In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn Nursing, Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative, and New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing have been awarded 2023 grant from the Hillman Emergent Innovation: Serious Illness and End of Life program to study the use of social virtual reality in enhancing the treatment experience and reducing loneliness in people undergoing hemodialysis.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
At the Weitzman Commencement Ceremony in May 2024, the School will award Lin Huiyin, arguably the first and most famous female architect in modern China, with a long overdue posthumous Bachelor of Architecture degree.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Rashida Ng, Presidential Associate Professor of Architecture and chair of the undergraduate architecture program at Penn, and Marsha Perelman, a 1974 graduate of the Master of City Planning program and chair of Calder Philadelphia, have been recognized as 2023 Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
A new study by LDI senior fellow Norma B. Coe and colleagues finds that long-term care insurance coverage could increase the economic opportunities for adult children of aging parents by increasing the likelihood that they work full-time.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
In a new study, Cary Coglianese and co-author demonstrate the power of businesses to exert substantial influence over agency rulemaking.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
The Weitzman School welcomes Emma Mendel as the 2023-2024 McHarg Fellow in the Department of Landscape Architecture, and Stanley Jamal Collins as a provost’s postdoctoral fellow in the Department of City and Regional Planning. Xiang Zhang and Maximilian Ororbia have joined the Department of Architecture as postdoctoral fellows.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
The Penn-CHOP ECHO program will enroll patients at Penn Medicine during pregnancy and follow the infants into childhood at CHOP.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Penn Libraries has been expanding its selections of streaming films by working with distributors of international cinema like ArtMattan, Typecast Films, and the Media Education Foundation.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
A conference held at Annenberg took a deep dive into how gender, age, and aging are portrayed in the media, and the implications for society.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics has named the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement as the recipient of the 2023 Civic Mission of the Nation Award. The Center will receive $73,000 to produce a six-part video series for community colleges titled “The First Amendment in 21st Century America.”
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
