In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Penn Transplant Institute’s new Center will expand care for living donors, helping to maximize the number of lives saved through liver and kidney transplantation.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help fund research to study how placenta keep harmful substances away from developing babies while still providing proper nutrition. Research will include how transporter proteins carrying nutrients, dietary supplements, medications and toxic chemicals work during pregnancies, how individual placenta cells respond to various stimuli in the laboratory, and how environmental factors influence placental transporters during healthy and unhealthy or complicated pregnancies.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
The newly-digitized archive of Ed Ruscha's landmark series of Los Angeles photographs examines changes along Sunset Boulevard from 1966 to 2007.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
The goal of the online MS in Nutrition Science is to increase the nutrition science knowledge of students as a strategy to improve public health with improved health promotion and nutrition associated disease management in the U.S. and globally.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Students give their feedback on what makes these faculty and adjunct professors stand out.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
The student-athletes, coaches, athletics administrators, alumni that comprise the Racial Justice Task Force has been divided into sub-committees to allow for more focused discussions and planning in specific areas of the Plan of Action: First Steps to Combat Racism. The task force will complete its full recommendations by the end of October.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
The Weitzman School has established the Julian Abele Fellowship in Architecture, which will be given annually to a graduate architecture student or students. The Fellowship is named for the first Black architect to graduate from Penn.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
The Penn Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory for Healthy Aging pilot program solicits annually pilot studies that develop or test technology and AI to detect risk, predict needs, address disparities, improve access to care, and support decision making for chronic illness management and safe aging in place for older adults with or without Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias and their caregivers.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Jonas Nursing and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing have selected Stephanie Acquaye, a current Ph.D. student at Penn Nursing, as a Jonas Scholar in a program that aims to improve health care by expanding the pool of Ph.D. and DNP-prepared nurses needed to educate the next generation of leaders.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
FemmeHacks is Philadelphia’s first all-women collegiate hackathon, hosted by Penn’s Women in Computer Science chapter to empower, educate, and inspire women and nonbinary folks across the nation. This year’s event in February went virtual for the first time.
FULL STORY AT Mack Institute for Innovation Management →
