Also, Penn Medicine signed onto new artificial intelligence commitments.
Thursday, March 14
Good morning, Penn.
I'm Ben, and I'll be your guest anchor today. On this Pi Day, the team behind DP Daybreak hopes that all of you are looking radian — which is particularly likely as we enter our second consecutive 70 degree day on campus.
Penn's Civic House announced the appointment of a new executive director, and Penn researchers received a grant for a program aiming to train the next generation of learning health system scientists.
But first, newly released documents related to Mackenzie Fierceton's lawsuit against Penn shed additional light on the circumstances surrounding her allegations.
It has been over two years since Fierceton — a former Rhodes Scholar, 2021 School of Social Policy & Practice graduate and 2020 College graduate — sued Penn for allegedly discrediting details about her upbringing and unjustly withholding her master's degree over questions about her status as a first-generation, low-income student and survivor of abuse.
Now, excerpts of the depositions of Penn administrators at the center of the lawsuit were recently made public. They reveal a disputed characterization of Deputy Provost Beth Winkelstein's questioning of Fierceton, competing definitions of FGLI students, and new details about Penn's correspondence with the Rhodes Trust.
Penn researchers were awarded a $5 million grant to unite scientific experts from Penn’s schools, long-standing community partners, and Accelerate Health Equity — a Philadelphia initiative addressing health equity and racism.
Carrie Hutnick — a former director of community-engaged learning and scholarship at Drexel — was appointed executive director of the Civic House.
Nine Penn seniors and recent graduates received the 2024 Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
Penn men's and women's basketball earned several honors in the Ivy League's postseason awards.
TODAY IN DP HISTORY
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In 2012, the DP reported that Passion Pit would open the 2012 Spring Fling concert — with students expressing mixed opinions on the selection and on Penn's online announcement of the opener. While Penn has not yet announced any of the artists who will perform at this year's Spring Fling, Lauv headlined the concert's 2023 edition.
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