In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
In an opinion piece, Eric Orts describes the attack by federal park police on citizens who were assembled peacefully in protest in Lafayette Square as a significant event impacting democracy in this country as a whole.
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Once a resource for caregivers and their loved ones to receive in-home respite care and engagement, Time Out Respite Care, an ongoing collaboration between Temple University and Penn, is pivoting to an online pilot program called Time Out Weekly Smile, to bring relief to Philadelphia-area caregivers.
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For the work its done to integrate patient genomic data into electronic medical records in a way that’s usable for both researchers and clinicians, Penn Medicine was recognized by the Association of American Medical Colleges with this year’s Group on Information Resources Excellence Award.
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Howard F. Chang, Earle Hepburn Professor of Law, and Sarah Paoletti, Practice Professor of Law and director, Transnational Legal Clinic, discuss the ruling on DACA, calling the original decision to terminate DACA was “arbitrary and capricious,” and that prior case law does not prevent the executive branch from exercising its prosecutorial discretion to shield unauthorized immigrants from removal.
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The goal of this award is to support the research passion of the awarded women and inspire career paths in their respective fields. As a recipient, Sung will receive $150,000 in funding and three years of mentorship from Johnson & Johnson to support her research.
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Catherine Lee, the recipient of the Resident Recognition Award, was honored based on her commitment to patient care, education, research, and community service.
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The grant will be distributed over the next five years, from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a renewal of its P30 Environmental Health Sciences Core Center grant.
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Benjamin L. Prosser will serve as the North American coordinator for a new, multi-institutional $6.5 million grant from the Leducq Foundation, aimed at better understanding the role the heart cell cytoskeleton plays in heart disease and finding new ways to treat it.
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Briana Nichols, Jessica Peng, Chelsea Chamberlain, and Peter Francis Harvey were awarded the honor for their dissertations, which present fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, analysis, or practice of formal or informal education throughout the world.
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After teaching in schools and nonprofit literacy programs, and looking at new ways to serve marginalized communities, McInnis has been named a Tillman Scholar. He is the first Penn GSE student, and is believed to be the first Black Penn student, to receive the honor.
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