In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Between August of 2020 and July of 2021, more than 180 design studios at 93 universities in 39 states and 10 countries responded to the Superstudio call to submit projects that could help decarbonize the U.S. economy while investing in jobs and social justic, along with dozens of professional firms and individual designers and scholars.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
The visiting scholar and Penn Artist in Residence was selected to exhibit her work at the “Creative Resilience: Art by Women in Science” exhibition sponsored by UNESCO at their headquarters in Paris.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
Mind DivE In (Diversity and Equity Initiative in the Mind Sciences) drew undergraduate students from institutions across the country for a weekend of in-person workshops and mentoring from faculty including Angela Duckworth.
FULL STORY AT OMNIA →
Cancer patients who are ineligible for clinical trials receive immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) at greater rates than patients who are trial eligible despite no survival benefit, according to a new study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, which suggests that the positive results for phase 3 clinical trial participants receiving ICI treatment may not translate to patients who are ineligible for trials due to factors such as organ dysfunction.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
For the first time since the Law School’s Center on Professionalism initiated its First Generation Professionals Fellowship (FGP), each of the three JD classes in the Law School includes a cohort of FGP Fellows. Though the initial intention was to support six Fellows, the FGP Fellowship currently supports nine outstanding First Generation JD students.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
The COVID-19 Triage Tool at Penn Medicine categorized almost every patient into a safe classification and took burdens off clinicians during the height of the pandemic.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Travel in Greece was safer in the summer of 2020, thanks to a new approach to COVID-19 border screening developed by LDI Senior Fellow Hamsa Bastani and collaborators. Eva—a machine-learning system using up-to-date data on incoming travelers and their COVID-19 test results—helped Greece open for tourism while restricting entry of asymptomatic, infected travelers.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The Perelman School of Medicine’s Kiran Musunuru and Daniel Rader received honors for their contributions to cardiovascular research.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Penn Libraries’ Featured Books display in the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center offers novels, memoirs, histories, and poetry collections from a number of the 574 federally recognized Native American tribes.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
Wharton’s Michael Useem talks with Brett LoGiurato from Wharton School Press about the 10th anniversary edition of his book, “The Leader’s Checklist.”
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
