In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Wharton's Jonah Berger discusses his research on how time of day impacts consumer decision making.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Through Penn Law’s Federal Appellate Externship, Judah Bellin recently won a victory in the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals that will have long-ranging implications for future cases by incarcerated litigants.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
Penn received a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the Office of Naval Research for software complexity reduction, or simplifying complex internet protocols to build greater security. The project will create new ways to provide greater security and resilience for legacy Navy software.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
A multi-institutional study, led by researchers from Penn Medicine, found that among patients who underwent a transcatheter aortic valve replacement, a high number experienced severe and moderate cases of prosthesis-patient mismatch—meaning the implanted heart valve is too small for the patient which can lead to inadequate blood flow.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
