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  • Penn Nursing’s Rebecca R.S. Clark named 2024 Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing

    Clark is an assistant professor of perinatal nursing, midwifery, and women’s health in the Department of Family and Community Health and a nurse scientist at Pennsylvania Hospital.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Annenberg Classroom film explores 8th Amendment ban on ‘cruel and unusual punishment’

    Produced in partnership with The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, “The Eighth Amendment: Cruel and Unusual Punishment” is among the over 65 free, nonpartisan short films available to educators, students, and families on Annenberg Classroom in advance of Constitution Day, Sept. 17.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center

  • Melding AI and RNA: $18M NSF AIRFoundry to revolutionize RNA research

    The U.S. National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence-driven RNA Foundry, led by the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Puerto Rico and supported by an $18-million, six-year grant, will run a “BioFoundry” to create molecules and nanoparticles. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering

  • Penn Nursing’s Sharon Y. Irving receives 2024 National League for Nursing Isabel Hampton Robb Award

    The Miriam Stirl Endowed Term Chair in Nutrition in the Department of Family and Community Health will receive the 2024 National League for Nursing’s Isabel Hampton Robb Award for Outstanding Leadership in Clinical Practice.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Energy justice leader to receive Carnot Prize

    The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy has awarded the Carnot Prize to Jacqueline Patterson, founder and executive director of The Chisholm Legacy Project, a resource hub for Black frontline climate justice leadership.

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center

  • MIC Center receives grants to study AI, big tech, and digital equity

    Victor Pickard, co-director of the Media, Inequality, and Change Center (MIC) at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication, has been awarded $200,000 by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication

  • New CiPD award advancing artificial intelligence in oral care

    The inaugural recipients of the CiPD-IBI Artificial Intelligence in Oral Health Innovation Award are Flavia Teles, associate professor in the Department of Basic & Translational Sciences at Penn Dental Medicine, and Shefali Setia Verma, assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Perelman School of Medicine.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine

  • Penn Medicine and Parker Institute renew alliance to continue advancing groundbreaking cancer immunotherapy research

    The renewed investment from Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy will support discovery science and advancement of new therapies at Penn.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • A major NIH grant will help researchers study messaging about risks of tobacco products

    The NIH and FDA have awarded $9.6 million to Annenberg School for Communication researchers to study health communication messaging about varying risks of tobacco products.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication

  • How low-income households can secure their retirement finances

    A new plan from the Penn Wharton Budget Model projects account balances as high as $200,000 for more than 56 million low-income Americans.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton