In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Sharmell Branch, a social worker at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, worked tirelessly to secure a two-month humanitarian aid visa for a mother in Guatemala to be with her dying son.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Penn Medicine’s Serious Illness Care Program teaches nurses and doctors how to have frank conversations with patients who have serious illnesses, not to map out specific treatment plans or advanced directives, but to focus on a patient’s personal end-of-life priorities and plans.
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Lisa Servon, the Kevin and Erica Penn Presidential Professor and Chair of City and Regional Planning at the Weitzman School, has been named research fellow at the Madison, Wisconsin-based Filene Research Institute, where she’ll lead the new Center of Excellence for Consumer Financial Lives in Transition.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Researchers identified a group of small molecules that ease repression of a specific gene, utrophin, in mouse muscle cells, allowing the body to produce more utrophin protein, which can be subbed in for dystrophin, a protein whose absence causes DMD.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Spontaneous preterm birth is also the number one cause of neonatal death around the world, and doctors admit they’re not entirely sure why some babies come early. New research from experts at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine is adding key data that may steer future investigations toward the elusive answer—starting with microbiota.
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Penn GSE’s Krystal Strong, an expert in youth leadership in African countries, told the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, that this “youth bulge” of Africans under the age of 30 represents a huge opportunity for African societies and the U.S., but only if a path to leadership can be opened for them.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
The assistant professor of Africana Studies is a scholar of religion and society in Africa and its diaspora. The Presidential Professorships are five-year term chairs, awarded to outstanding scholars, whose appointments to the standing faculty are approved by the Provost and who demonstrably contribute excellence and diversity to Penn’s inclusive community.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
Balkin’s solo and collaborative work explores and re-imagines humans’ relationships to the natural world and how planetary resources have been used and valued. She will be in residence in Philadelphia for two short-term stays in the spring and fall of 2020. The two residency periods coincide with major public events organized by PPEH which Balkin will also participate in and will include at least one public workshop for the Penn community.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
Newly published research in PLOS ONE from the Penn Program on Precision Medicine for the Brain reveals what research participants thought, felt, and did after learning they have “elevated” amyloid, a biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease.
FULL STORY AT Penn Memory Center →
The Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Diabetes & Endocrinology practices as a team help pregnant women gain better control of their diabetes while reducing the risk of complications to both mother and baby.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
