In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Black Music City project announced that it is distributing a total of $48,000 to 23 Black creatives in the greater Philadelphia area to produce new artistic works inspired by Philadelphia’s rich Black music history. Black Music City is a collaboration between Philadelphia public music radio stations WXPN-FM and WRTI-FM and REC Philly.
FULL STORY AT Almanac →
Joan I. Gluch, chief of Penn Dental Medicine’s Division of Community Oral Health, has been honored by the Pennsylvania Dental Association (PDA) for her public service to the community as the 2021 recipient of the PDA Public Service Award. The award recognizes her commitment to underserved communities through her insightful innovations to improve their oral health.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
The show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “New Grit: Art & Philly Now,” focuses on local artists and their relationship to the city, the exhibition will feature work by 25 artists, including Sharon Hayes, David Hartt, and Ken Lum.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Rachel Farmer, a unit clerk in Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital’s Trauma Neurosurgical Unit, fights on the front lines of COVID-19. Often called “Reverend Rachel” by her colleagues, Farmer aims to bring comfort and levity to an incredibly stressful time for patients, their families, and her colleagues.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The crisis of substandard and counterfeit medicines in sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to cause 116,000 extra deaths per year due to malaria alone. In the The Business School Alliance for Health Management global case competition, Vanessa Folkerts and Jason Chen teamed up with students from the Strathmore Business School in Kenya to create a data-based solution to this crisis.
FULL STORY AT Wharton Stories →
In a novel effort to combat COVID-19 misinformation, a group of women researchers, including nurse scientists from the School of Nursing, launched the Dear Pandemic social media campaign in March 2020 to deliver comprehensive and timely information about the COVID-19 pandemic in a question-and-answer format.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
The philanthropic foundation will grant each fellow $200,000 to fund significant research and writing in the social sciences and humanities that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
The Wharton senior will join the International Court of Justice Judicial Fellows Programme for 2021-2022. The competitive, highly selective program was established to provide recent law graduates the opportunity to gain experience working as a clerk at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
The Stephenson Term Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, has received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, which is given to early-career faculty researchers who demonstrate the potential to be role models for research and education and are committed to outreach and public engagement.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
The inaugural Figure Skating Prize, aimed at Black artists, curators and contemporary art scholars who are advancing equity and racial justice within the arts, has been awarded to Meg Onli, the Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
FULL STORY AT Art Newspaper →
