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  • Penn partners in multi-university research center supporting healthy pregnancies

    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 →

  • From prints to pixels: ‘Sunset Over Sunset’ explores urbanization in Los Angeles

    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 →

  • 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 →

  • 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 →

  • Penn’s Women in Computer Science chapter holds its seventh annual and first-ever virtual FemmeHacks

    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 →

  • Russo, Webb named All-Ivy from men's cross country

    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 →

  • 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 →

  • 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 →

  • Students’ innovative orthotic device wins Rothberg Catalyzer

    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 →

  • Penn study uncovers possible COVID-19 drugs—including several that are already FDA-approved

    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 →