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The newly-elected members are Gerd A. Blobel, co-director of Penn's Epigenetics Institute; Enrique Schisterman, chair and Perelman Professor of biostatistics, epidemiology, and informatics; and Katalin Susztak, professor of nephrology and genetics and director of the Kidney Innovation Center at Penn and CHOP.

Fourth-year wide receiver Jared Richardson was tabbed Ivy Offensive Player of the Week for the second week in a row, in Penn’s 35-21 victory at Columbia on Oct. 18.

Earlier in October, Perry World House hosted the “Climate Cooperation in Transition” workshop with the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research’s Global Governance Innovation project, which featured a stocktake of the progress made on climate since the Paris Agreement.

The $401 million project will expand access to advanced health care for patients and families in Central New Jersey and beyond. The Penn Medicine Princeton Cancer Center is scheduled to open in May 2028.

A gift from the family of Penn physicist Arthur Goodspeed represents the beginning of a revolution in medicine that began at Penn.

Criminology researchers Aaron Chalfin and John MacDonald, and data scientist Brian Wade of Penn’s Crime and Justice Policy Lab, evaluate the effect of improved street lighting on crime rates.

Penn Nursing researchers and collaborators found that caregivers for family members with dementia who receive one or two consultations saw improvements in their ability to manage stress, and that people requesting more than one call reported lower baseline confidence in their ability to manage their emotions than those requesting only one call.

Wharton professor of business economics and public policy Judd Kessler explores whether rewording organ donor questions at the DMV can meaningfully increase registration rates.

Robert H. Vonderheide, director of Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center, has been honored with the 2025 Jill Rose Award for Scientific Excellence from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the foundation’s highest scientific honor.

The postdoctoral research fellow in Penn Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research has been selected as one of this year’s STAT Wunderkinds, a national recognition that highlights standout early-career researchers who are not yet independent scientists but are already making extraordinary contributions to biomedical science.