In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
On May 1, Penn Dental Medicine and PA Coalition for Oral Health co-hosted a special event celebrating 70 years of community water fluoridation in Philadelphia and promoting water fluoridation as an essential public health measure.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Penn Nursing’s Sharon Y. Irving is the first nurse, nurse practitioner, and woman of African-American heritage to be elected vice president of ASPEN, the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Carrera’s research explores LGBTQ+ BIPOC representation and resistance in queer photography from the southern United States.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
Tessa Gadomski in the Steven Miller Conservation Laboratory was tasked with stabilizing the Ms. Codex 1950, a fragile book of handwritten Persian poetry. Its catalog entry lists its publication date as between 1474 and 1650; the codex itself is dated 1474.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
Math professor Robin Pemantle has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, joining 143 others elected in 2024.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
The 10-week immersive traveling research experience begins May 28 through August 2, and travels from Philadelphia to Gettysburg, Lancaster to Erie to explore the possibility of connecting across political difference through direct practice in Pennsylvania.
FULL STORY AT Paideia Program →
Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, professor of nursing and sociology and Penn Nursing Dean Emerita, will be one of three awardees of the 2024 National Humanism in Medicine Medal from The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the leading nonprofit dedicated to humanism in health care for all.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Amazon Web Services has granted Penn Engineering $700,000 to fund 10 Ph.D. student research projects in Penn Engineering’s ASSET (AI-Enabled Systems: Safe, Explainable and Trustworthy) Center advancing safe and responsible AI.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Penn LDI senior fellows Shazia Mehmood Siddique, Jaya Aysola, Michael O. Harhay, Harald Schmidt, Gary E. Weissman, and colleagues have conducted a systematic review of 63 studies published since 2011. They found evidence that health care algorithms can both improve and worsen racial and ethnic disparities for access, quality of care, and health outcomes for patients, regardless of their explicit inclusion of race or ethnicity as a variable.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Eric Stoopler, professor of oral medicine in Penn’s School of Dental Medicine, has been recognized by the American Academy of Oral Medicine as this year’s recipient of its Craig S. Miller Diamond Pin Award.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
