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  • Southern Life, Slavery and the Civil War

    The Penn Libraries has purchased Southern Life, Slavery and the Civil War, consisting largely of collections documenting laws and labor practices underpinning the slave system in the South before and during the Civil War, but including material related to the Civil War. Along with laws, legal cases, petitions and correspondence with Attorneys General, these collections include records of industrial operations based on slave labor, Confederate and Union records, and manuscripts documenting the families and busine

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →

  • New PennPraxis research illuminates ‘She-She-She Camps’

    As part of the New Deal of the 1930s, one program administered by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and championed by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt created a network of residential camps for unemployed women, where thousands found respite between 1933 and 1937. Over the summer, PennPraxis sponsored a design fellowship to research and document the camps, resulting in the first comprehensive inventory of known camp sites and a public website.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • How the pandemic disrupts breastfeeding experiences

    In a new case series report from the School of Nursing, researchers share common concerns and experiences as reported by three first-time, healthy mothers regarding the disruption of their birth plans and breastfeeding experiences.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Community immersion as distance learning

    Community immersion classes are central to teaching nursing students about social determinants of health. But what happens when on-site engagement is suspended due to a pandemic? To adhere to social distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 outbreak, the School of Nursing moved its “Addressing the Social Determinants of Health: Community Engagement Immersion” class from an in-person community health education course to a distance-learning experience.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Virtual trainings get Narcan into the hands of those who need it

    Twice over the past six months, the Chester County Hospital’s Opioid Use Disorder Task Force partnered with Chester County Drug and Alcohol Services and Good Fellowship Ambulance & EMS Training Institute to host a public Zoom presentation and discussion about opioids, overdoses, Narcan, and local treatment resources. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Will white noise cure your COVID insomnia?

    Increased stress and anxiety of the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating sleep issues. That’s why many people rely on the low, static buzz of a sleep sound machine or smartphone application when they can’t sleep. White noise is not only purported to mask disruptive noises, but also to be a non-pharmacological approach for promoting sleep and improving its quality.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Nader Engheta awarded Isaac Newton Medal and Prize

    The H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering, Bioengineering and Materials Science and Engineering has been awarded the 2020 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics, the professional body and scholarly society for physics in the UK and Ireland.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • New program to focus on serving vulnerable populations

    Penn Dental Medicine has plans to launch an innovative postdoctoral training program in general dentistry designed to educate dental residents in primary dental care for vulnerable and underserved patients. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Penn Engineering and CHOP Researchers receive $6 million grant to make AI more resilient to attacks

    A team of researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) have been awarded a five-year, $6 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative grant with their proposal, “Robust Concept Learning and Lifelong Adaptation Against Adversarial Attacks,” which will leverage insights from human cognitive development to make artificial intelligence systems better at protecting themselves from malicious disruptions.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • Researchers show potential to predict whether pain will be acute or persistent

    How an individual will experience a painful incident comes down to the complex, variable connections formed between several different parts of the brain, which had previously been unpredictable. A team of Penn researchers has shown a way to make such predictions about brain connections from the pattern of neural connections that begin to take shape soon after the first onset of pain. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →