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Neurobowl reimagines how the next generation of neurologists is trained
Sashank Prasad and Raymond Price.

Sashank Prasad (left), chief of Neurology at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and Raymond Price, chief of Neurology at Pennsylvania Hospital.

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Neurobowl reimagines how the next generation of neurologists is trained

Sashank Prasad and Raymond Price have collaborated for years on an online quiz-show to teach uncommon neurological conditions for Penn Medicine students, and have introduced the program to other institutions as well.

From Penn Medicine News

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Wharton graduates first Global Executive MBA cohort
Snapshots of Wharton students across the country and the world.

(Clockwise from top left) Sona Sundaramurthy with her husband, Anantha Puthucode (right), and Andrzej Biesiekirski (left) in Panama City; Alfonso L. Corcuera (left) and Biesiekirski in Seoul; Edmond Chan (right) at a Philadelphia social gathering; Corcuera and wife Maria Fernanda Iniestra in San Francisco; Sundaramurthy harvests cassava in Bangkok; executive MBA students in Berlin.

(Image: Courtesy of Wharton Magazine)

Wharton graduates first Global Executive MBA cohort

Members of Wharton’s first Global Executive MBA cohort reflect on their academic journeys and the opportunities the program’s hybrid design unlocked for them.

Meghan Laska

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‘Scattered Earth, Sounded Depth’
Eissa Attar and Alvin Luong standing in art gallery with arms around each other's shoulders

Artworks by the two master of fine arts students graduating in the Class of 2025, Eissa Attar (left) and Alvin Luong, are in a thesis exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery through a new collaboration with the Weitzman School of Design. 

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‘Scattered Earth, Sounded Depth’

A new thesis exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery features works by graduating Master of Fine Arts students Eissa Attar, from Saudi Arabia, and Alvin Luong, from Canada. On view through May 30,  “Scattered Earth, Sounded Depth,” was curated by Emily Zimmerman.

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Graduates are ready to serve and engage at home and abroad
A Penn Med student putting a pin in a map on Match Day 2025.

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Graduates are ready to serve and engage at home and abroad

Members of Penn’s 269th graduating class will channel their expertise and passions to serve and work in Philadelphia and around the world, from teaching to research, poultry farming, and basketball.

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For dual architecture degree candidate Kelvin Vu, design begins with the body
Kelvin Vu performing a dance move.

Image: Kait Privitera

For dual architecture degree candidate Kelvin Vu, design begins with the body

Master of architecture and master of landscape architecture candidate Kelvin Vu, who was a professional dancer before coming to Weitzman, says “dance and landscape design are about change, flux, and dynamism.”

From the Weitzman School of Design

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Collaborating with southern Black grandmothers to reimagine scholarship
Staci L. Jones.

Image: Kyle Cassidy/Annenberg School for Communication

Collaborating with southern Black grandmothers to reimagine scholarship

For an Annenberg School for Communication dissertation, Staci L. Jones and four grandmother co-authors introduce the Kitchen Scholar Framework. Their work embraces knowledge that goes beyond academia.

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Soon-to-be-graduate hopes to deliver primary care to rural communities
Chip Chambers stands on college campus.

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Soon-to-be-graduate hopes to deliver primary care to rural communities

Fueled by his faith, Chip Chambers, a fifth-year M.D./M.B.A. student in the Perelman School of Medicine and Wharton School, has always looked for ways to serve.“My faith is a huge motivator of everything that I do. I just believe that I’ve been blessed with a lot of things that I didn’t earn and that I have a responsibility to steward those for the good of other people and not for myself,” Chambers says.

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Philosopher in residence
William Reason sitting on a bench outside.

From Milton, Massachusetts, Reason is teaching Philadelphia public high school students an ethics curriculum he designed as a Philosopher in Residence.

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Philosopher in residence

William Reason, who earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy in December and will complete his master’s in May, teaches ethics to Philadelphia public high school students via an ethics curriculum he designed as a Philosopher in Residence

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