Saanvi Ram

Her responsibilities will include leading Penn Nursing’s global strategy and advancing the center’s educational mission.

The program will combine coursework with a required team-based capstone project and opportunities for internships or industry experiences.

This year’s cohort consists of 16 students from across the country who will each receive a scholarship to support them as they pursue their MPN at Penn.

In an email sent to the Nursing School community, Penn President Larry Jameson and Provost John Jackson Jr. announced that they will ask the University Board of Trustees to approve Villarruel’s extension through June 30, 2028.

The project, called Reproducible Brain Charts, is led by Perelman School of Medicine psychiatry professor Theodore Satterthwaite, postdoctoral fellow Golio Shafiei, and Child Mind Institute chief science officer Michael Milham.

The Oct. 29 event was co-sponsored by Penn’s creative writing program.

What may feel like a minor schedule change can affect sleep, mood, concentration, and even physical health, according to the director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine.

Supported by the National Governors Association, the project seeks to help determine policy outcomes surrounding restricting phone use. 

The Sept. 30 event — part of Penn Hillel’s Jackie Reses Speaker Series — spotlighted Dillon’s career as an example of an individual who competes at the highest level “while balancing” their Jewish identity.