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  • Penn Dental dean Mark Wolff honored by Nationalities Service Center for service to vulnerable populations

    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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  • Susan Wachter receives Quigley Medal

    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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  • Alternative health media consumption and vaccine views

    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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  • Penn Medicine recognized as LGBTQ+ health care equality leader

    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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  • Penn researchers shorten manufacturing time for CAR T cell therapy

    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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  • Why the U.S. government should regulate cryptocurrency

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry to recognize care center for serving children with special needs

    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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  • New project to study the financial symptoms of Alzheimer’s

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Memory Center →

  • Lance Freeman: Penn IUR Fellow and one leading scholars of urban housing and gentrification

    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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  • Art initiative displays community thanks for Penn Medicine health care workers

    Penn Medicine unveiled a new digital art collaboration, #phillyheARTsyou, with five local and national artists—from Philadelphia to Los Angeles—that shows support and gratitude from the community for health care workers and their dedication during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →