For Women’s History Month, Holman Biotech Commons highlights the singing professor of Penn: Dr. Helen Conrad Davies (1925-2022), the first woman to receive a faculty appointment in the department of Microbiology. Davies […]

For Women’s History Month, Holman Biotech Commons will highlight Perelman School of Medicine’s first African American woman graduate, Dr. Arlene Bennett. Born in West Philadelphia Hospital of Women, Arlene Bennett assumed that […]

For International Women’s Day,  Holman Biotech Commons would like to recognize the University’s first medical librarian, Frances Roberts Houston. Frances Roberts Houston (1892-1970) was the University’s first medical librarian for Perelman’s School […]

Holman Biotech Commons highlights the life and accomplishments of Dr. Nathan Francis Mossell, M.D. (1856-1946), the first African American to earn a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania.Nathan Mossell was born […]

For Black History Month, we will highlight Dr. Virginia Alexander, an African American public health pioneer who addressed how segregation and discrimination affected African Americans’ health.             Dr. Virginia Alexander was born […]

For Black History Month, Holman Biotech Commons will highlight some prominent African American health professionals who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and associates with Philadelphia. Today, we will highlight, Dr. Helen […]