In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
IceBot was officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the first robot made from of ice, designed by Mark Yim, Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the ModLab, and ModLab grad student Devin Carroll.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
A team of nonprofit, academic, industry, and fact-checking organizations has received a 12-month, $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator to create a new platform to narrow the gap between research into misinformation and responses designed to curb it. The Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) and FactCheck.org are among the participants in the collaboration, called FACT CHAMP.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
The cyclotron is the centerpiece of the Penn Medicine | Virtua Health facility, which will provide a leading-edge form of cancer treatment starting in late 2022.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Antonia Villarruel is set to receive the 2021 Health Care Leader Award from the American Academy of Nursing, which recognizes an influential national leader dedicated to improving the health of the nation through contributions to organizational excellence.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Wupatki National Monument and its sister Monuments, Walnut Canyon and Sunset Crater Volcano, are unique in North America for their exceptionally well-preserved archeological record, their geographical diversity, and their ancestral significance to Northern Arizona American Indian communities. All three monuments are units of the National Park Service, a longtime partner of Weitzman’s Center for Architectural Conservation.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
The Weitzman School of Design is awarding MASS Design Group, the nonprofit firm based in Boston and Kigali, Rwanda, that got its start building hospitals, with the 2021 Kanter Tritsch Medal in Architecture, and the City of Minneapolis will receive the 2021 Witte-Sakamoto Family Medal in City and Regional Planning for Minneapolis 2040, a comprehensive plan to guide the city’s growth.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
A popular class of diabetes medications called GLP-1R agonists may also protect against glaucoma in diabetic patients, according to a new study led by researchers in the Scheie Eye Institute at the Perelman School of Medicine.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Former Philadelphia mayor Michael A. Nutter and social entrepreneur Lisa Nutter are introducing initiatives to address economic inequality with a three-pronged approach.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
Perry World House’s Distinguished Global Leaders-in-Residence Program invites internationally-recognized dignitaries to Penn, including current or former heads of state, cabinet officials, and Nobel Prize winners.
FULL STORY AT Perry World House →
The National Institutes of Health has selected Penn Medicine as one of 25 award recipients across 30 sites in the United States to serve as Impact of Genomic Variation on Function investigators, with the goal of better understanding how genetic differences impact how human genes function, and how these variations influence human health and disease.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
