In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
In addition to Penn’s LGBT Center Pride activities throughout the month, the LGBT Center staff has provided the Penn Libraries with the recommendations, including picks on history, social movements, and dramas.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
A research paper co-authored by Wharton’s Daniel Taylor forms the basis for a bill in Congress that aims to level the ground on insider trading disclosures.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
In the spring of 2022, Penn IUR sponsored the 18th annual Undergraduate Urban Research Colloquium (UURC), an advanced research seminar for undergraduate scholars with an interest in urban-focused research that pairs students with a faculty mentor with expertise in their areas of interest and presents the opportunity to learn about urban related research in an interdisciplinary setting.
FULL STORY AT Penn IUR →
The personalized cellular therapy pioneered at Penn receives approval for treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
During the summer of 2022, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School will host “Race and Regulation,” a podcast series that will focus on the most fundamental responsibility of any society: ensuring equal justice, dignity, and respect to all people.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
Philadelphia artist Symone Salib created the 13x14-foot mural in partnership with faculty at Central Montco Technical High School (CMTHS) faculty, the CMTHS Student Equity Crew, which is a group of students that work to promote equity and inclusion in the school's community, and the Penn Consortium for Mental Health and Optimal Development at Penn GSE.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
How do you define a category that includes hundreds of cultures and languages and millennia of history? Penn Arts & Sciences programs are advancing knowledge about Asia and Asian populations.
FULL STORY AT OMNIA →
The Executive Director of Penn Dental Medicine’s Center for Integrative Global Oral Health, has been recognized for his leadership by the Academy of Dentistry International for 2021. The award honors career contributions to dentistry, international education, and service.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Prior research linked a more positive social environment—one where people feel connected to each other and are willing to help one another and where community members feel safe—to better health outcomes. A Penn LDI team surveyed 300 low-income mothers and caregivers of preschool-aged children in Philadelphia on their stress levels and their views of their neighborhood social environment, and found that mothers who perceived their neighborhoods as safer had lower stress, as did mothers who perceived their neighborhood as having higher collective efficacy.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Five HBCUs—Howard University, Morehouse College, Oakwood University, Spelman College, and Xavier University of Louisiana—partner with the Penn Access Summer Scholars Program to expand the pipeline of students underrepresented in medicine.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
