In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn’s Gene Therapy Program will use Discovery Labs’ suburban campus for a portion of its expanding research operations focused on the development of genetic medicines for rare and orphan diseases, as well as acquired and pandemic infectious diseases, such as COVID-19.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Penn Neuro COVID Clinic aims to assess and treat long-haul COVID patients suffering from neurological symptoms, focusing on patients who previously tested positive for COVID-19 and experience symptoms related to cognition, headache, vertigo, and brain fog.
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The Penn Libraries have acquired several digitized primary-source collections on British colonial Africa, Apartheid-era South Africa, and British missionary activities in African countries. These collections have been digitized from original sources by British Online Archives.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
The Advisory Committee on Race and Social Justice has announced the selection of “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson, as the One Book, One SP2 choice for 2021-2022. This book poignantly describes how the caste system originated, has been used in India, Nazi Germany, and the United States and still maintained today.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
Research from a Penn Medicine study finds that suppressing detectable hepatitis B infection with the use of antiretroviral therapy cut the risk of developing liver cancer by 58%. These findings suggest that the best care for individuals with HIV and detectable hepatitis B includes sustained hepatitis B suppression with antiretroviral therapy.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Launched in 2019, the Wildlife Futures Program is a science-based, wildlife health partnership with Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine serving to strengthen the resilience of the Commonwealth’s 480 species of wild birds and mammals. It was honored this spring, alongside the Pennsylvania Game Commission, which established the partnership, by The Northeast Wildlife Administrators Association of the Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.
FULL STORY AT Penn Vet →
PEG office of landscape + architecture, the firm of Karen M’Closkey and Keith VanDerSys, associate professor and senior lecturer in the Department of Landscape Architecture, received an honorable mention in the 2021 World Landscape Architecture Awards for their project, Fantasy Island: The Galápagos Archipelago.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Informed by the literary underrepresentation, the Penn Libraries is actively expanding its collection of children’s and young adult literature with the goal of privileging underrepresented voices, cultures, and perspectives.
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The Program offers full-tuition scholarships and specialized, rigorous academic programming for incoming students, with a preference for those graduating from historically black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions. The first cohort of three SP2 Social Justice Scholars are Gianni Morsell, Paloma Brand, and Skye Horbrook.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
The issue of which health care structures and practices might change as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic was the central theme of a panel of experts that was part of the two-day University of Pennsylvania 2021 Alumni Weekend.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
