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Penn Forms New Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare

President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price have formed a new Task Force on Student Psychological Health and Welfare.  The Task Force will examine the challenges confronting students that can affect their psychological health and wellbeing; review and assess the efficacy of Penn resources for helping students manage psychological problems, stress, or situational crises; and make recommendations related to programs, policies, and practices designed to improve the quality and safety of student life.

Penn IUR Hosts Dialogue: Building Scholarship Critical to Building a Sustainable Urban Future

Penn Medicine: Trauma Patients' Insurance Status May Influence Hospital Transfer Decisions

Each year trauma injuries account for 42 million emergency department visits and 2 million hospital admissions across the nation. Timely care in a designated trauma center has been shown to reduce mortality by up to 25 percent. However many patients are not transferred to trauma centers if they are first seen in a non-trauma center facility.

Penn IUR Hosts Program on City Soundscapes: Music, Words & Identities in Urban America

WHAT:In City Soundscapes: Music, Words & Identities in Urban America, a Penn Institute for Urban Research Seminar highlighting the 10-year anniversary of Penn IUR, Nick Spitzer, producer of NPR’s “American Routes” and a Penn alumnus, will discuss the intersection of cities, music and civic life.

Penn Lightbulb Café Presents Tukufu Zuberi on ‘The Other African-Americans’

WHO:            Tukufu Zuberi                       Lasry Professor of Race Relations, Department of Sociology

Penn’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy Helps Donors With ‘Saving Children’s Lives’

Every year, nearly seven million children will die from preventable causes like diarrhea, pneumonia or measles before they reach the age of 5.

Three Penn Researchers Awarded Sloan Fellowships

Three University of Pennsylvania faculty members are among this year’s Sloan Fellowship recipients. Since 1955, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has granted yearly fellowships to early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them the next generation of scientific leaders. Penn’s 2014 Sloan Fellows are:

John Legend to Speak at Penn’s 258th Commencement

John Legend, a nine-time Grammy Award-winning soul artist, philanthropist and Penn alumnus will deliver the address at the University of Pennsylvania’s Commencement on Monday, May 19, Leslie Laird Kruhly, Vice President and University Secretary announced.

University of Pennsylvania Student Wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship

University of Pennsylvania senior Sonya Davey has been awarded a 2014 Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Penn Medicine Launches Nationwide "Impressions of Philadelphia" Photography Contest

Penn Medicine, in partnership with the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, today announced a new opportunity for photographers to have their work displayed in a unique setting. Up to 25 images depicting the theme “Impressions of Philadelphia” will be selected for large format wall displays (approximately 19x19 feet) in public areas of the new Pavilion for Advanced Care (PAC) at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.