In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Enkhbold, a second-year MCP student in the housing, community, and economic development at the Weitzman School has been awarded the American Association of University Women's International Fellowship for her research into Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's informal neighborhoods known as “Ger areas.”
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Penn Engineering’s David Issadore and Jacob Brenner and their lab groups will work on an interdisciplinary project funded by the NEMO Prize to package and deliver DNA into the nucleus of a cell.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
The Penn Literacy Network, in collaboration with Thinkist, has launched an effort to support rural Pennsylvanians by helping high school students develop the social-emotional skills and metacognitive self-awareness needed to model what it means to be an effective learner.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Automation is reducing job mobility for low-skilled workers, which can influence political preferences, according to research from Wharton’s Pinar Yildirim.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The $1 million grant from the Bedford Falls Foundation funds 15 merit students with financial need annually.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Researchers from Annenberg, Columbia University, UC Berkeley, and Dartmouth College used fMRI data to explore how partisan messaging is processed in the brain.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
UTR, originally created for Teach for America, is designed for first-year teachers, paraprofessionals, assistant teachers, or long-term substitutes known for its hands-on approach and a strong emphasis on equity, social justice, and anti-racism.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
The Gittis Legal Clinics logged over 12,500 hours of legal services on cases for over 300 clients, both individuals and organizations.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
The Universities are renewing a memorandum of understanding signed five years ago wherein they will jointly presenting at conferences, have students visit one another's institutions, and engage in combined research.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
By poring over decades worth of data, researchers hope to better determine how pesticides, metals, and exposures to other elements impact Alzheimer’s disease risk.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
