In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Aman Goyal, associate director of undergraduate student life, writes about creating a more inclusive work environment through the Wharton Intergroup Dialogue & Inclusion Team.
FULL STORY AT Wharton Stories →
This year’s winners are Richard Baraniuk, Doug and Lynn Fuchs, and Carol D. Lee. for their achievements in higher education, preK-12 education, and learning science.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
The CHIBE associate director and the Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Associate Professor of Health Policy and the rest of the 2021 scholar class will participate in a variety of activities over a 3-year term, including attending meetings, publishing NAM perspectives, and planning a leaders forum.
FULL STORY AT Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics →
The Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites at Weitzman and the Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science at Tuskegee University have each received $750,000 toward the Capacity Building for Sustainable Preservation of Civil Rights Heritage Places initiative. The objective for each school is to build capacity among Black-led institutions to reimagine, redesign, and redeploy historic preservation to address the needs of the historical places, organizations, and communities devoted to the legacy of civil rights.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Volunteer initiatives to create more green space for improved mental health in Philadelphia, and nutritional support for students participating in after-school sports, are among the 22 projects to receive Penn Medicine CAREs funding this quarter.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A team of nonprofit, academic, industry, and fact-checking organizations has received a 12-month, $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator to create a new platform to narrow the gap between research into misinformation and responses designed to curb it. The Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) and FactCheck.org are among the participants in the collaboration, called FACT CHAMP.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
IceBot was officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the first robot made from of ice, designed by Mark Yim, Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the ModLab, and ModLab grad student Devin Carroll.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Antonia Villarruel is set to receive the 2021 Health Care Leader Award from the American Academy of Nursing, which recognizes an influential national leader dedicated to improving the health of the nation through contributions to organizational excellence.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
The cyclotron is the centerpiece of the Penn Medicine | Virtua Health facility, which will provide a leading-edge form of cancer treatment starting in late 2022.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Weitzman School of Design is awarding MASS Design Group, the nonprofit firm based in Boston and Kigali, Rwanda, that got its start building hospitals, with the 2021 Kanter Tritsch Medal in Architecture, and the City of Minneapolis will receive the 2021 Witte-Sakamoto Family Medal in City and Regional Planning for Minneapolis 2040, a comprehensive plan to guide the city’s growth.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
