In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
A mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Church of Christian Compassion will provide 500 doses of COVID-19 to registrants from across the local faith community.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Sixteen teams of first-year graduate architecture students spent the last week and a half in January designing carnival floats for a 52nd Street celebration of Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the emancipation of American slaves on June 19, 1865. For the remainder of the studio, the students will focus on developing a market for the 52nd Street El station, incorporating the carnival theme.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Inflammation in the blood could serve as a new biomarker to help identify patients with advanced pancreatic cancer who won’t respond to the immune-stimulating drugs known as CD40 agonists.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy was selected for the Outstanding Young Researcher Award (Macronix Prize) by the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers. The award is given annually to one to two physicists and/or astronomers of Chinese ethnicity working in North America, Europe, or other regions outside Asia, to encourage and recognize contributions in physics or astronomy.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
Penn Libraries celebrates Black History Month with a dive deep into the history of African American life, and the varied contributions of Black Americans to culture, art, politics, activism, scholarship, and more.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
A paper in JAMA Internal Medicine examines regulatory frameworks of drug pricing in six countries with diverse financing, delivery, and reimbursement systems, ranging from socialized medicine to markets with competing private insurers and providers. The researchers found that these countries have nearly universal health insurance, covering more than 99% of their population, and none have the monopolistic pricing and marketing exclusivity found in the U.S.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Richard James has held the position of Nursing Liaison Librarian at the Biomedical Library for the last four years, but recently his efforts have been directed toward helping nurses and other medical professionals meet the extraordinary demands of global health crises. These efforts include an ongoing collaboration with the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health and the delivery of a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) developed by the World Health Organization
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
The report, by Dana Dyer and Magali Duque, explores the ways in which themes including bias, representation, and allyship affect Black women in the legal field through the data collected from a survey of 30 Black Penn Law students, of which 24 identify as women and 6 identify as men.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
The annual MLK Community Involvement Awards emphasized our common humanity and acknowledged individuals whose active service exemplifies Dr. King’s vision, with student performances, remarks from President Amy Gutmann, Provost Wendell Pritchett and Penn student leaders.
FULL STORY AT The Office of the Chaplain →
Penn’s Judaica Collections announce the acquisition of the largest private assemblage of its kind. The Stavans collection includes manuscripts, incunabula, rare books, special and signed editions, dictionaries, plays, posters, maps, photographs, letters, videos, radio, TV, music, and other material connected with the Jewish communities of Latin America from the colonial period to the present.
FULL STORY AT Herbert D. Katz Center →
