In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
A study by LDI Senior Fellows finds that, despite the cost of hiring better and more trained nurses, the outcomes far outweigh the cost in terms of patient mortality, avoidable complications, and readmissions.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
DeJean, Trustee Professor of French, was made a Fellow of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social sciences. DeJean’s expertise is in 17th- and 18th-century French literature, with an emphasis on women’s writing, the history of sexuality, the development of the novel, and material culture.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
Encouraging clinicians to treat patients’ pain with non-opioid options was linked to less opioid use and sensitivity in subsequent months for patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Richard Perry University Professor in Chemistry and in Materials Science and Engineering, has been awarded by Clarivate, the analytics company that operates the citation index Web of Science. Citation Laureate candidates are selected from the authors of the .01 percent of studies that have been cited more than 2,000 times, and such citation rates are often good leading indicators of future winners.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Estela Bensimon, Michelene Chi, and Joseph Krajcik are the recipients of one of the most prestigious prizes in education recognizes outstanding achievement in pre-K-12 education, higher education, and learning science research.
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Wharton’s Stephanie Creary speaks with Kwasi Mitchell from Deloitte Consulting LLP about how company leaders and employees can contribute to diversity initiatives.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
A group of top health services researchers from across Penn schools and centers are coming together in an initiative to foster and support new scientific inquiries aimed at finding solutions to the problems of institutional, structural, and interpersonal racism that impact health, including throughout the U.S. health care system.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands celebrate the life and enduring legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by highlighting three films that feature the Supreme Court Justice.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
Researchers from Penn Medicine have designed and developed a new targeted cell therapy approach to autoimmune diseases based on the learnings from chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, a technique that modifies patients’ own T cells to attack cancer cells.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Carmen Maria Machado has been named Abrams Artist-In-Residence in the Penn Arts & Sciences Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing. She is the author of the bestselling memoir “In the Dream House” and the award-winning short story collection “Her Body and Other Parties.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
