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Exploring racism’s health impact in a VA renal clinic
African American person at a renal clinic with a blanket on their lap and an IV in their hand.

Exploring racism’s health impact in a VA renal clinic

A new study by Penn LDI’s Kevin Jenkins provides new insights into how structural racism impacts Black patients’ lives and treatment experience for chronic kidney disease.

Hoag Levins

From Buddhist temples to Penn Libraries
Rebecca Mendelson poses outside the library in front of green bushes

Rebecca Mendelson is the new Japanese and Korean Studies Librarian. (Image: Courtesy of Brian Hogan)

From Buddhist temples to Penn Libraries

Rebecca Mendelson is wrapping up her first academic year in person in her new role managing the Libraries’ Japanese and Korean Collections.

Kristen de Groot

Streamlining the health care supply chain
William and Luka pose in front of College Hall

William Danon and Luka Yancopoulos pose in front of College Hall in April 2022. They are co-founders of Grapevine and the winners of the 2022 President’s Innovation Prize. 

Streamlining the health care supply chain

William Danon and Luka Yancopoulos, winners of the 2022 President’s Innovation Prize, will offer a software solution to make the health care supply chain more efficient.
Talking admissions with Whitney Soule
Whitney Soule.

Whitney Soule, vice provost and dean of admissions. (Image: Lisa Godfrey)

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    • Talking admissions with Whitney Soule

    As vice provost and dean of admissions, Soule is challenged daily with thinking strategically about undergraduate enrollment at Penn—from recruitment to application processes and all that goes into admitting a class, to how financial aid and retention fits into the mix.

    Lauren Hertzler

    Reimagining the corner store to promote food justice
    Eli Moraru, Charles Reeves, and Alex Imbot sit on Reeves' front porch in South Philadelphia

    Eli Moraru (left) and Alexandre Imbot (right) have been working with community activist Charles Reeves (center) for two years. Their project, The Community Grocer, hopes to make nutrition accessible for all residents of Reeves’ South Philadelphia neighborhood.

    Reimagining the corner store to promote food justice

    With a 2022 President’s Sustainability Prize, Eli Moraru and Alexandre Imbot will take raw ingredients payable with EBT and turn them into hot, heathy meals while providing nutritional education resources.

    Kristina García

    How price shocks in formative years scar consumption for life
    Car parked between pumps at a gas station in the 1970s beneath a sign reading STANDARD OIL COMPANY.

    How price shocks in formative years scar consumption for life

    Teens who experienced gas price shocks of the 1970s drive less in later years, according to experts at Wharton and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

    From Knowledge at Wharton

    Illuminating lung cancer earlier, at the cellular level
    X-ray of a biopsy with a cancerous cell circled in red.

    Scan of a patient in the Penn Medicine led-study with a lung nodule, circled in red. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

    Illuminating lung cancer earlier, at the cellular level

    A Penn Medicine study reveals that technology combined with an imaging agent can light up microscopic cancer cells, allowing physicians to see cancer cells not typically visible during a biopsy.

    Caren Begun

    ‘Oft-delayed but never deterred,’ Class of 2020 and 2021 grads celebrate
    graduates toss caps at commencement

    (Homepage image) An in-person Commencement, held at Franklin Field on May 22, represented a long-awaited milestone for the Class of 2020 and graduate students from the Class of 2021.

    ‘Oft-delayed but never deterred,’ Class of 2020 and 2021 grads celebrate

    Embodying adaptability and persistence, themes of the speech by Angela Duckworth, alums from the classes of 2020 and 2021 returned to campus to make up for a missed milestone.
    Why more companies are standing up on social issues
    Person working on a laptop looking at their smartphone with a news feed on it.

    Why more companies are standing up on social issues

    From the war in Ukraine to anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Florida, companies are increasingly speaking out on social issues. Wharton management professor Stephanie Creary explains why silence is no longer golden for firms.

    From Knowledge at Wharton