In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy has awarded the Carnot Prize to Jacqueline Patterson, founder and executive director of The Chisholm Legacy Project, a resource hub for Black frontline climate justice leadership.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
The U.S. National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence-driven RNA Foundry, led by the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Puerto Rico and supported by an $18-million, six-year grant, will run a “BioFoundry” to create molecules and nanoparticles.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering →
The Miriam Stirl Endowed Term Chair in Nutrition in the Department of Family and Community Health will receive the 2024 National League for Nursing’s Isabel Hampton Robb Award for Outstanding Leadership in Clinical Practice.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Victor Pickard, co-director of the Media, Inequality, and Change Center (MIC) at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication, has been awarded $200,000 by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) is the new name for the department known since 2005 as the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC).
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
The inaugural recipients of the CiPD-IBI Artificial Intelligence in Oral Health Innovation Award are Flavia Teles, associate professor in the Department of Basic & Translational Sciences at Penn Dental Medicine, and Shefali Setia Verma, assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Perelman School of Medicine.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
The renewed investment from Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy will support discovery science and advancement of new therapies at Penn.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The NIH and FDA have awarded $9.6 million to Annenberg School for Communication researchers to study health communication messaging about varying risks of tobacco products.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
A new plan from the Penn Wharton Budget Model projects account balances as high as $200,000 for more than 56 million low-income Americans.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Researchers at Penn Medicine and UC San Diego will develop a tau-targeting drug candidate through IND-enabling studies, a potential disease-modifying Alzheimer’s treatment for future clinical trials.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
