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The senior vice dean for Academic Affairs and a professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care in the Perelman School of Medicine has been selected as one of four recipients of the 2023 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Penn Nursing’s Dalmacio Dennis Flores, assistant professor of nursing in the Department of Family and Community Health, has been awarded a 2023 grant from the Hillman Innovations in Care program. The $600,000 grant will be used to expand a Penn Nursing-led program that supports the well-being of LGBTQ+ adolescents and their families.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
The books “If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder” and “If Your Adolescent Has Depression” are the newest in a collection of informative and authoritative guides for parents to understand and help teens with a variety of adolescent mental health conditions.
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High schoolers who identify as LGBTQ are at greater risk of vaping cannabis than their heterosexual peers, according to research from Annenberg School for Communication professor Andy Tan and colleagues.
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A research team from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center has received the grant for cancer research to target dormant tumor cells before they can cause a recurrence of the disease.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A new brief by the Penn Wharton Budget Model suggests three options for effectively lowering the debt-to-GDP ratio, warning that the U.S. government needs to act now.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
New marketing research from Wharton’s Pinar Yildirim and John Zhang examines the interplay between how consumers use technology to shop and their brand loyalty.
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Kandi Wiens, a Penn GSE expert on burnout, emotional intelligence and resiliency, says it’s essential for educators to be mindful of self-care and stress management.
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Penn Libraries has acquired two important collections that illuminate Sun Ra’s artistic output and his influence on American music and culture, including the research file of jazz historian John Szwed, author of the biography “Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
Thinking intentionally about how to create space for emotional processing in gathering spaces is always appropriate, whether the goal is to foster meaningful dialogue or simply to diffuse distractions. It becomes especially important in moments of discernible collective unrest in response to major campus, community, national, or global events. The Paideia Program shares a few resources that may help you think about how to address these moments.
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