In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The $1.5 million gift, from Hyder Ahmad and Faisal S. Al Shoaibi, endows a Presidential Professorship in Penn Arts & Sciences with a preference for a scholar focused on data science. The professorship is named in honor of their mothers.
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Cross-Campus Picks is a series offers book, music, and film recommendations to accompany exhibits and events taking place across Penn. Its recent recommendation is at the Institute of Contemporary Art, which reopened its doors to the public for an exhibition on the work of Milford Graves, presented by Ars Nova Workshop.
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Two researchers with The Singh Center for Nanotechnology, one of 16 National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) member sites, have won the NNCI’s annual image contest. Each entry submitted is made using highly specialized microscopes available at NNCI sites, depicting complex structures that are no bigger than a red blood cell, as well as useful patterns with features only a few atoms across.
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The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society has named the assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering a winner of their Frontiers of Materials Award. Jariwala is an expert in nano- and atomic-scale devices that could have applications in information technology and renewable energy.
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Penn researchers say prone positioning, a technique shown to improve outcomes in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, may not be used as frequently as needed, and more time spent explaining its value to clinical staff could help.
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Perry World House and Foreign Affairs Magazine have announced the winners of their Emerging Scholars Global Policy Prize, which promotes and publishes scholars dedicated to making new academic research on significant global issues accessible to policymakers.
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The Optical Society cited Agarwal for “pioneering contributions to advancing complex light-matter interactions in low-dimensional semiconductors, phase-change and topological materials for applications in integrated photonics.”
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Made by the Annenberg School for Communication, “Emile” is a film that charts a year in the life of Emile Bruneau, neuroscientist and founder of the Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab at Penn, as he embraces a brain cancer diagnosis with surprising positivity and works to accelerate the timeline of his scientific mission: to use the tools of neuroscience and psychology to bring peace to groups of people who are in conflict
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Led by Wharton Asia Exchange with support from Wharton Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Group, Wharton China Association, and Wharton Korean Undergraduate Business Society, student organizations teamed up with the Wharton Undergraduate Division to organize, “Being Asian in the U.S.”, a forum for students to share their experiences and offer support for their peers.
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With a $17.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health, researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine will collaborate with 11 research centers to determine more precise diagnostic biomarkers and drug targets for the disease.
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