In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The recipients of its 15th annual Urban Leadership Awards, which recognize leaders who are guiding cities toward a sustainable and vibrant future, are Egbert Perry, Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of the Atlanta-based company Integral, and Mauricio Rodas, Mayor of Quito, Ecuador.
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A gift from Robert V. Waife, great-grandson of the writer Sholem Aleichem and President of the Sholom Aleichem Network, Inc. will bring two iconic documents of American Jewish History, the handwritten ethical will and tombstone epitaph of celebrated Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, to the Penn Libraries.
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Throughout 2019, the Wharton School and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics’ Summer Undergraduate Minority Research (SUMR) program celebrates its 20th Anniversary as a pipeline program for exposing underrepresented minorities to the potential of careers in health services research.
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The Penn inductees are Zoltan Arany, Susan Domchek, Scott Halpern, David Margolis, Maria Oquendo, and Drew Weissman.
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On the cusp of graduating with his Master of Urban Spatial Analytics degree from the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Anthony Ayebiahwe is poised to lead A&Co., the startup he founded in January that is creating an affordable, multipurpose rechargeable LED lamp. It’s also developing an alert system for Ghanaians whose lives are impacted regularly by floods.
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Cynthia Sung, Gabel Family Term Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, has been selected to receive a 2019 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty.
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A Philadelphia institution was front and center in the City Council chambers on Thursday, as Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell officially introduced a resolution proclaiming April 21 to be “Penn Relay Carnival Day” in the city of Philadelphia.
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Driscoll has been chair of Penn’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology since 2005. She is widely recognized as a transformative leader and one of the world's leading obstetrician-gynecologist geneticists, specializing in the care of women with genetic disorders. She is also the director of Penn’s Center for Research on Reproduction & Women’s Health and the March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center.
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Breastfeeding is an accepted practice for millions of women worldwide and strongly endorsed by the World Health Organization. To provide appropriate counseling about human milk and breastfeeding, it is important to understand cultural beliefs and customs related to the practice.
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Using a PARP inhibitor as maintenance therapy could provide a less toxic option for patients. Treatment either shrunk tumors or stopped them from growing in 17 of 19 patients in an interim analysis from a trial at the Abramson Cancer Center.
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