In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Environmental Justice Hub will launch in May 2021, with the goal to gather and organize curricular resources for environmental justice education at the secondary school and in higher education. Currently, collaborators are gathering for Working Wednesdays sessions to brainstorm project development.
FULL STORY AT Penn Program in Environmental Humanities →
FactCheck.org looks at the immigration statistics and facts behind the recent increase in illegal immigration at the southern border, and notably an increase in children traveling alone.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
Hakiem Ellison, a political science major minoring in urban education, has received a 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Involvement Recognition Award for his community service in West Philadelphia, where he grew up.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
Sharon Y. Irving, associate professor of pediatric nursing and vice-chair of Penn Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health, has been named a 2021 Fellow of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN). ASPEN Fellows are outstanding leaders in nutrition support, consistently contributing in education, practice, research and service to the field. A Fellow of ASPEN designation is the highest honor available to members.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
The Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences in the Department of Psychology was awarded the Howard Crosby Warren Medal for her foundational cognitive neuroscientific work on face and object recognition, visual attention, mental imagery, and semantic memory and recent work investigating the influence of early life experience on neurocognitive development.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice has launched a new website, www.convictionreview.net, to help prosecutors in conviction review units, as well as innocence organization lawyers, navigate the issues involved in investigating and resolving wrongful convictions. The site provides materials and templates, a wide variety of information regarding best practices, and guidance for working with victims and surviving victims’ families.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
The assistant Professor of Psychology, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for her work combining approaches in neuroscience, psychology, and education to predict and improve science learning in early elementary school students.
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Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine used machine learning-aided analysis to uncover top positive and negative themes in patient Yelp reviews of substance use treatment facilities. The researchers found that professionalism and staff dedication to patients were two of the top qualities that could be attributed to either a negative or positive review of the facility.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
In a new study from the School of Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, researchers evaluated the association between the nurse work environment and readmission and length of stay for close to 200,000 hospitalized adult ischemic stroke patients in more than 500 hospitals. They found that in hospitals with better nurse work environments, ischemic stroke patients experienced lower odds of 7‐ and 30‐day readmissions and lower lengths of stay.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Penn Libraries’ collections of Hindi films feature a range of popular and historically significant cinema that chronicles the growth of film culture in India, particularly the output of Bombay. It includes physical media, most of which are DVDs, as well as a growing collection of streaming video that includes films assigned in or used in courses at Penn.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
