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2025 Amy Gutmann Leadership Scholars

2025 Amy Gutmann Leadership Scholars

The endowed program, created from a $2 million gift to Penn Nursing by former Penn President Amy Gutmann and her husband Michael Doyle, provides financial aid to equip undergraduate and graduate nursing students with leadership tools and tactics to complement their education.

Unboxing a pioneer’s legacy

Unboxing a pioneer’s legacy

Jane Hinton, a 1949 graduate of Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine, came of age when opportunities for women in science and medicine were scarce—and for Black women, nearly nonexistent. Nevertheless, by the time she was 30, Hinton had already made an indelible mark in microbiology when she achieved a second, history-making milestone: graduating from Penn Vet as one of the first two Black women veterinarians in the U.S.

Penn Vet’s Wildlife Futures seek to unravel the mystery of the disappearing barn owl
Jennifer Grell holding a barn owl.

Penn Vet student Jennifer Grell is gaining wildlife field work experience with Penn Vet’s Wildlife Futures Program.

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Penn Vet’s Wildlife Futures seek to unravel the mystery of the disappearing barn owl

A multiyear study looks at the causes of declining populations, which will help inform conservation efforts in the future.

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A road map to reduce firearm harms by 2040
Six people stand on a set of parallel, converging arrows, illustrating the concept of collaboration or moving forward together.

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A road map to reduce firearm harms by 2040

Three Penn faculty members are among more than 40 experts to author a report addressing the persistent challenge of gun violence and proposing solutions stemming from a JAMA Summit convened last spring.

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What evolutionary and comparative immunology can teach about fish and human immune systems
Oriol Sunyer in his lab.

Penn Vet’s Oriol Sunyer points out rainbow trout, a fish species used in his research.

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What evolutionary and comparative immunology can teach about fish and human immune systems

Penn Vet’s J. Oriol Sunyer explores how studying the evolution of the immune system reveals surprising connections between fish and human immunity, and what these discoveries could mean for the development of new therapies for both fish and humans.

Martin Hackett

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Mapping the links between brain development and mental health
Sheet of a child’s brain scans.

A collaborative team led by Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Golia Shafiei, and Michael P. Milham has developed a large-scale, open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health.

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Mapping the links between brain development and mental health

A new large-scale, open data resource from the Perelman School of Medicine and collaborators helps researchers link brain development with mental health disorders.

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Six new organizations chosen for 76ers, Penn Medicine violence prevention program

Six new organizations chosen for 76ers, Penn Medicine violence prevention program

The Assists for Safe Communities program announced the second cohort of organizations that will receive a share of donations tied to the total number of assists 76ers players record in the 2025-26 season; for every pass that leads to a basket, Penn Medicine and the 76ers will donate $76.

Saving a family medicine residency program serving Delaware County

Saving a family medicine residency program serving Delaware County

The announcement of the planned closure of Crozer’s Family Medicine department, which serves a large population of low-income patients, prompted residents to fight to keep their patients and practice with a move to a new home at Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital.

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