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Seven Penn Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Medicine

Seven Penn Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Medicine

Seven University of Pennsylvania faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the nation’s highest honors in biomedicine. They are among 70 new U.S. and 10 international members of the globally renowned organization.

Karen Kreeger , Michele W. Berger

Four Pennsylvania Higher-ed Institutions to Launch ‘Foster Care to College’ Programs Backed by Field Center at Penn

Four Pennsylvania Higher-ed Institutions to Launch ‘Foster Care to College’ Programs Backed by Field Center at Penn

To help college-bound youth who have lived in foster care Cabrini University, Community College of Philadelphia, Temple University and West Chester University have partnered with the Field Center for Children

Jill DiSanto , Lori Iannella, Cabrini University , Rhonda Lipschutz, Community College of Philadelphia , Brandon Lausch , Nancy Santos Gainer, West Chester University

In New Role at Penn, a GSE Alum and Formerly Homeless Teen, Finds a Way to Support Vulnerable Youth Across Pennsylvania

In New Role at Penn, a GSE Alum and Formerly Homeless Teen, Finds a Way to Support Vulnerable Youth Across Pennsylvania

Seth Morones-Ramírez, an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, grew up in and out of the foster-care system. At times, he was homeless: staying in a motel, car, group home or shelter or sleeping on the couches of kind-hearted friends.
2017 Beitler Lecture Crisis in Criminal Justice Mass Incarceration and the Impact of DNA Science on the Phenomenon of Wrongful Convictions

2017 Beitler Lecture Crisis in Criminal Justice Mass Incarceration and the Impact of DNA Science on the Phenomenon of Wrongful Convictions

The Penn Libraries is pleased to announce that Penn Law’s David Rudovsky, one of the nation's leading civil rights and criminal defense attorneys will deliver the 2017 Beitler Distinguished Lecture, “Crisis in Criminal Justice: Mass Incarceration and the Impact of DNA Science on the Phenomenon

Sara Leavens

Penn Researchers Look to Cuba for Sustainability and Agroecology in Practice

Penn Researchers Look to Cuba for Sustainability and Agroecology in Practice

On many farms in the Cuban countryside, yellow flowers bookend certain crops, placed in such a way to concentrate insects there rather than on the produce growing in the rows between. Equipment-toting oxen and tractors are equally common sights, and combined with a self-sustaining water system, minimize the need to transport fuel across great distances.

Michele W. Berger , Ali Sundermier