In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Hub for Equity, Anti-Oppression, Research, and Development (HEARD) is established to draw together members of our community committed to equity and anti-oppression scholarship, and to provide opportunities for continuing learning.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
PennDesign’s distinguished center for training and research in the technical conservation of the built environment, The Center for Architectural Conservation, led by Frank G. Matero, has a new home and a new name.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Alexander Proekt and Max B. Kelz are part of Penn’s Center for the Neuroscience of Unconsciousness and Reanimation Research Alliance, driving research on the unconscious mind and the mechanisms behind states of anesthesia and wakefulness.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Advanced Certificate in Oncology Social Work is a 12-month program, which includes monthly sessions taught at the Perelman School of Medicine, that trains social workers to specifically respond to cancer patients with guidance, advocacy, and support in coping with their diagnoses.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
The task of designing a logo has historically been viewed as an art more than a science, but Wharton marketing professor Ryan Dew’s new paper, “Letting Logos Speak: A Machine Learning Approach to Data-driven Logo Design,” proposes a more data-driven approach.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
With a high-resolution image of an ion channel protein, researchers will now be able to use bioinformatics to discover compounds that interact with that protein to treat and prevent kidney stones in at-risk populations.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Penn Law professor Maggie McKinley uncovers the previously unexplored origins of the modern administrative state in the history of Congressional petitioning in a recent article in the Yale Law Journal.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
Wharton's Matthew Bidwell and Marshall W. Meyer discuss Amazon's decision to raise its minimum wage for employees.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
As an eighth-grader living with a cancer diagnosis, Alli Kellers suddenly faced an entirely new set of teenage challenges. Her cancer treatment required a full team of experts in her hometown of Lancaster and Philadelphia, including a pediatric neurosurgeon, oncologist, radiologist and behavioral health counselor.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Current and former faculty and residents from Penn Dental Medicine’s Department of Oral Medicine played key roles in the 7th World Workshop of Oral Medicine held in Gothenburg, Sweden, September 24-26, 2018.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
