New resources for the interdisciplinary study of human rights
The Penn Libraries now provides online access to two of the most comprehensive databases for human rights research.
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11/15
Inside Penn
In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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At-home consumer tests raise ethical, health, and privacy questions
A new study from Penn LDI finds the terms of these tests shift responsibility to the consumer to determine the results’ accuracy and usefulness.
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Announcing Living the Hard Promise: A dialogue series
The series calls upon Penn to become a campus community that engages all members in empathetic dialogues. It will inform our understanding of today’s most pressing issues—from the concerns of Israelis and Palestinians to the rise of organized hate in the United States to the challenges of upholding free speech while ensuring civility and mutual respect.
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Featured Books and DVDs: Native American heritage
For this month’s selections, the Penn Libraries partnered with Penn Native Community Council, which was formed in 2018 to highlight the histories, heritage, and cultures of the Native American, First Nations, and Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
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Cardiovascular disease in American Indian and Alaska Native populations reflects grave health disparities
Indigenous populations have the lowest life expectancy of all racial groups and experience disproportionate burdens for chronic conditions like cardiovascular disease. To evaluate these disparities, LDI senior fellows Lauren A. Eberly, Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana, Judy A. Shea, Peter W. Groeneveld, and colleagues used Medicare administrative data and the Distressed Communities Index to assess trends in the incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular disease among American Indian and Alaska Native Medicare beneficiaries
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Penn Medicine receives $5M grant to study next generation of dementia treatments
Penn physicians and scientists will lead studies on underlying mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias with a grant from the Delaware Community Foundation.
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Penn among education partners in Mid-Atlantic Clean Hydrogen Hub (MACH2) to advance clean energy
The University of Pennsylvania will serve as an education partner in support of workforce development efforts MACH2, a partnership that will receive up to $750 million in U.S. Department of Energy funding through the historic Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs program.
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Grace Sanders Johnson earns honor for ‘White Gloves, Black Nation’
The associate professor of Africana Studies has won the 2023 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize for “White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti,” which examines the political life of women in Haiti during and after the U.S. occupied the country, from 1915 to 1934.
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Penn Medicine’s Lisa Bellini receives Association of American Medical Colleges’ Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award
The senior vice dean for Academic Affairs and a professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care in the Perelman School of Medicine has been selected as one of four recipients of the 2023 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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Supporting the well-being of LGBTQ+ adolescents and their families
Penn Nursing’s Dalmacio Dennis Flores, assistant professor of nursing in the Department of Family and Community Health, has been awarded a 2023 grant from the Hillman Innovations in Care program. The $600,000 grant will be used to expand a Penn Nursing-led program that supports the well-being of LGBTQ+ adolescents and their families.
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