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Roy Hamilton encourages tough conversations with grace and compassion
Roy Hamilton.

Roy H. Hamilton, vice dean for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity.

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Roy Hamilton encourages tough conversations with grace and compassion

Hamilton, Penn Medicine’s new vice dean for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity, is dedicating his third decade at the Perelman School of Medicine to making academia a safe, supportive space for students and colleagues alike.

Meredith Mann

Building solutions for brain disorders
Flavia Vitale holding a vial with a gloved hand.

Flavia Vitale is an associate professor in bioengineering in Penn Engineering and in neurology in Penn Medicine.

(Image: Melissa Pappas)

Building solutions for brain disorders

Penn Engineering’s Flavia Vitale’s work developing devices that help people living with brain disorders has earned her a CAREER award, which will support her lab’s research in materials and devices that interface with different chemical and electrical signals inside the brain.

Melissa Pappas

Catalyzing reform in health care payment
A medical professional and a patient looking at a computer screen.

Image: iStock/SeventyFour

Catalyzing reform in health care payment

Penn’s Parity Center engages an interdisciplinary team of experts to collaborate with health insurers, health systems, physician practices and policymakers. Deputy director Austin S. Kilaru describes the Center’s mission, success, and future.

From the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics

Venezuela’s disputed election and unrest
A crowd of people protesting the election in Venezuela.

Government supporters rally in defense of President Nicolas Maduro’s reelection in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 30, 2024, two days after the disputed presidential election.

(Image: AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

  • Q&A

    • Venezuela’s disputed election and unrest

    Ángel Alvarado, a senior fellow in the Department of Economics and former Venezuelan congressman, shares his thoughts on the power struggle and ongoing crisis. 

    Kristen de Groot

    Sound research as a lens to understanding the world
    Illustration of a person wearing headphones with swirling whales and birds surrounding them.

    Image: Maggie Chiang for OMNIA

    Sound research as a lens to understanding the world

    Researchers across Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences are turning to sound for new answers to questions on subjects from birdsong to the benefits of music exposure.

    Laura Dattaro

    Shedding light on cellular metabolism to fight disease
    Yihui Shen.

    Yihui Shen is the J. Peter and Geri Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in Bioengineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn Engineering Today)

    Shedding light on cellular metabolism to fight disease

    In Yihui Shen’s lab, the assistant professor of innovation in bioengineering, aims to advance the understanding of metabolism and open doors to new cancer treatments and therapies.

    From Penn Engineering Today