In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate and professor of finance at the Wharton School has won the 2022 John M. Quigley Medal for Advancing Real Estate and Urban Economics for her research in housing finance, real estate economics, and urban economics.
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Mark S. Wolff was recognized by Philadelphia-based Nationalities Service Center (NSC) for the School’s service to refugees and other vulnerable populations as one of the honorees at NSC’s annual benefit. In 2019, Penn Dental Medicine started its Dental Care Center for Vulnerable Populations to provide dental care to refugees and survivors of psychological and physical violence in partnership with NSC, a refugee services organization, which refers its clients there for dental care.
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Penn Medicine hospitals are recognized by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation for promoting equitable and inclusive care for LGBTQ+ patients and their families.
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The cell manufacturing process for CAR T immunotherapy typically takes nine to 14 days. A team in the Perelman School of Medicine abbreviated this process and generated functional CAR T cells with enhanced anti-tumor potency in just 24 hours.
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A new study by researchers from the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds evidence that exposure to alternative health media affects beliefs about consequential health-care issues like vaccinations.
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According to Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Kevin Werbach, the Biden administration’s executive order to develop a national policy on cryptocurrency and digital assets is an important first step in setting some guardrails around a global market now worth more than $3 trillion.
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The Manuel M. Album Award is presented annually to an individual or organization that has made the greatest contribution to the oral health of children with special needs. Beginning in 2021, the School’s Care Center for Persons with Disabilities provides comprehensive restorative and preventive dental care to children and adults with wide-ranging disabilities.
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Jason Karlawish, co-director of the Penn Memory Center, will be collaborating on a project titled “Health and Financial Implications of Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias” with a four-year grant from National Institute on Aging to gather information on money management in patients with cognitive impairment.
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The recently appointed Penn’s 29th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor is the James W. Effron University Professor, with joint appointments in the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Department of Sociology. He is also the author of many scholarly articles and book chapters about gentrification, housing policy, urban poverty, neighborhood change, and residential segregation.
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Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, recently published “Race,” a chapter in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, created by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. Roberts’ chapter intertwines the subjects of two of Roberts’ seminal works, “Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century” and “Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty.”
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