In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
This month, Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice announced the launch of a new training institute, the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, & Mixed Methodologies, designed for scholars from underrepresented backgrounds as well as for scholars doing critical research on communities of color.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
A new CRISPR gene-editing technique prevented a genetic liver disease known to be driven by hundreds of different mutations and improved clinical symptoms in mice, suggesting potential treatment for patients with a rare metabolic urea-cycle disorder caused by a deficiency of a specific enzyme, as well as other hereditary diseases triggered by different mutations on the same gene.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Lyle Ungar, professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, is among this class of twelve Leshner Fellows selected by The American Association for the Advancement of Science, all researchers in the area of artificial intelligence.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering →
Making the workplace more diverse has many measurable benefits, but it’s essential for leadership to understand how to build more diverse teams.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
Five Penn GSE scholars share tools to bring restorative justice tools—problem-solving centered on responsibility, nuance, and growth—to students and teachers.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
The new center—the Roybal Center for Palliative Care in Dementia—is led by Scott Halpern, who is also the director of the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center.
FULL STORY AT Penn Memory Center →
Two CHIBE directors have received a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to establish a first-of-its-kind nudge unit focused on HIV prevention in South Africa. Harsha Thirumurthy, associate director of CHIBE, and Alison Buttenheim, associate director of CHIBE, will co-lead this three-year initiative with their colleagues at HE²RO.
FULL STORY AT Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics →
Marc Miskin, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering is building a “future robot army,” 10,000 bots at a time and small enough to pass through the thinnest hypodermic needle.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering →
Treating a patient with dementia has unique challenges, including the fact that it’s often difficult for caregivers to relate to exactly what the patient is experiencing. One method that the Princeton Medical Center is using to help its staff get a glimpse into how individuals with dementia experience the world is Virtual Dementia Tour® (VDT) training.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Bracho is the first Abrams Artist-in-Residence in Penn Arts & Sciences, in the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Bracho is a writer, editor, and teacher who has worked in community and university, theater and video/film, politics and aesthetics for the past 29 years.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
