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  • Avisi Technologies, winner of the President’s Innovation Prize and Y-Prize, takes home $1M NSF grant

    In 2017, Brandon Kao of Penn Engineering, and Rui Jing Jiang and Adarsh Battu of the Wharton School, devised a way to use a nanoscale material in the treatment of a form of glaucoma. Their implant idea, VisiPlate, and subsequent company, Avisi Technologies, earned the trio the 2016-2017 Y-Prize, the 2018 President’s Innovation Prize, and a home base at the Pennovation Center.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • Fourteen activities for building literacy at home

    With many young children spending more time at home due to COVID-19, Penn GSE Reading/Writing/Literacy doctoral student Daris McInnis offers these 14 activities that will help parents build these literacy skills with their children and have fun in the process.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →

  • Informing decisions in liver cancer: Use biology to better characterize the disease

    Cancer researchers have developed a novel method to identify validated biomarkers that can characterize the biological features of an individual’s cancer and inform therapeutic decisions. 

    FULL STORY AT Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics →

  • The exceptional—and virtual—incoming medical student Class of 2020

    Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the start of the academic year for the Class of 2020’s 155 students broke a record as the first virtual kickoff for Penn medical students. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Joe Subotnik named American Physical Society Fellow

    The chemistry professor has been recognized for pioneering advances in understanding the nature of nonadiabatic processes and merging electronic structure with chemical dynamics.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • CHIBE assists state with COVID Alert PA app

    Penn’s Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) is assisting the Pennsylvania Department of Health with COVID Alert PA, a free app designed to help reduce the spread of COVID-19.

    FULL STORY AT Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics →

  • Penn to honor Peter Eisenman and GreenPlan Philadelphia

    The Stuart Weitzman School of Design has selected Peter Eisenman as the 2020 recipient of the Kanter Tritsch Medal for Excellence in Architecture and Environmental Design, and the City of Philadelphia as the 2020 recipient of the Witte-Sakamoto Family Medal in City and Regional Planning for GreenPlan Philadelphia.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • Oral health in the global push for universal health coverage

    In a recent World Health Organization Bulletin, Tim Wang, Manu Mathur, and Harald Schmidt, explore the perception of oral health as a nonessential health care service and its subsequent exclusion from conceptions of Universal Health Coverage around the world, and recommend incorporating oral diseases into global and national mainstream efforts to counter noncommunicable diseases.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Researchers develop more accurate surgery-risk predictor for patients with cirrhosis

    The new prediction model now takes into account the type of surgery and can help surgeons determine whether that procedure is safe for individual patients.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • AHA! Lab studies how daily moments impact long-term behavior

    The newly-formed Adolescence, Health, and Addiction (AHA!) Lab, led by Annenberg School assistant professor David Lydon-Staley, will investigate questions around substance use, emotion regulation, and curiosity, with a particular focus on adolescence. 

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →