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  • Announcing the 2023 Amy Gutmann Leadership Scholars

    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 →

  • Edward Lin receives award at Harvard Dental School

    Yi Te (Edward) Lin, a third-year periodontal resident and lab member at Penn Engineering and Applied Sciences‘ Electrical and Systems Engineering Department, received the first-place Scientific Poster Award for Student Excellence at the Global Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry hosted by Harvard University’s School of Dental Medicine.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Celebrating Penn graduate student at the Ghana Energy Awards

    Penn graduate student Justice Ohene-Akoto was honored at the Ghana Energy Awards where participants discussed the best way to bring Ghana to a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive energy future.

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →

  • Penn Medicine at the 2023 ASH Meeting

    Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center and the Perelman School of Medicine will present data on the latest advances in blood cancer and benign hematology research at the 65th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Penn Collaboratory to fund ten new pilot studies on aging

    The Penn Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory for Healthy Aging (PennAITech)—made up of Penn’s School of Nursing, the Perelman School of Medicine, and other departments across the University—focuses on identifying developing, evaluating, commercializing, and disseminating innovative technology and artificial intelligence methods/software to support aging.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Making ‘mega-eco’ projects work

    An international gathering of designers and land managers organized by The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology took stock in large-scale ecological restoration projects underway around the world.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • The safety net funding that isn’t getting to safety net patients

    LDI senior fellow Paula Chatterjee says the flaws of the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital Payment Programs are its failure to effectively target federal safety-net funding for hospitals, lowering the quality of care and outcomes for safety-net patients, particularly for those of color.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Identifying and addressing lung cancer disparities in Philadelphia

    A collaboration among Penn Medicine, Temple Health, and Jefferson Health aims to identify community members most likely to have lung cancer and those least likely to undergo screening.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Parkinson’s support group fosters friendship in an underserved community

    The Support Group for Black Patients with Parkinson’s disease, launched last winter, serves as a space where patients in an underserved community can connect with those with shared experiences.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Penn receives $2M NASA grant for TRUSSES Project to study lunar robotics

    The TRUSSES Project: Temporarily, Robots Unite to Surmount Sandy Entrapments, then Separate at Penn Engineering aims to develop innovative methods for teams of robots to overcome environmental hazards on the Moon.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →