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  • The Ilan Stavans Collection of Jewish Latin American History, Culture, and Literature

    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 →

  • Penn and UC Merced research reveals an unexpected mechanism behind friction for 2D materials

    A team of engineers and physicists from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Merced have now discovered a new mechanism that controls friction of two dimensional materials at the nanoscale.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • For Green New Deal Studio, students design a brighter future

    Designing a Green New Deal is an interdisciplinary studio led last semester by Billy Fleming, the Wilks Family Director of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at Weitzman. The course, a follow-up to a fall 2019 studio, is based on the tenets of the Green New Deal resolution introduced in Congress: decarbonizing the economy and investing in clean-energy jobs.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • Nicole Rust recognized by National Academy of Sciences

    The associate professor of psychology will receive a 2021 Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her achievement as an early-career researcher, and to further empirical research within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Exploring and creating collaborations in Colombia: A new environmental justice resource

    Kristina Lyons and Marilyn Howarth collaborated last semester on the course Transdisciplinary Environmental Humanities, which combined two languages across hemispheres to address issues of environmental justice throughout communities in Colombia

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Expert Voices 2021: What will be the ‘new normal’?

    The lates of installment of Expert Voices examines the role of cities in the future, and one theme that throughout is the belief that cities are essential. Even those who foresee smaller cities in the future are confident that cities aren’t going anywhere. In fact, they are necessary for a better future.  

    FULL STORY AT Penn IUR →

  • Franklin birthday celebration honors Kathleen Hall Jamieson with 2021 Franklin Founder Award

    The director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication was honored with the 2021 Franklin Founder Award during a virtual celebration of Benjamin Franklin’s 315th birthday.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • Penn Dental Medicine LGBTQ+ fund

    With a major gift from a Penn Dental Medicine alumnus, the School has established the LGBTQ+ Fund with the goal of identifying LGBTQ+ based biases in the dental profession and ways to dispel them.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Jennifer Wilcox contributes to Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer

    Wilcox has played a key role in the publication of a free, digital publication—Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer—to reach a broad audience in an effort to maximize the adoption of techniques to avoid carbon and actively remove it from the atmosphere

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • A journey from NICU baby to NICU nurse

    Chester County Hospital’s Victoria DiBerardino wanted to be neonatal intensive care (NICU) nurse as long as she can remember, as the NICU is part of her own birth story. She was born premature at the same hospital, and spent two weeks in the NICU unit. DiBerardino spent two years at Lancaster General’s Women and Babies Hospital before she could transfer to CCH, her beloved hometown hospital.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →