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  • The Sachs Program 2018/2019 grant opportunities

    Numerous grants will be awarded to fund student work, teachers, artists, curators and community engagers. 

    FULL STORY AT Sachs Program for Arts Innovation →

  • Music, ethnicity, and the legacy of war in Sri Lanka

    An intense interest in drumming led Jim Sykes, Assistant Professor of Music, to study how music connects Sri Lankan populations typically defined by ethnic difference.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • APPC postdoc Matt Motta honored with Elsevier Atlas award

    Postdoctoral fellow Matt Motta was honored with the Elsevier Atlas award for his article “Knowing less but presuming more: Dunning-Kruger effects and the endorsement of anti-vaccine policy attitudes,” published in August 2018 in the journal Social Science & Medicine.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • New universal standard set for feeding tube placement

    The best practice recommendations related to feeding tube location verification in pediatric patients are now available online as a special report in the journal Nutrition in Clinical Practice. Penn Nursing’s Sharon Y. Irving is the lead author on these recommendations.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Report from the first national 'Nudge Units in Health Care' symposium

    In the wake of two years of often dramatic successes, the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit and its collaborative partners gathered with top level executives from 22 health systems from across the U.S. and Canada gathered for the historic conclave.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Managing the coming tsunami of genomic and cellular therapy costs

    U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb was the keynote speaker at Penn’s “Cost of a Cure" conference on precision medicine, where he announced two new draft guidelines for clinical trial protocols.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • The downside of applying lean startup principles

    Wharton's Andrea Contigiani discusses his research on lean startup principles.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Robotics Lab pushes boundaries of design and construction for tiny house prototype

    Stuart-Smith and Akbarzadeh, assistant professors of architecture at PennDesign, are working a tiny house prototype consisting of about ten total pieces, which can be assembled and disassembled. Each piece will be cast inside a mold that will be cut by a robot in the ARI Robotics Lab.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • Meet the new LDI Senior Fellows: The 2018 Fall Kickoff

    The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics held its sixth annual "Fall Kickoff" to welcome eighteen new Senior Fellows to its ranks. The newly inducted faculty members represent Penn's Perelman School of Medicine, School of Nursing and School of Engineering as well as Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Crescenz VA Medical Center.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Deep Jariwala wins Nanomaterials Young Investigator award

    Jariwala, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, is an expert in nano- and atomic-scale devices that could have applications in information technology and renewable energy.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →