In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
While his country is in crisis, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is emerging as a masterful communicator and charismatic leader whose management style is reminiscent of some of the greatest statesmen in history, says Wharton’s Michael Useem.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Members of CHIBE are co-leading an initiative to identify structural and institutional causes of health inequities and racism, transform those practices, and significantly improve health equity in Philadelphia. The initiative is called Accelerate Health Equity, and is led by Penn Medicine and Independence Blue Cross.
FULL STORY AT Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics →
In this course, students immerse themselves in strategy and storytelling to change the world. Over the semester, lecturers in Law Benjamin Jealous and Ariel Schwartz help them to create a plan to achieve their goal.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice co-facilitated a community-centered Sentinel Event Review of five critical incidents that took place during the second week of protests in Seattle following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police.
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In 2015, an environmental policy group discovered a massive fraud by Volkswagen: A line of “clean diesel” cars including popular Beetle, Golf, and Jetta models were instead excessively dirty—producing up to 150 times the pollutant levels of gasoline-powered models. Penn LDI senior fellow Diane Alexander calculated the excess pollution from the scam and the impact on infant and child health.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The dissertation of M. Alice Bennett, the first woman to receive a degree from Penn, sheds light on her medical interests as a student at Penn’s School of Auxiliary Medicine before she began a career in psychiatry and women’s health care. This dissertation is fully catalogued and is available in Colenda, the Penn Libraries’ digital repository, for anyone to view.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
The panel featured professor of law William Burke-White, Perry World House Professor of Practice of Law and Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, Philip Nichols of the Wharton School and the Russia and East European Studies program, and Victoria Kaplan, who is from Ukraine and an associate in Dechert’s global finance group.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
Mia Bay, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, won this year’s Bancroft Prize for her book, “Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance.” The prize is considered one of the most prestigious honors in the field of American history.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
The Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing and Chair of the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences will be honored by Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) for her contributions to the nursing profession during the organization’s 33rd International Nursing Research Congress in July.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
A new study details the differences between the two forms of the protein PPARgamma, a target of “glitazone” diabetes drugs, could cut out weight gain side effects.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
