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  • American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices From The Inside

    The first installment of six prison newspapers is now available for reading by Penn students, faculty, and staff on the JSTOR platform. Presenting newspapers written and published by incarcerated people from within federal and state prisons nationwide, American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices From The Inside aims to offer a quarter-million page-images with searchable fulltext from more than 300 prison newspaper titles when completed.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →

  • $40 million Department of Energy grant funds collaborative research on solar technology

    The Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels has been awarded a Department of Energy grant focused on the production of fuels from sunlight. The $40 million grant, over five years, will accelerate fundamental research on solar technology in order to meet the increasing needs for clean and renewable energy sources.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • Two Penn research teams win NSF awards to pursue ‘the future of manufacturing’

    The Weitzman School of Design’s Masoud Akbarzadeh has used geometry-based structural optimization techniques to create human-scale structures out of concrete. He and his colleagues in Penn Engineering will mimic evolution’s approach toward minimizing the use of material while maximizing its performance as part of their NSF “Future Manufacturing” project.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • Allison Hoffman publishes Oxford Handbook chapter on inequitable access to health care in the U.S.

    In “The American Pathology of Inequitable Access to Medical Care,” University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Professor of Law Allison K. Hoffman maps out the complex picture of access to medical care in the U.S. and shows how “variable access illustrates, among other things, an American ambivalence about health solidarity.”

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • Inaugural Penn Vet New Bolton Center, MARS Equestrian™ research program to accelerate transformative advancements in equine musculoskeletal health

    Together with MARS Equestrian™, the School of Veterinary Medicine has launched a research program dedicated to advancing critical frontiers in equine health. At its core, the MARS Equestrian™ Early Career Investigator program is providing aspiring veterinary researchers with a multidimensional mentorship experience guided by a team of leading Penn Vet researchers and animal health experts from MARS Equestrian™ and the WALTHAM™ Equine Studies Group.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Vet →

  • Just hours of training triples doctor confidence in use of handheld ultrasound devices

    Recent advances in ultrasound technology has allowed for the development of ultra-portable handheld devices that are especially promising for uses such as monitoring heart failure and pneumonia in geriatric populations that have difficulties with mobility or remain entirely housebound.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Penn Medicine and Comcast/Independence Health’s Quil come together to provide patients with a ‘digital front door’

    The internationally recognized leaders in health care and connectivity will partner with Quil platform to customize and enhance care and patient education through video and digital communication.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Penn’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative partners with Walmart on research study to identify communications that encourage vaccinations

    The Behavior Change for Good Initiative at the Wharton School and School of Arts and Sciences has partnered with Walmart to conduct the largest-ever communication research study aimed at increasing flu vaccinations during the Fall 2020 flu season. The results of the study will be well-timed to assist with encouraging COVID-19 vaccinations.

    FULL STORY AT Wharton →

  • Six trends that will influence higher education in 2021

    Robert Zemsky, a leader in the field and a professor in Penn GSE’s Higher Education Division, spent the summer briefing university leaders, boards of trustees, system administrators, and policy makers on six trends that will influence higher education decision making in 2021.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →

  • Regional COVID-19 Response Dashboard analyzes more than $40M in giving

    Developed by the Center for High Impact Philanthropy and Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia (Philanthropy Network) with support from William Penn and Lenfest Foundations, the dashboard is one of the first efforts to collect grants data from numerous pooled giving funds and share it publicly, mapped against demographic and economic data.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →