In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Benjamin L. Prosser will serve as the North American coordinator for a new, multi-institutional $6.5 million grant from the Leducq Foundation, aimed at better understanding the role the heart cell cytoskeleton plays in heart disease and finding new ways to treat it.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Briana Nichols, Jessica Peng, Chelsea Chamberlain, and Peter Francis Harvey were awarded the honor for their dissertations, which present fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, analysis, or practice of formal or informal education throughout the world.
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After teaching in schools and nonprofit literacy programs, and looking at new ways to serve marginalized communities, McInnis has been named a Tillman Scholar. He is the first Penn GSE student, and is believed to be the first Black Penn student, to receive the honor.
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Many tools available to reduce the risks and impacts of the virus are the same tools long advocated for by planning experts as a means to help protect cities from climate change, tackle systemic inequalities, and improve well-being. The Kleinman Center’s Oscar Serpell argues that these tools to be a key part of a COVID recovery plan.
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June 2020 marks the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and the 50th anniversary of the first official Gay Pride march in the United States. The Penn Libraries celebrates Pride Month with its latest medley of virtual resources, and also solicited electronic book and journal recommendations from the Penn LGBT Center—the second oldest university LGBT+ center in the United States.
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Two environmental designers discuss The 2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal, including what a future map of America, shaped by climate change and a Green New Deal, might look like, as climate change will alter where Americans live and work, and produce energy and food.
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The two are are members of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. They will each receive a scholarship of $15,000 as well as mentorship and assistance with their career development.
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As part of their work with the nudge unit they have launched in South Africa, CHIBE associate directors Harsha Thirumurthy and Alison Buttenheim, and project managers Laura Schmucker and Noora Marcus have developed several resources that provide guidance to low-and middle-income country governments and communities as they navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Paul J. Mather, a cardiologist and a professor of clinical medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine, has been awarded for advancing the AHA’s mission of building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular disease and stro
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Community members who are served by Chester County Hospital have been donating meals for hospital staff during the COVID-19 crisis.
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