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Practical tools to help you bring your conscience to work
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Wharton professor and author, G. Richard Shell, of "The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values. Advance Your Career." (Image: Harper Collins Leadership)

Practical tools to help you bring your conscience to work

A new book by Wharton professor G. Richard Shell serves as a guide to help you stand by your values and create a more ethical workplace.

Dee Patel

Veterans at Penn
Many small flags placed in the grass on College Green in front of College Hall.

(Homepage image) American flags dot the grass in front of College Hall.

Veterans at Penn

Jesse Hamilton, Jason Hartwig, and Greg Luttman are incorporating their military experience and varied perspectives into their research and work.

Kristen de Groot

A Black-owned radio station, a physician, and a quest to prevent colon cancer
A pair of hands holding a cancer screening kit vial in one hand and paperwork in another extended to a person standing in a park.

A FIT Kit comes in an envelope and includes instructions, a prepaid return mailing envelope, and a small tube to contain a probe that the user will insert into a stool sample to capture a tiny particle. In the lab, the small sample is tested for signs of blood in the stool, which may not be visible. (Image: Penn Medicine Service in Action)

A Black-owned radio station, a physician, and a quest to prevent colon cancer

A unique community-based campaign by Penn Medicine, WURD, Philadelphia’s Black-owned and -operated talk radio station, and other organizations provide free colon cancer testing kits and follow-up support to Philadelphia residents.

From Penn Medicine News

‘Encrypted’ peptides could be wellspring of natural antibiotics
Microscopic view of an amino acid chain.

‘Encrypted’ peptides could be wellspring of natural antibiotics

An interdisciplinary team of Penn researchers have used a carefully designed algorithm to discover a new suite of antimicrobial peptides, or naturally occurring antibiotics, in the human genome.

From Penn Engineering Today

‘Under Pressure: Essays on Urban Housing’ is released
Book cover for Under Pressure: Essays on Urban Housing, edited by Hina Jamelle.

‘Under Pressure: Essays on Urban Housing’ is released

The new publication, edited by Hina Jamelle, senior lecturer and director of urban housing in the Department of Architecture, gathers and contextualizes recent conversations on urban housing through a design lens.

From the Weitzman School of Design

New study illuminates the biology of common heart disorder
Gold-colored human heart model

New study illuminates the biology of common heart disorder

Dilated cardiomyopathy, an often fatal heart disorder, due to titin gene mutations involves both a shortage of good titin and a buildup of mutant, potentially “bad” titin.

Brandon Lausch

Penn at COP26: By the numbers
The midnight sun shines across sea ice.

The midnight sun shines across sea ice along the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. (Image: AP Photo/David Goldman)

Penn at COP26: By the numbers

A look at who is representing the University at this global conference, what they’re focused on, and how it fits into the bigger picture of worldwide climate action.

Michele W. Berger

Centering Black students in language education
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Flores was a co-organizer of a conference at Penn examining equity for Black students in language education. 

Centering Black students in language education

Ensuring equity for Black students in language education was the focus of a conference co-organized by the Graduate School of Education’s Nelson Flores, an expert in bilingual education.