In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Fiscal and monetary policy moves need to be coordinated for maximum impact, a new Wharton paper finds.
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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.
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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.
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The Kleinman Center’s co-faculty Director Sanya Carly and her team were awarded an EPA grant to evaluate the effects of weatherization and electrification on household energy consumption and behavior, energy poverty, and indoor air quality for urban Cincinnati.
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A curated selection of Philadelphia-centric books and DVDs are on display on the first floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.
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Wharton’s Samir Nurmohamed explains “dirty creativity,” a phrase he and his co-author coined to describe how entrepreneurs pitch unusual products that consumers may find objectionable.
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Demystifying mechanochemistry, the crushing of chemicals to produce reactions and substances, is the central goal of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry, an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration.
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