Shepherd is the first United Kingdom recipient of the 2008 Stockholm Criminology Prize, described by The New York Times as "the equivalent of a Nobel prize." He was awarded a 2010 Queen's Anniversary Prize for excellence in higher education.
His work as a surgeon led him to study violence prevention. His discoveries resulted in a prototype U.K. crime-reduction partnership, which he continues to chair and which was used as a model in the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act.
The Penn Criminology Department graduation ceremony is one of many school and departmental graduation-related events scheduled to be held the weekend before the University’s 257th Commencement, Monday, May 13.
Nanoparticle blueprints reveal path to smarter medicines
New research involving Penn Engineering shows detailed variation in lipid nanoparticle size, shape, and internal structure, and finds that such factors correlate with how well they deliver therapeutic cargo to a particular destination.
A generous gift from alumni Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman brings the work of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa to the University of Pennsylvania. The latest addition to the Penn Art Collection expands Philadelphia's public art.
A massive chunk of ice, a new laser, and new information on sea-level rise
For nearly a decade, Leigh Stearns and collaborators aimed a laser scanner system at Greenland’s Helheim Glacier. Their long-running survey reveals that Helheim’s massive calving events don’t behave the way scientists once thought, reframing how ice loss contributes to sea-level rise.
