In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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 →
Thanks to their top-14 performances at Saturday's Ivy League Heptagonal Cross Country Championships, Anthony Russo and Sam Webb were named second-team All-Ivy.
FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →
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 →
At Penn Health-Tech’s Rothberg Catalyzer two-day makerthon that challenges interdisciplinary student teams to prototype and pitch medical devices, a team of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics graduate students won with their orthotic device that children with cerebral palsy can more comfortably wear as they sleep.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Blog →
A team led by scientists in the Perelman School has identified nine potential new COVID-19 treatments, including three that are already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating other diseases. The team screened thousands of existing drugs and drug-like molecules for their ability to inhibit the replication of the COVID-19-causing coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
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 →
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 →
The assistant professor in Penn Dental Medicine’s Department of Oral Medicine and Assistant Director of the Postgraduate Oral Medicine Program, has been recognized with two awards—the 2024 10 Under 10 Award presented by the American Dental Association (ADA) and the 2024 Pennsylvania Dental Association (PDA) Recognition Award.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
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 →
