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  • Featured Books and DVDs: Black History Month

    From the first three young Black men who enrolled at Penn in 1879, to Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander’s historic achievement in becoming one of the first three African American women to earn a Ph.D. in the United States in 1921, to each year’s winners of the Makuu senior awards, Black excellence holds a strong legacy at Penn that continues today. In honor of Black History Month, this month’s display of featured books and DVDs offers options to explore stories from Black writers.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →

  • Michael Mitchell receives the 2022 SFB Young Investigator Award

    The Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in the Department of Bioengineering conducts research at the interface of biomaterials science, drug delivery, and cellular and molecular bioengineering to fundamentally understand and therapeutically target biological barriers. He is recognized by the Society for Biomaterials for his development of the first nanoparticle RNAi therapy to treat multiple myeloma, an incurable hematologic cancer that colonizes in bone marrow.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • How hospitals can harness the power of digital transformation

    Wharton’s Hummy Song talks about how hospitals can leverage technology in their operational decision-making.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Penn GSE’s Best Books for Young Readers 2021

    In choosing the Seventh Annual Best Books for Young Readers list, curators Rabani Garg and Sibylla Shekerdjiska-Benatova focus on authors and illustrators whose brought stories cover the histories and experiences of the many different communities to the fore in real, empathetic ways.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →

  • Confidence declines in CDC and Anthony Fauci

    According to January survey data from the Annenberg Public Policy Center, confidence that the CDC is providing the public with trustworthy information about the means of preventing and treating Covid-19 fell from 77% only two months ago, in November 2021, to 72% in January 2022.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • How sea level rise exposure is priced into municipal bonds

    Experts at Wharton have created a model that improves upon conventional approaches to understand how investors perceive the impact of climate risk on local economies. One important aspect of climate risk is sea level rise, and how it affects coastal communities. In their paper titled “Sea Level Rise Exposure and Municipal Bond Yields,” the experts use municipal bond prices as a proxy to estimate the impact of sea level rise risks.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Diversity in the Stacks: Kurdish Collections

    The Penn Libraries’ Kurdish collecting efforts build upon previous work from Middle East bibliographers as the Libraries seeks to ensure greater representation for the peoples and languages of Kurdistan.

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  • Regina Cunningham to receive 2022 Norma M. Lang Award for Scholarly Practice and Policy

    The chief executive officer at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Nursing assistant dean for clinical practice is awarded for her extensive scope of influence on practice and health policy that is evident by her national and local executive leadership.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Zachary Ives named a 2021 ACM Fellow

    The Adani President’s Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Computer and Information Science, has been named a 2021 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • A new way to profile T cells can aid in personalized immunotherapy

    Penn Engineers have developed a new technology which simultaneously provides information in four dimensions of T cell profiling. This technology, called TetTCR-SeqHD, is the first to provide detailed information about single T cells in a high-throughput manner, opening doors for personalized immune diagnostics and immunotherapy development.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →