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  • $19M from NIH establishes maternal health implementation science hub at Penn Medicine

    The seven-year grant funds the creation of an implementation science hub as part of the NIH’s new Maternal Health Research of Centers of Excellence initiative to promote maternal health equity.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Annenberg welcomes visiting scholars and postdoctoral fellows for 2023-24

    This year’s visiting scholars join the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication, Annenberg Public Policy Center, Center for Media at Risk, Center on Digital Culture and Society, and SAFELab, with postdoctoral fellows joining additional centers and labs.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication

  • Earned income tax credit limits support for those in poor health

    A new study by Seth A. Berkowitz, Guarav Dave, and LDI senior fellow Atheendar Venkataramani explored how the phase-in model of the earned income tax creditcreates a gap in income support for those with limited ability to work, which could create a “poverty-health trap,” where poor health worsens the ability to earn income.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • Penn and CHOPResearchers show gene editing tools can be delivered to perinatal brain

    Researchers in the Center for Fetal Research at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Engineering have identified an ionizable lipid nanoparticle that can deliver mRNA base editing tools to the brain.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today

  • Announcing the 2023 Lauder Fellows

    Penn’s School of Nursing has named its second cohort of Fellows for the Leonard A. Lauder Community Care Nurse Practitioner Program, and the group is comprised of nursing professionals from across the country who will begin full-time studies towards becoming a primary care nurse practitioner this fall.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Roos honored by American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

    David S. Roos, Penn’s E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology, will receive the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2024 Alice and C. C. Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology, in recognition of his work making seminal contributions to the field of molecular parasitology.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences

  • Grid reliability in the decarbonization era

    Responding to the challenge of climate change in the United States demands new approaches to grid reliability, argue Kleinman Center and Carey Law professor Shelley Welton and her coauthors.

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center

  • What the COVID experience teaches about designing a new stimulus package

    Fiscal and monetary policy moves need to be coordinated for maximum impact, a new Wharton paper finds.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • New grant from Panda Express establishes postdoctoral fellowship in Asian American studies

    Penn’s The School of Arts & Sciences has received a grant from the Panda CommUnity Fund to support the creation of the Panda Express Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Studies (ASAM) for recent Ph.D.s to pursue their own scholarship, offer new courses, support undergraduate and graduate research, collaborate with faculty, and help organize programming.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences

  • What happens to a business when the founder leaves?

    Startup founders are often fired by investors who want the company to steer into a new direction, yet new research from Wharton’s Danny Kim shows that these entrepreneurs have what it takes to effect change.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton