In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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 →
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 →
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 →
Wharton's Andrea Contigiani discusses his research on lean startup principles.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Juan Miguel Andres, a Ph.D. student in Penn GSE’s Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education program, Andres explores data on massive open online course (MOOC) student behavior. Ninety percent of the eighty million people who enrolled in MOOCs never complete the course.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
A new study finds that a compound secreted in the bloodstream could be the key factor that causes wounds in older people to heal with less scarring than younger people.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The biennial award honors a Penn Nursing faculty member who has made a distinguished contribution to nursing scholarship. Bowles is the van Ameringen Chair in Nursing Excellence and a professor in Penn Nursing’s Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
