In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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 →
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 →
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 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 →
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 →
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 →
The associate professor in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics is one of the ten winners in the Engineering and Technology category, presenting his research on a type of light-powered flight known as photophoretic levitation.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
