In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Wharton 22s is an initiative to promote gender parity by encouraging awareness, dialogue, and action by men within the Wharton community. Founded in 2015 as an affiliate of Wharton Women in Business, and with a name that calls attention to the gender pay gap, the 22s organization now has hundreds of members.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
A new rehabilitation program encourages movement as neuroprotective therapy to slow the loss of the dopamine neurons responsible for the physical decline in Parkinson's patients.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A list of the award winners who will be honored at the Student-Alumni-Faculty Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 11th.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing →
Min Yao Li and Sharon Xie are the newest fellows elected to the largest statistician organization in the U.S.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
From monitoring patients' sleep like vital signs, to making hospital room environments more relaxing, researchers with the Rest Project at the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation are working with hospital clinicians to get their patients to sleep better.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A list of this year's 20 students honored for their academic success.
FULL STORY AT Almanac →
For the fifth consecutive year, FactCheck.org has won the Webby Award for best politics website from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. The 22nd Annual Webby Awards honor excellence on the internet, including websites, advertising, apps, and videos.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
The Journal of Obstetric Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing published a special series that detail best practices for the handling, pricing and donating of supplemental breastmilk for newborns. For infants in the NICU, or for mothers with compromised or inadequate amounts of breastmilk, donor milk banks are becoming increasingly popular.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing →
In his 10th year as Penn’s chaplain, The Reverend Charles L. “Chaz” Howard is well-known and revered for his message of love, hope, positivity, and inclusion. Now his student counseling sessions are more popular than ever, in large part due to what he calls a “super-charged political atmosphere,” with an uptick of people who want to talk, particularly minority students who are trying to cope with stress beyond the typical classroom anxieties.
FULL STORY AT The Pennsylvania Gazette →
Two Dental Medicine students who received the American Association for Dental Research award will present their original research projects at the IADR/ER General Session and Exhibition in London this July.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
