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Speaker Cheryl Rice talks self-esteem at Nursing World Kindness Day event
Rice engaged in an interactive discussion with attendees to figure out strategies for improving self-esteem and learning to value oneself and others.
Woman hit by car between 40th and 41st and Spruce streets
Police announced to bystanders at the scene that the woman was taken to the Penn Presbyterian Hospital. Penn Police and the Penn Medical Emergency Response Team responded to the scene.
NEC amends UA resolution to demand Penn bar Amy Wax from teaching instead of firing her
Some student government leaders said the change made their demands more tangible, acknowledging that Wax's tenured status made her firing unrealistic.
Penn to rename BBB major 'neuroscience' starting this summer
Current BBB students said the name change is a welcome shift that will make their major more easily explainable to the wider public.
Penn changes course after claiming Civil Rights Act doesn't apply to transgender people
The lawyers' latest arguments were filed on Wednesday in court proceedings for a lawsuit submitted on July 2.
Photo Essay | Penn First Plus hosts inaugural celebration for first-gen, low-income students
The celebration helped to foster more inclusion, support, and recognition of FGLI students.
Penn offers cultural centers a space in ARCH's upper floors — but 6B is hesitant
Moving La Casa Latina, Makuu, and the Pan-Asian American Community House out of the ARCH basement has been a longstanding goal of the 6B.
Penn early decision applications drop 14% from last year
For the 2019 early decision deadline, Penn received 6,088 applications, while 2018 saw 7,109 applications.
U. appoints Malik Washington as new Penn Violence Prevention director
The hiring comes after a national search to fill the spot left by previous PVP Director Jessica Mertz, who left Penn in May.
Jeb Bush tackles immigration in a public debate with three Penn students Tuesday
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.
Despite security concerns, Dinesh D'Souza speaks with only silent protesters in sight
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.”
Penn Med study uses blood test to predict prognosis in brain cancer
The researchers found that patients with higher bloodstream concentrations of cfDNA had a shorter "progression-free survival" than patients with less cfDNA.
At book talk, President Gutmann calls America's health care system an “ethical mess”
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.”
Wharton professor publishes research on removing bias from algorithms
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.
Pa. woman fakes cancer treatment at HUP, scams $10,000 from GoFundMe and Facebook
She claimed to be receiving treatment at the Abraham Cancer Center at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
West Philadelphia elementary school revitalized in Wells Fargo Day of Caring
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.
Pennsylvania youth have the ninth highest obesity rate in the country
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.
Former Penn Medicine professor nominated to lead FDA
Hahn spent 18 years as a Penn professor, where he specialized in treating lung cancer and sarcoma with radiation oncology.
Penn Medicine study identifies an enzyme crucial in alcohol abuse
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.