In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The award will fund research by Feng, assistant professor in the departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical and Systems Engineering, called “Topological Engineering for Active Photonic Structures and Devices,” which aims to advance the field of photonic computing and communications systems.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
Penn researchers found that patients are often willing to share their Google search histories with medical researchers and allow them to be analyzed alongside their medical records.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
School of Social Policy & Practice faculty members Richard J. Gelles, Steven C. Marcus, Phyllis Solomon, Ram A. Cnaan, Susan B. Sorenson, and Dennis P. Culhane have recently been recognized as one of the top 100 most influential contemporary social work faculty in a recent Journal of Social Service Research article.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
The 2019 Wharton Women Business Conference brought female students together to discuss how to achieve their goals in an ever-changing professional landscape.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
Chester County Hospital serves as a satellite chapter of Mended Hearts, a national and community-based organization that provides patients undergoing bypass surgery, valve replacement, and other cardiothoracic surgeries with a resource after surgery.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A Penn Medicine and CHOP study finds that the fetal signaling pathways active in a developing fetus may offer future opportunities to treat lung damage caused by prematurity and other lung injuries.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Federal Reserve is more than the U.S. central bank; it is also a kind of financial State Department, playing a key role in the nation’s foreign affairs. This is not new: The Fed has functioned as a kind of diplomatic corps since its founding in 1913.
FULL STORY AT Wharton Public Policy Initiative →
Washington, D.C.,-based book collector Joanna Banks gifted her collection of works by and about African Americans to the Penn Libraries, a major trove of over 10,000 books, periodicals, recordings, and photographs.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
Last year, Penn GSE held a design sprint challenge to use design thinking to reimagine how the first floor of the Penn GSE building could be used. On Feb. 13, artwork created by students at Strawberry Mansion High School, Chester A. Arthur School, and the Juvenile Justice Center was formally unveiled on the first floor.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Studies show that the number medical students studying overseas has increased significantly over the decades, from 6.4 percent in the mid-1980s to over 27 percent in 2017, according to a study in BMC Medical Education and an Association of American Medical Colleges survey.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
