In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn’s Center for Mental Health and the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health have jointly won a Society for Implementation Research Collaboration Conference award for their years of work on a project to improve care in the City's community mental health centers.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Reflecting on her early career, M. Celeste Simon, a professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and the scientific director of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, notes the excitement and challenges associated with opening a lab. It’s a feeling that Sydney M. Shaffer also experienced in January, when she opened her lab at Penn, developing and using cutting-edge imaging and sequencing technologies to investigate single-cell problems in cancer.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Veteran radio journalist Dan Gorenstein is launching an in-depth podcast analyzing topical health care issues, in conjunction with Leonard Davis Institute, the Annenberg School, and the Center for Public Health Initiatives.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
New Wharton research shows that getting the initial coin offering design structure right is a key ingredient for success.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Hosting what will become an annual event, Penn Dental Medicine presented the First Annual Penn Dental Medicine Pride Celebration on October 7, bringing together faculty, staff, students, and alumni to celebrate diversity and build community within the School.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Howard Neukrug, Professor of Practice and Executive Director of The Water Center at Penn, discusses the underlying factors that led to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and what can be done to minimize similar problems in the future.
FULL STORY AT OMNIA →
Researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine will lead a multi-institutional effort in pursuit of developing a critical tool for imaging the brains of patients with Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, with a a five-year $20 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A Penn Medicine study shows patients who use online platforms connected to their health records are more likely to take preventative health measures.
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Earlier this year, Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) launched the SP2 Task Force on Race and Social Justice, exploring initiatives and activities to create a more united community. SP2 Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Jerri Bourjolly discusses the impetus for the task force, its main goals, and next steps.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
For the second year in a row, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected seven researchers from Penn to receive its prestigious Director’s Awards, part of the NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program. The initiative, designed to fuel research endeavors that are more opened-ended and have a potentially broader effect on scientific understanding compared to more traditional research, presents awards to scientists in four categories to support research over a five-year period.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
