Administrators will hold focus groups next semester to figure out how to improve housing options for grad students.
Four members have resigned from the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly executive board, prompting a special election to fill the empty positions on Wednesday evening.
The organization, called the Coalition Against Sexual Misconduct, began as an off-shoot of Graduate Employees Together – University of Pennsylvania, the graduate student advocacy group.
On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board proposed legislation that would overturn their 2016 ruling on Friday giving graduate student employees at private universities the federal right to unionize.
Patel has worked with multicultural and Asian-American groups since her time as an undergraduate, and says she will continue to connect with Penn students in her new role.
Penn's new Autoimmunity Center of Excellence is the fifth of its kind in the U.S., and will house two clinical trials as well as a collaborative project. The center will also host a mentoring program for scientists interested in autoimmune disease research.
Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center was awarded a $12 million grant to establish a new cancer research center.
The three professors hope to use this new opportunity with Autoimmune Disease Research Center to bring the bench work to clinical therapy.
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