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  • CiPD awards accelerating oral health innovations

    The inaugural CiPD-IBI Artificial Intelligence in Oral Health Innovation Award was presented at the CiPD Symposium in May. This year’s award recipients are Flavia Teles, at Penn Dental Medicine, and Shefali Setia Verma at the Perelman School of Medicine.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine

  • Surveys of hospital patients evolve to use email, phone and mail and even narratives

    With concerns remaining about measuring racism, LDI experts weigh in on how HCAHPS surveys can be improved.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • R. Lance Holbert named to lead Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics

    The communication scholar will direct LAIC at Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center’s widening efforts to bring civics education to diverse audiences.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center

  • The Penn Forum on Quantum Systems (FoQuS), QUIEST’s first inaugural symposium, hosts international experts in quantum research

    Established in June 2023, QUIEST hosted its first symposium, The Penn Forum on Quantum Systems (FoQuS), in May, which reached over 150 attendees learning more about the state-of-the-art quantum research happening around the world in industry and in national labs.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today

  • Equine behaviorist at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine honored with prestigious national impact award

    The National Association of Equine Affiliated Academics has named Sue McDonnell, adjunct professor of reproduction and behavior and head of the Equine Behavior Program at the School of Veterinary Medicine this year’s recipient of the 2024 Don Henneke Educational Impact Award.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Vet

  • Demarcus Jenkins to explore links between housing policies and school integration and desegregation

    The assistant professor of Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice will serve as co-principal investigator of a $442,340 grant from the American Institutes for Research Equity Initiative in the Behavioral Sciences.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice

  • Penn hosts College Horizons program for a third time, providing Native American students with college admissions insight

    Roughly 100 Native American high school students from 19 states representing 33 tribal nations, Alaska native villages and Hawaiian islands from across North America will be on Penn’s campus June 22-28 for College Horizons 2024.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Admissions

  • Early-career scientist from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine named 2024 Pew Biomedical Scholar

    Louise Moncla, an assistant professor of pathobiology at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine has been named a 2024 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Vet

  • Rare bone marrow cells revealed in new, comprehensive ‘atlas’

    A Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia team has detailed little-understood cells within bone marrow that contribute to the fight against leukemia and other conditions.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Cynthia Sung receives Army Early Career Award to make robots move like animals

    Looking to the design of muscle integration in the human spine, Penn Engineering’s Cynthia Sung is developing a robotic spine in her lab to advance the movement of soft robotics.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today