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  • Korean Language Program students win at Korean speech contest

    Heejoon Shin, Cat Nguyen, and Kwun Hang Henry Chung from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Korean Language Program participated in the third Mid-Atlantic Korean Speech Contest.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Video educates and connects men to prostate cancer screening options

    Piloted by Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Community Outreach and Engagement team, the effort aims to reach diverse populations and address prostate cancer screening disparities.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Cerianne Robertson named 2024-26 George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow

    Robertson has studied media narratives and discourses that sustain power relations, particularly for cites and sports mega-events at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • Three things all new managers should be doing

    New managers typically receive no training for their new role. Wharton’s Peter Cappelli discusses three common struggles and how to avoid them.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Transportation remains a big barrier to health care

    LDI senior fellow Marina Serper studied how transportation affects Americans with chronic liver disease in the U.S. and the relationship between care-related transportation insecurity and financial security, self-reported health status, work productivity, outpatient and acute health care utilization, and mortality.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Penn Vet’s Dipti Pitta awarded grant to develop technology to mitigate methane emissions

    The funding from Gerstner Philanthropies will study effects of probiotic supplement to prevent methane production in commercial herds.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Vet →

  • Yecheng (Jason) Ma named Apple Scholar in AIML

    Ma, a fourth-year doctoral student in Computer and Information Science has been awarded an Apple Scholars in AIML Ph.D. fellowship for his contributions in computer science and engineering.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • Two Penn Nursing professors selected for induction to the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame

    Penn Nursing’s Eileen Lake and Salimah Meghani will both be honored by Sigma Theta Tau International for their contributions to the nursing profession during the organization’s 35th International Nursing Research Congress in Singapore in July.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Doctors, nurses, and managers received wage hikes after Medicaid expansion while lower-paid workers did not

    In a recent study, Penn LDI fellows find that financial benefits from Medicaid expansion in health systems failed to reach the lowest earners, after reviewing data from 46 states.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Pennovation Works 2023 Year in Review

    The 23-acre innovation hub has published its annual Year in Review roundup, featuring by-the-numbers stats and in-depth looks at the year’s research and growth.

    FULL STORY AT Pennovation Works →