In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Penn Anti-Cancer Engineering Center will study fundamental forces and associated challenges that determine how cancer grows and spreads, looking for mechanisms that could lead to new treatments or preventative therapies.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Three teams from the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Department of Architecture have been recognized by The American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) with 2021 student honor awards. Their design proposals address water scarcity at a major port city in China, the relationship between rural locales and bird habitat in Canada, and social inequity in the capital of Ecuador.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Led by Maria A. Oquendo and Gregory K. Brown, the INSPIRE center brings together psychiatry, implementation science, health economics, machine learning, and other interdisciplinary research experts to apply innovative approaches to suicide prevention.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Muybridge was recruited by Penn in 1884 for a project using emerging motion picture technology to understand human and animal locomotion. He partnered with Francis Dercum, then chief of HUP’s Dispensary for Nervous Diseases, to study how neurological conditions impacted the movements of neurology patients. This year, Geoffrey Noble, a former neurology resident in the Perelman School of Medicine, found the original clinical records for nine of Muybridge and Dercum’s photographic subjects.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Penn Libraries has acquired a sizable number of Sanskrit series over the years, and one of its vendors was able to locate and purchase more than 150 old and rare Sanskrit volumes that were missing from the series holdings.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
In addition to archiving the website, Annenberg will house the writer and activist’s podcasts, video, and related personal memorabilia.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
Gibney is an algebraic geometer who has obtained deep results about moduli spaces of complex curves and vertex operator algebras, and Krashen’s research in algebra and arithmetic geometry includes the study of division algebras, quadratic forms, local-global principles, moduli stacks, and derived categories. The Presidential Professorships are five-year term chairs, awarded by Penn President Amy Gutmann to outstanding scholars.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
In recent weeks, China’s central bank stated that all cryptocurrency-related activities were illegal. But it would be “dangerous” to assume that the decline and volatility in cryptocurrency prices are a result of China’s ban, according to Kevin Werbach, Wharton professor of legal studies and business ethics.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Readlee, a platform that uses artificial intelligence to improve academic outcomes by listening to students read, won the grand prize at the 12th anniversary Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition. HomeWorks Trenton, a community-based, after-school residential program that provides academic and social-emotional enrichment activities while empowering marginalized high school girls in their community, won the American Public University System Prize.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Co-founded by associate professor of medicine Saar Gill, Interius is developing new ways to engineer cells inside the human body, and aims to transform cell and gene therapy through direct patient administration of genetic medicines to generate therapeutic immune and blood cells.
FULL STORY AT Pennovation Works →
