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Ensuring equitable health care for veterans
Pete Groeneveld
  • Q&A

    • Ensuring equitable health care for veterans

    Peter Groeneveld, a Penn physician and director of the Veterans Affairs Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, discusses why this work is so crucial right now and how the VA has evolved in the past three decades.

    Michele W. Berger

    Journalist and activist Maria Ressa on ‘facts, truth, trust’
    Maria Ressa

    Journalist and activist Maria Ressa, a longtime CNN bureau chief who later co-founded Rappler, a digital-only news site in the Philippines, gave the annual Annenberg Lecture in early November.

    Journalist and activist Maria Ressa on ‘facts, truth, trust’

    In the annual Annenberg Lecture, the Nobel Peace Prize winner discussed being the target of online attacks and what it will take to ensure that truth prevails.

    Michele W. Berger

    A FLASH of radiation may pave the way toward new cancer care for people and pets alike
    Meg Ruller with her dog Maple in front of Penn Vet

    (Homepage image) Meg Ruller, a 2018 graduate of the School of Veterinary Medicine, calls the FLASH trials “a fantastic opportunity” for Maple to receive a cutting-edge treatment—and to contribute to a scientific understanding of how FLASH radiation might help others in the future.

    A FLASH of radiation may pave the way toward new cancer care for people and pets alike

    Led by the Perelman School of Medicine’s Keith Cengel and the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Brian Flesner, a new study is evaluating the safety and efficacy of treating oral cancer in dogs with a palliative radiation in just two clinic visits.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Promising efforts to mitigate the opioid crisis
    Opioid bottle with pills.

    Promising efforts to mitigate the opioid crisis

    Margaret Lowenstein, an LDI senior fellow and assistant professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine discusses the increase in opioid and drug overdoses since the COVID-19 pandemic.

    From Penn LDI

    Kenneth Roth on the state of human rights today
    Kenneth Roth stands in front of a wall reading Human Rights Watch and points to the audience

    Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, speaks during the annual press conference of the non governmental organization in Berlin, Germany, in this Jan. 21, 2014 file picture. Roth has been named the inaugural Thakore Family Global Justice and Human Rights Visiting Fellow at Perry World House. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

    Kenneth Roth on the state of human rights today

    Kristen de Groot

    Five election takeaways
    Two men in suits face a large TV screen showing Pennsylvania 2022 Senate election results.

    A cable network television broadcast on the Pennsylvania Senate race with Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Image: AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    Five election takeaways

    Stephanie Perry, executive director of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies and manager for exit polls at NBC News, shares her team’s top five exit-poll analyses to help explain what happened.

    Kristen de Groot

    Want a good read? Check out these award-winning stories
    View of Fisher Fine Arts Library and College Green through a large window inside Van Pelt library seating area.

    Want a good read? Check out these award-winning stories

    From the opening of the Penn Medicine Pavilion to the intricacies of broadband expansion—read some recent Penn Today stories that won district awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

    Dee Patel

    Brazil’s presidential election
    Tulia Falleti, Melissa Teixeira, and Marilene Felinto seated at a table addressing an audience.

    CLALS director Tulia Falleti, CLALS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Marilene Felinto, and Penn historian Melissa Teixeira, discuss Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva’s defeat of right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

    Brazil’s presidential election

    Three experts share their thoughts on Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva’s defeat of right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, and what it means for Latin America’s largest democracy.

    Kristen de Groot