In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Michael Gottfried, a professor in the Educational Policy division at Penn GSE and J. Jacob Kirkse’s article, “Going to sleep and going to school: Linking bedtime to student absenteeism” sets out to explore three primary questions: whether a regular bedtime links to better attendance, whether the hour of bedtime matters, and whether school start time links to better attendance.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Cynthia Chude, the first Escarce-Kington Scholar in the new Wharton Health Care Management and Meharry Medical College Joined MD/PhD Program, has begun classes and also become an LDI Associate Fellow. Currently a third-year medical student at Meharry, Chude takes a leave of absence to pursue her five-year doctoral studies at the Wharton School.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
To further develop innovation ecosystems and share regional resources, the NSF has launched a network of five I-Corps Hubs, with Penn serving as a member of the Mid-Atlantic Hub.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
The LDI-Penn Medicine Research Laboratory is focused on investigating questions about health care delivery that support LDI’s national mission of advancing health care knowledge and are of interest to Penn Medicine’s operations and direction.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The three-year strategic partnership will serve as a prototype to optimize trauma care and expertise for military clinicians between and during deployments.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
