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  • Penn Medicine Emergency Medicine Physician and Digital Health Expert Raina Merchant Appointed to JAMA Editorial Board

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Diversity in the Stacks: African cinema

    It is no simple task to represent the entirety of the Penn Libraries film collections under the rubric African cinema. The Penn Libraries has been collecting film and media from around the world for decades, including films by African directors and about Africa.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →

  • Rangita de Silva de Alwis elected to UN CEDAW Committee

    The senior adjunct professor of Global Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School was elected in June to the United Nations Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) for the term 2023-2026. Adopted by the United Nations in 1979, CEDAW is the most important human rights treaty for women.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • Penn Nursing launches new online Master of Science in Nutrition Science

    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 →

  • Penn Collaboratory to fund more than $2.5M in grants

    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 →

  • Six Penn Law faculty receive 2017-18 teaching awards

    Students give their feedback on what makes these faculty and adjunct professors stand out. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • Stephanie Acquaye selected as a 2024-2026 Jonas Scholar

    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 →

  • Penn Athletics’ Plan of Action update: First Steps to Combat Racism and composition of Racial Justice Task Force

    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 →

  • SP2 climate inequality projects awarded Penn grants

    The 2024-2025 recipients of grants from the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy are Chenyi Ma, Dennis Culhane, Siva Mathiyazhagan, and Sanya Carley.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →

  • Announcing the Julian Abele Endowed Fellowship Fund

    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 →