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Three Penn Researchers Awarded 2016 Sloan Fellowships

Three Penn Researchers Awarded 2016 Sloan Fellowships

Three University of Pennsylvania faculty members are among recipients of this year’s Sloan Research Fellowship, two from Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, one from Penn’s 

Karen Kreeger , Michele W. Berger

A Voyage of Discovery for Freshmen at Penn

A Voyage of Discovery for Freshmen at Penn

Ian Petrie is not a maritime historian. And none of the 12 students who enrolled in his freshmen seminar had substantive experience with handwritten 19th-century manuscripts.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Raising Age of Majority Doesn’t Affect Teen Crime Rates, Penn Research Shows

Raising Age of Majority Doesn’t Affect Teen Crime Rates, Penn Research Shows

In the criminal justice world, there’s an ongoing debate about whether to increase the age of majority, the point at which an adolescent can no longer be tried in the juvenile legal system and instead must be tried as an adult.

Michele W. Berger

Penn Study: Machine Learning at Arraignments Can Cut Repeat Domestic Violence

Penn Study: Machine Learning at Arraignments Can Cut Repeat Domestic Violence

In one large metropolitan area, arraignment decisions made with the assistance of machine learning cut new domestic violence incidents by half, leading to more than 1,000 fewer such post-arraignment arrests annually, according to new findings from the University of Pennsylvania.

Michele W. Berger

7th Annual Penn Public Policy Challenge Finals

7th Annual Penn Public Policy Challenge Finals

WHO &  WHAT:          The Public Policy Challenge invites students from across the University of Pennsylvania to develop a policy proposal based on an issue that affects Philadelphia, such as education, public health, homelessness, recidivism and others.
Penn Senior and Alumna Awarded 2016 Gates Cambridge Scholarships

Penn Senior and Alumna Awarded 2016 Gates Cambridge Scholarships

A senior at the University of Pennsylvania and a Penn alumna have won 2016 Gates Cambridge Scholarships to pursue graduate degrees at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Jacquie Posey