12/6

Adam Sacarny

Exterior of the Colonial Penn Center.

The Leonard David Institute invites Adam Sacarny, an assistant professor at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, to talk about how hospital mergers change or fail to change hospital behavior, performance, and outcomes.

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk

12/6

Celebration of Innovation 2022

Singh Center for Nanotechnology interior.

The Penn Center for Innovation celebrates Penn researchers and innovators who were named as inventors on patents issued to Penn this past fiscal year.

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Singh Center for Nanotechnology, 3205 Walnut St.

12/8

Encoding Race

Exterior of the Perry World House.

The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy features a panel discussion about racism that is both embedded in social institutions and encoded into algorithms, which in turn reinforce each other and must be addressed simultaneously.

4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Perry World House, 3803 Locust Walk

12/8

Joseph W. Westphal

Joseph W. Westphal.

The Public Policy in Practice Series, led by Fels Distinguished Fellow Elizabeth Vale, features Ambassador Joseph W. Westphal, Global Senior Fellow at the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at the Wharton School.

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Virtual

Meredith Mann

(Left) Molly Gray and Dan Napoleon in hospital gowns at HUP; right: Molly Gray and Dan Napoleon standing on a soccer field sideline.

An unexpected tale of friendship amid paired organ donation

Molly Gray and Dan Napoleon are just two of a growing number donors and recipients who are increasing access to live organ transfers for minority community members.

Meredith Mann ・October 18, 2022

A group of doctors looking at an x-ray in a children’s hospital in Botswana.

A success story from Southern Africa

The Botswana-UPenn Partnership celebrates 20 years of medical, scholarly, and educational progress.

Meredith Mann ・August 15, 2022