Low effort, high reward: How making choices easy pays off in clinical trials Low effort, high reward: How making choices easy pays off in clinical trials When researchers get highly favorable results, it’s imperative to capitalize on them. Applying the lessons learned to future work can expand the positive impact achieved.
A better approach to Integrated Student Support Penn GSE assistant professor A. Brooks Bowden. (Image: Penn GSE) A better approach to Integrated Student Support Penn GSE’s A. Brooks Bowden joined a working group of experts to draft a new set of national guidelines for Integrated Student Support.
Educating community-oriented biologists Reginald Kwarteng is an undergraduate student researcher in the Wagner Lab. (Image: Wil Prall) Educating community-oriented biologists Mecky Pohlschröder of the School of Arts & Sciences reflects on an SNF Paideia course that connects research conducted in the STEM field to the broader community, allowing students to observe the influences of their work outside of the lab.
Who, What, Why: Annenberg doctoral student Ava Irysa Kikut Ava Kikut, a 2020-22 Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellow, focuses on health communication. Who, What, Why Who, What, Why: Annenberg doctoral student Ava Irysa Kikut Through a Netter Center ABCS course, Kikut worked with high school students and Penn undergrads to develop media messages that speak to the health needs and inequalities pertinent to adolescent Philadelphians.
How Penn’s School of Medicine supports students starting families How Penn’s School of Medicine supports students starting families Juggling parenthood and studying is a lot easier with the formal support structures that the Perelman School of Medicine offers.
How the Medical Laboratory Science Program impacts patient care Alison Steinmiller enrolled into the MLS program in her final year at the University of the Sciences. (Image: Penn Medicine News) How the Medical Laboratory Science Program impacts patient care Penn Medicine’s outreach program ensures that patients and physicians can rely on the best-trained medical laboratory scientists is the goal.
Video experiment brokers peace among ex-FARC combatants and locals in Colombia An image from the intervention video shown to promote peace between everyday Colombians and ex-FARC members (Image: Pirata Films) Video experiment brokers peace among ex-FARC combatants and locals in Colombia A new study from the Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab explores the impact of media interventions on brokering peace among former members of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and non-FARC Colombians.
Debate as social empowerment Members of the Penn Debate Society discuss notes during their round against the Bard Prison Initiative Debate Union at Eastern New York Correctional Facility in April. (Image: Courtesy of Karen Pearson/BPI) Debate as social empowerment From debating a team in an upstate New York prison to helping the formerly incarcerated in Philadelphia, the Penn Debate Society sees debate as a tool to help others help themselves
New gift brings design education to underserved youth Design to Thrive gathers students ages 13 to 18 four days a week for an intensive design and making studio, where PennPraxis Design Fellows teach design skills and approaches, including welding with blowtorches, creating ceramic molds for porcelain bells, and building a precise topographic model. (Image: Gaja Papa for The Fresh Air Fund.) New gift brings design education to underserved youth Lori Kanter Tritsch and William P. Lauder, University of Pennsylvania Trustee, have created a new program for PennPraxis, the practice arm of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design at Penn.
Penn Supplier Diversity Forum & Expo returns for an in-person event The expo brought together more than 30 local and diverse suppliers showcasing their services among Penn’s community of buyers in the lobby of the Annenberg Center. Penn Supplier Diversity Forum & Expo returns for an in-person event This year’s event featured dozens of local and diverse suppliers and showcased the economic impact of Penn’s buying power.