In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The assistant professor in preventive and restorative sciences in Penn Dental Medicine and in materials science and engineering in Penn Engineering has received an Individual Biomedical Research Award to explore a novel approach to improving treatment for childhood leukemia
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GSE Centennial Presidential Professor of Education and Penn’s Vice Provost for Faculty Laura Perna, who specializes in college access, affordability, and success, says students should complete the FAFSA as soon as possible.
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This year’s program challenged university students to design a new environmental education center at Cobb’s Creek Park. Ecoloop by Sharlene Yulita took first place; second place went to The Mystery Shack by Chendou Zhu anb Rain Ruihua Yang; and third place went to Io-Ind by Jonathan Bonezzi and Ryan Lane.
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Heejoon Shin, Cat Nguyen, and Kwun Hang Henry Chung from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Korean Language Program participated in the third Mid-Atlantic Korean Speech Contest.
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Piloted by Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Community Outreach and Engagement team, the effort aims to reach diverse populations and address prostate cancer screening disparities.
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Robertson has studied media narratives and discourses that sustain power relations, particularly for cites and sports mega-events at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
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New managers typically receive no training for their new role. Wharton’s Peter Cappelli discusses three common struggles and how to avoid them.
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LDI senior fellow Marina Serper studied how transportation affects Americans with chronic liver disease in the U.S. and the relationship between care-related transportation insecurity and financial security, self-reported health status, work productivity, outpatient and acute health care utilization, and mortality.
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The funding from Gerstner Philanthropies will study effects of probiotic supplement to prevent methane production in commercial herds.
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Ma, a fourth-year doctoral student in Computer and Information Science has been awarded an Apple Scholars in AIML Ph.D. fellowship for his contributions in computer science and engineering.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
