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An Alzheimer’s research pioneer, right here at Penn
Virginia Lee stands smiling in a lab surrounded by three colleagues

Virginia Man-Yee Lee leads a team of researchers at Penn’s Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, investigating the causes of disorders that occur more frequently with advancing age.

An Alzheimer’s research pioneer, right here at Penn

Virginia Man-Yee Lee, a professor and researcher at the Perelman School of Medicine, is the 2020 recipient of a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, earning $3 million for her innovative, inspiring work that could one day cure various neurodegenerative diseases.

Lauren Hertzler

Dorothy Roberts on prison abolition constitutionalism
Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts, the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights. (Image: Penn Law)

Dorothy Roberts on prison abolition constitutionalism

In “Abolition Constitutionalism,” the Penn Law professor argues that prison abolitionists can “reinvigorate abolition constitutionalism” by using the Reconstruction Amendments.

Penn Today Staff

Side Gigs for Good, part two
Person walks a black Labrador retriever puppy along a path from a parking lot

Heather Calvert, executive director of MindCORE, drops off her foster puppy Ugo at the School of Veterinary Medicine's Working Dog Center at Pennovation Works each weekday. She and her family care for the working-dog-in-training during evenings, weekends, and holidays. 

Side Gigs for Good, part two

In a second installment of Side Gigs for Good stories, meet four more Penn employees whose after-work endeavors go above and beyond.

Katherine Unger Baillie , Michele W. Berger

Revolving door politics: Can a U.S. president rejoin an international treaty?
torn piece of paper pieced back together and held together with adhesive tape.

Revolving door politics: Can a U.S. president rejoin an international treaty?

A new article by Penn Law Professor Jean Galbraith illuminates how and why future presidents can use their power to reenter the same international agreements the current president is withdrawing from, without returning to Congress for renewed advice and consent.

Penn Today Staff

Herman Beavers’ balancing act of creativity and educational innovation
Professor of English and Africana studies Herman Beavers seated in a chair in a university hallway.

Professor of English and Africana Studies Herman Beavers. (Image: Omnia magazine)

Herman Beavers’ balancing act of creativity and educational innovation

The professor of English and Africana studies is defined by his artistic curiosity and commitment to community building as a teacher and mentor.

Penn Today Staff

Three Penn faculty named 2019 AAAS Fellows
Carolyn Gibson, Sampath Kannan, Ellen Puré

Carolyn Gibson of the School of Dental Medicine, Sampath Kannan of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Ellen Puré of the School of Veterinary Medicine.

Three Penn faculty named 2019 AAAS Fellows

Three from Penn have been named to the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s newest class of Fellows: Carolyn Gibson of the School of Dental Medicine, Sampath Kannan of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Ellen Puré of the School of Veterinary Medicine.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Working hand in hand with the nation’s largest integrated care system
A black-and-white image of health care professionals standing around a patient in a surgical suite during the Vietnam War.

Mary Ann Krisman Scott (back, facing forward) was a nurse during the Vietnam War. She is also a 2001 Ph.D. graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. (Image: Courtesy Bates Center Archives, University of Pennsylvania) 

Working hand in hand with the nation’s largest integrated care system

In a unique partnership, Penn Nursing collaborates with the Veterans Health Administration on a range of issues, from pain management to end-of-life care.

Michele W. Berger