researchers have looked at factors that might lead to gender disparities in emergency medicine (EM), and found that gender played a role in both the content and quality of feedback. In a study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers analyzed narrative comments for EM residents from EM attending physicians over a three-year period, across five EM training programs nationwide. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Incomplete electronic health records can exacerbate bias in predictive models

    Electronic health records (EHR) data are often incomplete, creating a significant challenge for researchers, and data gaps may be unequally distributed across patient groups: People with less access to care, often people of color or with lower socioeconomic status, tend to have more incomplete EHRs. A new study from Penn LDI finds that predictive models trained using incomplete EHR data performed poorly for patients with lower access to care.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Over $5M awarded to community violence reduction programs at Penn Medicine

    The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency has awarded grants to three community violence prevention and intervention programs across Penn Medicine: The School District of Philadelphia’s Safe Path to School Program, the Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program, and the Prolonged Exposure to Address Community Violence (PEACE) Project.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • New books from Penn GSE professors focus on free speech on campus

    Two prominent free-speech experts and Penn GSE professors, Sigal Ben-Porath and Jonathan Zimmerman, have each published new books that explore the current “cancel culture” phenomenon and how it impinges on students’ learning, American culture, and constructive discourse.

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  • States are increasingly powerful in shaping the lives of immigrants

    New research by LDI senior fellow Courtney finds that immigrant workers who are naturalized U.S. citizens report less use of health care and greater barriers to treatment, and offers recommendations for how policymakers can improve the health of immigrants.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • The brewing backlash over rewards programs

    Customers are unhappy when their favorite retailers make it harder to earn rewards, as Starbucks, Dunkin’ and Best Buy have recently done. But firms have to walk a fine line between customer loyalty and profits, says Wharton’s Raghuram Iyengar.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • New center will tackle racial disparities in maternal health

    The University of Pennsylvania is now home to the inaugural March of Dimes Research Center for Advancing Maternal Health Equity, making it a focal point for maternal health equity research and racial disparity solutions.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Penn Nursing focuses on achieving equitable primary care

    Data shows that unless the pattern of furnishing primary health care, particularly to underserved groups in both urban and rural areas, is drastically improved, these groups will suffer in inequitable and unnecessary ways. It is clear that the primary care workforce must be expanded and diversified.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • What will Biden’s income-driven repayment plan cost?

    The Biden administration’s effort to make student loans affordable with the latest Income-Driven Repayment plan will cost the government more than double its estimates, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →