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These LA community college students are getting paid to go to school. Here’s how

Researchers at the School of Social Policy & Practice found that giving Santa Fe community college students $400 a month for one year led to positive outcomes, with remarks from Amy Castro.

Innovative program jointly launched by Independence Blue Cross and Penn Medicine accelerates access to outpatient scans

A joint program from Independence Blue Cross (IBX) and Penn Medicine gets patients on the path to care and a diagnosis faster and to save both providers and IBX time on prior authorization requests for outpatient scans (such as, CT, PET, and nuclear medicine scans, MRI and echocardiograms). Launched in 2023, the success of the program has driven IBX to expand the program to other network providers.

New rules for methadone doses at home did not increase overdoses

LDI senior fellows have studied the impact of the federal policy change for patients to access take-home doses and recommend that policymakers at both the state and federal levels should support the continued expansion of flexible take-home methadone policies, citing the benefits of patient autonomy and the evidence that take-home doses did not increase methadone-involved overdose deaths overall.

Sweeping GOP budget bill illuminates the central fault line in the modern Republican coalition

The Penn Wharton Budget Model predicts that the least affluent families would lose more money from spending cuts than they would gain from tax savings in the proposed federal budget.

The universities already offering AI degrees, from Penn to Rice University

Penn is the first Ivy League school to offer an undergraduate degree in AI, through the School of Engineering and Applied Science. PIK Professor Robert Ghrist is quoted.

Philadelphia deserves transit investment, not just survival

Ph.D. student Jay Arzu in the Weitzman School of Design pens an opinion piece on SEPTA and Philadelphia.

46 celebrities who returned to school after making it big in Hollywood

Actor Noah Schnapp discusses his decision to get “the real experience” of attending Penn.

Heat dome blankets large swathe of the U.S.

Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that large-scale wave patterns and heat domes are becoming more common each summer due to climate change.

A teacher pointing ot a whiteboard in a high school classroom.

Penn GSE launches Algebra 1 fellowship to strengthen math teaching in Philadelphia schools

With funding from the Neubauer Family Foundation, the program’s creation is in direct response to the School District of Philadelphia’s call for targeted support in Algebra 1 instruction.

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Assistant Professor of History Sarah Gronningsater teaching Hamilton’s America to Penn students.

Creating a classroom democracy

Through a Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia course, assistant professor of history Sarah Gronningsater and her students resuscitate early American history.