In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
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 →
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.
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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.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
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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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.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
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.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
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.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
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.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
