‘Nudging’ both patients and providers boosts flu vaccine numbers
A new study shows that when patients got text messages from their primary care practice, and the providers were nudged themselves to boost vaccination numbers, rates jumped.
Did AI take your job? Or was your employer ‘AI-washing’?
Pater Cappelli of the Wharton School says, “Companies are saying that ‘we’re anticipating that we’re going to introduce A.I. that will take over these jobs.’ But it hasn’t happened yet. So that’s one reason to be skeptical.”
Dagmawi Woubshet (right), Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Associate Professor of English, says “we try to teach our students how to think critically and historically, but also with fidelity to the art object.”
The Penn Arts & Sciences course Literature and Medicine begins with Apollo and the Hippocratic Oath and extends through the 21st century with poetry, novels, videography, historical texts, and guest lecturers from the Perelman School of Medicine and beyond.
PennSTAR delivers critical care in the air, across the region
PennSTAR’s flight crews and Metro Aviation pilots combine rigorous training, redundant safety, and a proprietary instrument approach to move the sickest patients quickly to the right Penn Medicine care.
A roundup of the latest appointments and awards for various faculty members in the Graduate School of Education, the School of Arts & Sciences, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
The Office of Ethnic and Religious Interests (Title VI), one year in
From resolving discrimination concerns to launching a new nondiscrimination and anti-harassment training module, the Title VI-supporting office marks a year of progress.
Jennifer Reid of the Perelman School of Medicine talks about guilt and her new book, “Guilt Free: Reclaiming Your Life From Unreasonable Expectations.”
Katrin Hinrichs, chair of the Department of Clinical Studies–New Bolton Center and head of the Penn Equine Assisted Reproduction Laboratory (PEARL) and Matheus Felix, PEARL’s chief embryologist, work together in the lab. Felix is also an author in the 2025 study report on IVF with frozen-thawed stallion sperm.
