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  • Skadden Fellowships

    2024 Penn Carey Law graduates Allison Nasson and Mikaela Wolf-Sorokin have been awarded prestigious Skadden Fellowships.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law

  • Why temporary carbon storage in forests has little climate value

    The climate value of forest carbon depends on how long it stays out of the atmosphere. CO2 consequences stretch into geologic time, but forests and the contracts binding them are temporary.

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center

  • Can’t be yourself at work? Let’s talk about ‘covering’

    Wharton’s Stephanie Creary talks with experts about the harmful effects of “covering,” a strategy in which people downplay their identity to conform to mainstream culture in the workplace.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Mammogram rates increase when patients can schedule themselves

    By making mammograms easy to schedule through personal online patient portals, Penn Medicine research shows a significant increase in screenings for breast cancer.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • New drug helps narrow racial survival disparity in patients with acute myeloid leukemia

    National data shows improved survival for non-Hispanic Black patients, according to a Penn Medicine analysis presented at the 65th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Perry World House announces Visiting Fellows for Thakore Family Global Justice and Human Rights Program

    The Global Justice and Human Rights visiting fellows are Philip Alston, the John Norton Pomeroy professor of law at New York University Law School, and Kate Gilmore is a former United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights, a professor-in-practice with the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an honorary professor with the University of Essex Human Rights Centre.

    FULL STORY AT Perry World House

  • Announcing the 2023 Amy Gutmann Leadership Scholars

    This endowed program—created from a $2M gift to Penn Nursing by former Penn president Amy Gutmann and her husband Michael Doyle—provides financial aid for exemplary undergraduate and graduate nursing students, supplementing their education with tailored learning to help shape nurse leaders who deliver exceptional evidence-based care, design research, inform policy, spark innovation, and advocate for social justice worldwide.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Edward Lin receives award at Harvard Dental School

    Yi Te (Edward) Lin, a third-year periodontal resident and lab member at Penn Engineering and Applied Sciences‘ Electrical and Systems Engineering Department, received the first-place Scientific Poster Award for Student Excellence at the Global Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry hosted by Harvard University’s School of Dental Medicine.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine

  • Celebrating Penn graduate student at the Ghana Energy Awards

    Penn graduate student Justice Ohene-Akoto was honored at the Ghana Energy Awards where participants discussed the best way to bring Ghana to a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive energy future.

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center

  • Penn Medicine at the 2023 ASH Meeting

    Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center and the Perelman School of Medicine will present data on the latest advances in blood cancer and benign hematology research at the 65th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News