In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
On Monday, August 31st, English for Career Development, an ELP MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), reached over 1 million learners since its inception in 2016.
FULL STORY AT Penn ELP →
Penn Engineering, Penn Arts & Sciences and the Wharton School will partner with an interdisciplinary team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in a project known as Transferable, Hierarchical, Expressive, Optimal, Robust, and Interpretable NETworks (THEORINET). The collaboration will receive $10 million over five years.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Penn Dental Medicine is among the 23 state-wide awardees from the administration of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolff to advance coronavirus research. The award to the lab of Henry Daniell is part of $10 million in grant funding through the state’s COVID-19 Vaccines, Treatments and Therapies program to support the rapid advancement of vaccines, treatments, and therapies.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
“Freedom of Assembly: National Socialist Party v. Skokie” explores the history of this First Amendment right through the lens of the landmark 1977 U.S. Supreme Court case about a planned march by neo-Nazis in the significantly Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois. The film is one of the free, nonpartisan resources offered to educators, students, and families in time for Constitution Day, Sept. 17.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
The Rita Allen Foundation awarded the honors, which celebrate four early-career leaders in the biomedical sciences whose research holds exceptional promise for revealing new pathways to understand and treat chronic pain.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
The American Society of Landscape Architects 2020 Professional and Student Award winners include three projects by Weitzman students and three projects by Weitzman faculty. Work from the studio Designing a New Green Deal received an Award of Excellence, while two studios that focus on Guatemala and the Lehigh Valley received Honor Awards.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
All six Penn Medicine hospitals recognized by the Human Rights Campaign for promoting equitable and inclusive care for LGBTQ patients and their families.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Cardiology has long been a male-dominated field, with women making up less than 20% of the board-certified cardiologists in the U.S. Nosheen Reza, an instructor in cardiovascular medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, has made it her mission to tackle these disparities and increase the representation of women in the field. In 2017, Reza launched Penn Women in Cardiology. Her goal was to break down the barriers that women have been facing nationally in the field by connecting them together as a supportive force.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Penn scientists and engineers are joining a multi-institution team of researchers to bring new knowledge to the field known as mechanochemistry. The team has been awarded a $1.8 million grant to establish the NSF Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry, one of three new Phase I Centers for Chemical Innovation funded through the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
A Penn study finds that toxic proteins from mutated genes stimulate TDP-43 clumping, which can result in diseases like Lou Gehrig’s disease. Researchers also show that treatment with a pipeline drug known as an antisense oligonucleotide reduces the levels of such clumps, and the neurodegeneration that goes along with it.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
