In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
For this year’s Computer Science for Philly Week, Penn GSE’s Yasmin Kafai and her team designed CodeQuilt Philadelphia, a collaborative activity that allows students to take ownership of their own stories about coding.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
The album Catharge, with music composed by James Primosch, Dr. Robert Weiss Professor of Music, has received a Grammy nomination for Best Choral Performance. Carthage was recorded by The Crossing, with Donald Nally conducting.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
The lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and the Integrated Design Program has awarded for demonstrating a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health’s Women & Babies Hospital offers supportive services to parents after a stillbirth, which is defined in Pennsylvania as the loss of a baby at 16 weeks or later in a pregnancy, or a newborn death.
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The assistant professor in Penn Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering has been awarded for his research on microscopic robots, and will receive a three-year, $360,000 gift from the Army Research Office Young Investigator Program and a three-year, $450,000 gift from the Air Force’s Young Investigator Research Program.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Two teams of researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, each led by Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins, an associate professor of genetics and bioengineering have been awarded grants totaling $9 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as part of a major NIH Common Fund initiative to understand 3D-genomic interactions, which regulate the activity of genes during development and can cause disease when disrupted.
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The Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) announced last week that Emily Falk has been awarded its 2020 Early Career Award for her expertise in the science of behavior change.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
Wharton Latino and La Casa Latina joined the Wharton Undergraduate Division to organize and host the LatinX Student Forum, shortly after the conclusion of National Hispanic Heritage Month, an open conversation for students, staff, and faculty to come together and discuss the issues that have been particularly impactful for the Latinx student community, especially over the last year.
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Penn Dental Medicine and Spectrum Health Services, Inc. have established a partnership that is enhancing oral health care services for community members in West Philadelphia. Launched this summer, dental school faculty and students are now providing comprehensive dental care to patients within Spectrum Community Health Center.
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The Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation has launched the South Asian Gender and Sexuality Web Archive. With an emphasis on the websites of nongovernmental organizations, and on the resources generated by social justice activist groups and individuals, the Archive demonstrates how organizations approach goals of advocacy, education, and capacity building related to issues of gender and sexuality across South Asian regions.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
