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  • Featured Books: Women’s History Month

    In celebration of Women’s History Month, Penn librarians put together a selection of books, films, and audio recordings available through the Penn Libraries.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →

  • West Philadelphia clinic aims to vaccinate 1,500 residents against COVID-19

    The third clinic led by Mercy Philadelphia, Penn Medicine, and local faith community leaders will be held on Saturday, March 6, and will bring the total community vaccinations to 2,800.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Three million COVID-19 vaccinations per day would add 2 million jobs

    The Penn Wharton Budget Model projects that in addition to adding 2 million jobs, the additional daily vaccines would increase real GDP by 1%. Doubling the pace of vaccination would prevent a total 2 million COVID-19 cases in 2021.

    FULL STORY AT Wharton →

  • Ensuring frontier philanthropy makes a lasting impact

    Penn GSE Professor of Practice Sharon Ravitch, postdoctoral fellow Reima Shakeir, and Gul Rukh Rahman of the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, released case studies of eight successful family philanthropies operating in the Global South.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →

  • Cultivating a supportive space for breast cancer patients

    The impact of pandemic isolation can be especially profound for cancer patients who previously found a sense of community in support groups. This past fall, the Abramson Cancer Center at Pennsylvania Hospital partnered with the nonprofit Sisters R Us Circle of Survivors to foster these crucial personal connections through a virtual breast cancer symposium.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Climate stories in translation

    PPEH public research intern and climate storyteller Tsemone Ogbemi considers how climate stories and the art of translation overlap.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Program in Environmental Humanities →

  • PennIDEAS: Innovation and discovery in engineering, arts & sciences

    In February 2021, faculty experts examined the promise and perils of big data and technological innovations that may lead to sustainable energy.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Financial incentives for hospitals boost rapid changes to opioid use disorder treatment

    New research from Penn Medicine finds that offering financial incentives to hospitals has the potential to drive swift systemic and practical changes to intervene in the opioid epidemic.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Weitzman faculty named 2021 AIA Fellows

    The American Institute of Architecture awarded 102 of members admission into the College of Fellows for 2021, the highest level of membership and honor within AIA. Three are Weitzman faculty members and eight are alums.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • Penn Nursing’s third annual Story Slam

    On February 17, nurses from Penn Nursing and Penn Medicine shared their true, personal stories for Penn Nursing’s third annual Story Slam event. Due to the current guidelines and restrictions around the pandemic, the event was held virtually, but that did not lessen the impact or vibrancy of the storytellers and their tales, developed around the theme, “Stepping Up.”

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →