In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The civil rights lawyer is a featured speaker at the 11th Annual Public Interest Week, bringing together students, public interest lawyers, policymakers, and scholars for a variety of panels addressing the theme of “Justice for All.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
Robyn Barrow, doctoral candidate in history of art who specializes in Medieval and Byzantine art, worked with the Price Lab to create a 3-D model of a post-Byzantine boxwood cross stand.
FULL STORY AT OMNIA →
Numerous grants will be awarded to fund student work, teachers, artists, curators and community engagers.
FULL STORY AT Sachs Program for Arts Innovation →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
