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  • How to lend a (socially distanced) helping hand this holiday season

    While the pandemic has restricted in-person activities, Penn has found ways to adapt and still safely give back and volunteer.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • How student loan forgiveness could increase inequality

    Partial or full student loan forgiveness is “regressive,” according to a recent working paper by Wharton’s Sylvain Catherine, who argues that any policy that is a universal loan forgiveness policy or a capped forgiveness policy is going to give most of the dollars in forgiveness to upper-income individuals.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Firooz Aflatouni wins 2020 Bell Labs Prize

    The associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, in collaboration with Farshid Ashtiani, a postdoctoral scholar in Aflatouni’s research group, won the top prize for their proposal for “Integrated Photonic-mmWave Deep Networks.”

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • Penn Athletics adopts recommendations developed by Racial Justice Task Force

    The Racial Justice Task Force focused on both short- and long-term recommendations over the course of four months. The recommendations were presented to AD Grace Calhoun and the Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics (DRIA) executive team and unanimously approved. These recommendations provide direction and intention to DRIA’s efforts to become a more diverse, inclusive, anti-racist organization.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →

  • Scientists unveil a promising new strategy for combating pancreatic cancer

    A DNA mutation that occurs frequently in the development of many pancreatic tumors appears to make these cancers vulnerable to an existing type of drug known as PARP inhibitors, according to a new study from scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Fewer than 2% of OB-GYN doctors can prescribe life-saving opioid treatment

    Examining countrywide data, the researchers hoped to gauge how many obstetrician-gynecologists have their waiver to prescribe buprenorphine.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Discovery upends traditional view of ‘killer T cells’ travels in the body

    Immune cells called “killer T cells” normally stay in the bloodstream and do not enter organs and other tissues, according to a new study out of the Perelman School of Medicine published in Cell.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Kafai’s team helps students who code tell their own stories

    For this year’s Computer Science for Philly Week, Penn GSE’s Yasmin Kafai and her team designed CodeQuilt Philadelphia, a collaborative activity that allows students to take ownership of their own stories about coding.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →

  • Grammy nomination for album featuring music by James Primosch

    The album Catharge, with music composed by James Primosch, Dr. Robert Weiss Professor of Music, has received a Grammy nomination for Best Choral Performance. Carthage was recorded by The Crossing, with Donald Nally conducting.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Comfort for parents mourning a stillborn child

    Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health’s Women & Babies Hospital offers supportive services to parents after a stillbirth, which is defined in Pennsylvania as the loss of a baby at 16 weeks or later in a pregnancy, or a newborn death.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →