In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The McHarg Fellowship is a new $75,000 award given by The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology to an emerging voice in landscape architecture and its related fields. The Fellowship will be awarded competitively on an annual basis and the fellow is expected to be in residence at Weitzman full-time for one academic year from August through May.
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Penn Nursing’s Center for Global Women’s Health has been awarded a $30,000 grant through It’s On Us PA, a statewide campaign that aims to end sexual assault by bringing together college and university presidents, superintendents, administrators, teachers, students, families, and community members to reframe the conversation around sexual violence and pledge to be part of the solution.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Penn GSE Dean Pam Grossman was recently named Vice President of the National Academy of Education, an organization dedicated to advancing high-quality education research and evidence-based policy. Additionally, two Penn GSE Professors—Howard Stevenson and Nancy Hornberger—were inducted into the Academy in November.
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The Stephen J. Angello Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering and Materials conducts research into the chemical and physical properties of nanostructured materials, and integrating materials with optical, electrical, magnetic, mechanical, and thermal properties to create multifunctional devices.
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Penn Health-Tech’s Nemirovsky Engineering and Medicine Opportunity (NEMO) Prize awards $80,000 to support early-stage ideas joining engineering and medicine. This year, the NEMO Prize has been awarded to a team of researchers from Penn Engineering’s Department of Bioengineering, with a project that aims to develop a technology that can detect multiple cancer biomarkers in single cells from tumor biopsy samples.
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According to a new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine, Penn Medicine’s automated text-messaging service to manage COVID-19 patients reduced mortality among patients with COVID-19, likely by getting them to the emergency department more often and earlier.
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According to a new study published in BMJ Open, proposed state legislation in Illinois would significantly improve nurse staffing in hospitals and likely save thousands of lives. The cost of improving nurse staffing could be offset by cost savings achieved by the impact of better nurse staffing on shorter length of hospital stays.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Sydney Freeman Jr. is a Full Professor in the College of Education, Health & Human Sciences at the University of Idaho. He is an international authority on such topics as higher education leadership, higher education programs and leadership/administration, and graduate education. As a visiting scholar, Freeman will assist with an assessment of racial diversity initiatives for Penn faculty that are currently supported by Penn’s Provost’s Office.
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Steppingstone Scholars’ new partnership with the Wharton Global Youth Program will offer socioeconomically underserved students in Philadelphia a pathway to college and business education.
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Five faculty members and alums of the Department of Architecture were honored last month by the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Institute of Architects with a 2021 Architectural Excellence Award. Among the firms from across Pennsylvania recognized for excellence in design, contributions to the profession of architecture, and commitment to the quality of the built environment were Erdy McHenry Architecture, ISA, DIGSAU, and KieranTimberlake, which are led by instructors or graduates of the Weitzman School.
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