In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
For the third straight year, University of Pennsylvania junior Reeham Salah advanced to the CSA Individual championship match. Her freshman year, she lost to Trinity's Kanzy El Defrawy. Last season ,she fell to Georgina Kennedy from Harvard. Standing in her way of the title yet again on Sunday would be Kennedy.
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Patients who sustain severe head injuries tend to have better outcomes if they are taken to a designated trauma center, but 44 percent of them are first taken to hospitals without these specialized care capabilities, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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The 2018 Penn Champions Club Women's Giving Challenge started on March 1 and will continue through March 31 with the purpose of empowering the current and future generation of women of Penn Athletics. During the 31-day fundraising challenge, an anonymous donor has pledged up to $100,000 to match all new and increased dollars raised by Penn Athletic alumni, family members and friends to any varsity athletic program with a women's team.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The 2024-2025 recipients of grants from the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy are Chenyi Ma, Dennis Culhane, Siva Mathiyazhagan, and Sanya Carley.
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