The hiring comes after a national search to fill the spot left by previous PVP Director Jessica Mertz, who left Penn in May.

The event was structured as a political debate between Bush, who argued that the United States should implement a merit-based system, and three Penn students assigned to argue in opposition.

A group of 20 student protesters stood in the back and silently held signs that read “Deport Fascism,” “No one is illegal on stolen land,” and “Multiculturalism is America.”

The researchers found that patients with higher bloodstream concentrations of cfDNA had a shorter "progression-free survival" than patients with less cfDNA. 

Gutmann and Jonathan Moreno discussed their new book “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America.”

Statistics professor James Johndrow and his wife, statistician Kristian Lum,  have written a paper providing a probabilistic notion of algorithm bias as well as a method for removing this bias. 

She claimed to be receiving treatment at the Abraham Cancer Center at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

300 volunteers from Wells Fargo and the nonprofits City Year Philadelphia and Ameri Core came to beautify the school on Oct. 23, CBS Philly reported.

The obesity rate for children ages 10 to 17 in Pennsylvania was 17.4 percent, more than two points above the national average of 15.3 percent.

Hahn spent 18 years as a Penn professor, where he specialized in treating lung cancer and sarcoma with radiation oncology. 

The study found that acetate, a product of alcohol breakdown in the liver, travels up to the brain's learning centers to affect how mouse models respond to alcohol in the environment. 

The study, published in Nature, found that a protein called adenine nucleotide translocator is needed to remove damaged mitochondria from the body in a process called mitophagy.  

The grant will be used to support a clinical trial aimed at preventing the recurrence of triple-negative breast cancer.

The Penn-led team of global researchers looked at phytoliths, or plant skeletons, and the environmental effects of burning them.  

Both SHS and CAPS were previously overseen by the Vice Provost for University Life.

Carey Law Dean of Students Felicia Lin, along with three other administrators, held an hour-and-a-half lunch Q&A session on Monday for any law students concerned about the school's renaming. 

The event featured 1994 Wharton graduate Jeff Smith, Chair of Papa John’s International Inc; and Janet Foutty, Chair of the Board of Deloitte.