In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Gift of Life Donor Dash raises awareness of how critical organ donation is and honors all donors who give others a second chance at life. The Penn Medicine team raised more than $2,200 for the 2019 Dash. This year, HUP took the goal to raise awareness one step further—holding its own “dash” on 10 patient care units.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research’s award establishes a new center within the Abramson Cancer Center.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Jax Lastinger, a student in Penn GSE’s Education, Culture, and Society master’s program, received the 2019 Award for Promoting Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion at Penn GSE’s commencement.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Held at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice, the Data for Equitable Justice Lab Symposium featured an afternoon of engaging and discussion-worthy presentations on each student’s chosen areas of research and advocacy, led by Dan Treglia, a postdoctoral fellow at SP2 and lecturer in the MSSP program.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
With Amicus Therapeutics, Penn’s gene therapy technologies from the Wilson Lab will have exclusive disease-specific worldwide rights for the majority of lysosomal disorders and twelve additional rare diseases.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Heterodox Academy has given Penn GSE education historian Jonathan Zimmerman its 2019 Open Inquiry Leadership Award. Zimmerman, a founding member of the Heterodox Academy, has worked to bring students and faculty with differing political viewpoints together.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
The assistant professor of history of art received the award from the Association of Print Scholars for an article published by an early-career scholar that features compelling and innovative research on prints or printmaking.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
As 2019 New America National Fellow, Jackson is looking at how contemporary black media makers and cultural workers like education journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, and author Ta-Nehisi Coates are challenging the mainstream ways we talk about race and inequality.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
Penn LPS students win case competition at the sixth annual Wharton People Analytics Conference.
FULL STORY AT OMNIA →
The founding director of Penn Medicine’s Center for Digital Health was selected for a three-year term beginning in July.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
