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  • Faculty members discuss SCOTUS ruling on DACA

    Howard F. Chang, Earle Hepburn Professor of Law, and Sarah Paoletti, Practice Professor of Law and director, Transnational Legal Clinic, discuss the ruling on DACA, calling the original decision to terminate DACA was “arbitrary and capricious,” and that prior case law does not prevent the executive branch from exercising its prosecutorial discretion to shield unauthorized immigrants from removal.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law

  • Penn to co-lead $6.5 million transatlantic grant to investigate cytoskeleton’s role in heart disease

    Benjamin L. Prosser will serve as the North American coordinator for a new, multi-institutional $6.5 million grant from the Leducq Foundation, aimed at better understanding the role the heart cell cytoskeleton plays in heart disease and finding new ways to treat it.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Penn Dental Medicine pediatrics resident honored by American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry

    Catherine Lee, the recipient of the Resident Recognition Award, was honored based on her commitment to patient care, education, research, and community service.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine

  • Penn’s Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology receives $8 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

    The grant will be distributed over the next five years, from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a renewal of its P30 Environmental Health Sciences Core Center grant.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Four Penn students receive prestigious National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships

    Briana Nichols, Jessica Peng, Chelsea Chamberlain, and Peter Francis Harvey were awarded the honor for their dissertations, which present fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, analysis, or practice of formal or informal education throughout the world. 

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education

  • Daris McInnis, Penn GSE doctoral student and Army vet, named a Tillman Scholar

    After teaching in schools and nonprofit literacy programs, and looking at new ways to serve marginalized communities, McInnis has been named a Tillman Scholar. He is the first Penn GSE student, and is believed to be the first Black Penn student, to receive the honor.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education

  • Urban resiliency in the time of COVID

    Many tools available to reduce the risks and impacts of the virus are the same tools long advocated for by planning experts as a means to help protect cities from climate change, tackle systemic inequalities, and improve well-being. The Kleinman Center’s Oscar Serpell argues that these tools to be a key part of a COVID recovery plan.

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center

  • Featured (e)Books: Pride 2020

    June 2020 marks the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and the 50th anniversary of the first official Gay Pride march in the United States. The Penn Libraries celebrates Pride Month with its latest medley of virtual resources, and also solicited electronic book and journal recommendations from the Penn LGBT Center—the second oldest university LGBT+ center in the United States. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries

  • How a Green New Deal could redraw America’s map

    Two environmental designers discuss The 2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal, including what a future map of America, shaped by climate change and a Green New Deal, might look like, as climate change will alter where Americans live and work, and produce energy and food.

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center

  • Grace Cho and Raymond Magsaysay selected for the Don H. Liu Scholars Program

    The two are are members of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. They will each receive a scholarship of $15,000 as well as mentorship and assistance with their career development.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law