In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Penn Medicine CAREs Grant program supports faculty, students, and staff who volunteer in community-based programs outside of their jobs. This quarter, Penn Medicine CAREs awarded grants to 28 projects, many of which aim to fill vast needs in the community created by the COVID-19 pandemic, while others seek to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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According to SciCheck, scientists are monitoring COVID-19 vaccines’ effectiveness against the virus carefully, with updated or new vaccines a possibility in the future, if need be. Social media claims blaming vaccination for an impending variant “disaster” are hypothetical predictions that ignore life-saving benefits of the vaccines.
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This summer, the Libraries will continue to provide virtual support and access to physical and digital collections. Subject specialists are available to work with the Penn community through chat, email, phone, and web conferencing, and expanded services will offer more options for in-person browsing, research, and individual study.
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Joseph Francisco, President’s Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS). Election to APS honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields.
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An overactive genetic pathway in muscle stem cells was found to shorten the ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, resulting in DNA damage that impedes the normal healing response, according to a new study by researchers in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. The researchers believe this finding unveils the body’s origin point for the chronic muscle injuries associated with diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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Associate Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science Harun Küçük, a historian of early modern Ottoman science, will be assuming the leadership of the Center on July 1, 2021.
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For the past three years, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School students at the Toll Public Interest Center have have partnered with Troutman Pepper’s Pepper Center for Public Service to perform pro bono immigration work and address the scarcity of immigration lawyers currently in practice across the U.S. The pro bono immigration work encompasses all facets of the immigration process, from court proceedings to dealings with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and various social service agencies.
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Furthering efforts to understand why potentially life-saving statins are so under-prescribed among American patients with heart disease, a new study shows that clinicians are more likely to sign a script for them earlier in the day. Researchers in Penn Medicine’s Nudge Unit found that patients with the very first appointments of the day were most likely to have statins prescribed, and the odds progressively fell through the morning and remained low throughout the afternoon.
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More than two-thirds of pancreatic cancer patients harboring genetic mutations saw their tumor stop growing or shrink substantially after being switched from intensive chemotherapy to the PARP inhibitor rucaparib as a maintenance therapy, researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center reported online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Perry World House has selected 33 undergraduate students for its 2021-22 World House Student Fellows program. The student fellows represent all four of Penn’s undergraduate schools, sharing a keen interest in global affairs.
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