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  • Penn Nursing’s Bridgette M. Brawner awarded The International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses’ Diversity and Equity Award

    The Diversity and Equity award recognizes an ISPN member who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in providing culturally-sensitive mental health services. Brawner has conducted extensive research into the factors influencing HIV and AIDS among Black residents of Philadelphia, and focuses on how mental health conditions, such as depression in Black youth, correlate with unhealthy behaviors. In her clinical work, she partners with behavioral health providers on interventions for adolescents with mental illness and works with youth affected by HIV/AIDS. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Penn launches region’s first interdisciplinary center focused on treating nerve disorders

    The Penn Nerve Center combines experts in neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgery, plastic surgery, and physical therapy to offer expert diagnosis and treatment for a range of nerve conditions including traumatic nerve injuries, nerve entrapment, nerve compression, and nerve tumors. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • 2021 CAREER Award recipient: Nikolai Matni

    The assistant professor in electrical and systems engineering is one of Penn Engineering’s most recent recipients of the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, 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 →

  • Penn Medicine researcher awarded $1 million to expand COVID-19 treatment discovery platform

    David C. Fajgenbaum, an assistant professor of translational medicine & human genetics, and director of the Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory at the Perelman School of Medicine, was awarded $1 million by the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy to expand the scope of the COvid19 Registry of Off-label & New Agents (CORONA) project and build out his team to accelerate treatment identification for COVID-19.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Promoting gender equality and gender equity at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

    Despite the growing number of women entering the legal field, America’s law school faculty is still largely male. In recent years, the Law School has worked to reduce faculty gender disparity. As of 2020, 35% of Penn Law’s faculty are women—up from 22% just a few years ago. “The goal is to make it clear to everybody that promoting women’s advancement is an institutional priority and that we’re going to support projects and work on multiple fronts,” says dean and Bernard T. Segal Professor of Law Ted Ruger.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • 2021 Models of Excellence honors

    Penn’s Division of Human Resources has announced the 2021 honorees in four categories: Models of Excellence, Pillars of Excellence, Model Supervisor, and a special category, Sustaining Penn Through COVID-19. The awards go to staff members who show initiative, leadership, increased efficiency, and a deep commitment to service.

    FULL STORY AT Almanac →

  • Has the pandemic set female leadership back?

    Wharton Dean Erika James joined Wharton professors Janice Bellace, Corrine Low, and Nancy Rothbard on March 22  for a livestreamed faculty discussion titled “Has the Pandemic Set Female Leadership Back?” The panelists said the labor statistics are alarming, and reflect the need for better policies around affordable, accessible child care, as women still bear the brunt of child-rearing despite their decades of advancement in the workplace.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Shelley L. Berger and M. Celeste Simon named 2021 Fellows of the AACR Academy

    Genetics researcher Shelley L. Berger and cellular biologist M. Celeste Simon have been named as members of the 2021 class of fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy, which recognizes and honors distinguished scientists whose major contributions have propelled significant innovation and progress against cancer.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Growing agricultural biotech startup, 2019 President’s Innovation Prize winners Strella Biotechnology expands to lab space at the new Pennovation Lab

    The Pennovation Lab’s newest tenant, Strella Biotechnology, is expanding its agricultural innovation within the Pennovation Works ecosystem. The Lab is designed for companies that have secured early-stage funding and have outgrown their incubator space. With this new lease, nearly one third of the building is already under agreement.

    FULL STORY AT Pennovation Works →

  • Brenda Casper elected a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America

    The professor of biology and chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, has been elected a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, which recognizes the many ways in which its members contribute to ecological research and discovery, communication, education and pedagogy, and management and policy.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →