In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Researchers at Penn Engineering have designed an electroadhesive material that is strong, operates at low voltages and quickly switches states, utilizing ionoelastomers instead of dielectrics. The design can improve robotic exoskeletons and prosthetics, finger-gripping systems, and shape-shifting robots.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
The Communities Advancing Research in Education (CARE) Initiative, run by Penn GSE professor Gerald Campano, creates an equitable partnership between Penn GSE researchers and doctoral students and the local community.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
For the past two years, the Penn Libraries has been collaborating with Khajistan, an organization committed to the preservation of cultural production from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, sourcing and documenting a wide variety of ephemeral materials from South Asia and the Middle East.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
2024 Penn Carey Law graduates Allison Nasson and Mikaela Wolf-Sorokin have been awarded prestigious Skadden Fellowships.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
The climate value of forest carbon depends on how long it stays out of the atmosphere. CO2 consequences stretch into geologic time, but forests and the contracts binding them are temporary.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
By making mammograms easy to schedule through personal online patient portals, Penn Medicine research shows a significant increase in screenings for breast cancer.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Wharton’s Stephanie Creary talks with experts about the harmful effects of “covering,” a strategy in which people downplay their identity to conform to mainstream culture in the workplace.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
National data shows improved survival for non-Hispanic Black patients, according to a Penn Medicine analysis presented at the 65th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Global Justice and Human Rights visiting fellows are Philip Alston, the John Norton Pomeroy professor of law at New York University Law School, and Kate Gilmore is a former United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights, a professor-in-practice with the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an honorary professor with the University of Essex Human Rights Centre.
FULL STORY AT Perry World House →
This endowed program—created from a $2M gift to Penn Nursing by former Penn president Amy Gutmann and her husband Michael Doyle—provides financial aid for exemplary undergraduate and graduate nursing students, supplementing their education with tailored learning to help shape nurse leaders who deliver exceptional evidence-based care, design research, inform policy, spark innovation, and advocate for social justice worldwide.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
