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Nationwide study aims to improve longterm lung transplant outcome
A multicenter study, led by Penn Medicine, will examine data from 4,000-plus lung transplant recipients to uncover drivers behind post-transplant complications.
Penn GSE and the School District of Philadelphia to strengthen principal leadership pipeline
The School District of Philadelphia’s Board of Education recently approved the Innovative Principal Residence Program at the Graduate School of Education. Four School District of Philadelphia (SDP) teachers will spend a year preparing to lead high-needs schools in the principal residency program, which was created as a collaboration between Penn GSE and the SDP.
Women’s basketball shares top spot in preseason Ivy poll
The women's basketball team was picked to finish at the same level in the Ivy League that they finished last year: atop the conference. The Quakers earned 125 points in the preseason poll, matched by Princeton's 125, as the Ivy favorites.
Penn’s 1959 football team returned to campus for the Penn–Dartmouth football game on October 4 to celebrate a title that still seems improbable 60 years later.
Men’s basketball picked second in Ivy preseason media poll
The men’s basketball team was picked to finish second in the 2019-20 Ivy League’s Preseason Media Poll, which came from the votes of two members within each school’s media contingent in addition to one national voter.
Iuliia Bryzgalova and Marija Curnic captured the ITA Northeast Regional doubles crown for the women’s tennis team on Tuesday afternoon, capping a week of unbeaten play, rattling off six wins to clinch a berth in November’s Oracle ITA Fall National Championships.
National impact of Penn Medicine Nudge Unit concept spreads
Health services researchers, clinicians, health system and health plan executives from across the country filled the auditorium of Penn’s Biomedical Research Building for the two-day 2019 “Nudges in Health Care Symposium.”
The Lipman Family Prize is excited to announce the 2020 Beacon Awards, which will be presented in October 2020, during the Wharton Global Forum. The Beacon Awards are designed to reward and support Lipman Family Prize honorees who have demonstrated success in growing their social impact efforts. Eligible honorees will be invited in October 2019 to submit an Expression of Interest, and qualified candidates will be asked to provide their Growth Narrative by February 2020.
Take a first-person tour of the Detkin Lab via flying robot
Flying with a first-person view, thanks to a VR headset, you can join roboticist, pilot and recent alum Yash Mulgaonkar on a quick spin around the lab.