In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
On election night 2018, five Annenberg alumni were behind the scenes at ABC and CBS, helping to make sense of a mind-boggling quantity of precinct-level returns and exit polling.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
For the first time in program history, three runners —Maddie Villalba, Anthony Russo and Sam Webb—from the men's and women's cross country teams qualified for the NCAA National Championships by finishing in the top four of non-automatically qualified runners.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
PennDesign has appointed Ralph Lemon, a choreographer, writer, visual artist, and curator, the Keith L. and Kathy Sachs Visiting Professor in the Department of Fine Arts for the 2018-2019 Academic Year.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that when a natural photoreceptor protein is exposed to light, it moves itself from the inside of the cell to the surface, like a molecular “elevator,” by directly binding to the cell’s membrane.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
Melissa Bailey, a clinical dietician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania believes there is no “one size fits all” approach to diet, but says there is real scientific evidence backing the merits of soup—especially for those with a cold.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
To optimize post-acute care decision-making, a team led by the School of Nursing developed, validated, and tested a two-step clinical decision support algorithm called Discharge Referral Expert System for Care Transitions (DIRECT).
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Marshall M. Bouton from the Center for the Advanced Study of India discusses what lies ahead for U.S.-India relations.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Kit Delgado of the Perelman School of Medicine and a team from Penn and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have received a major grant from the Federal Highway Administration to help curb distracted driving.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Alexa Schneck, Paige Meily, Sofia Palacios, Erin Kelly, and Ava Rosati were all chosen as some of the top field hockey players in the conference.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
Jennifer Whittaker, a PhD student in the Department of City and Regional Planning, has been selected to participate in one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s leadership development programs.
FULL STORY AT Penn Design →
