In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The full-time online program covers a diversity of disciplines in creating, synthesizing, and disseminating evidence to inform clinical practice and policies at all levels of the health care system.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
The $15M renovation project will transform the fifth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center with a dedicated, state-of-the-art space for the Center for Global Collections
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The Vagelos Professor of Energy Research and director of the Vagelos Institute of Energy Science and Technology has been elected to this year’s class of American Chemical Society Fellows.
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This summer, the Pennovation Accelerator held their sixth annual Pitch Day at the Pennovation Center. The culminating event for the six-week program focused on business development. Of the nine pitches, Medicratic was named the overall 2023 Pennovation Accelerator Winner, and Pocket Scribe won Best Pitch at the 2023 Pennovation Accelerator Pitch Day.
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A Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia team will seek to develop treatments for three rare, incurable genetic diseases that impact newborns in the first weeks and months after birth: Phenylketonuria (PKU), hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 (HT1), and mucopolysaccharidosis type 1 (MPSI), commonly known as Hurler’s Syndrome.
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A team of researchers from Penn’s Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Communication has received a $4 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify ways to increase vaccination rates, focusing on the drivers of acceptance of an anticipated HIV vaccine.
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Weitzman School of Design professor Masoud Akbarzadeh and Ph.D. architecture students Yao Lu, Hua Chai, Teng Teng, and Yefan Zhi from the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory presented a total of six research papers at the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures 2023 in Melbourne Australia in July.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Two decades ago, the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index was published to measure the nursing practice environment. Although the instrument’s use has resulted in advances in science and quality improvement efforts, its potential may be limited by the availability and quality of translations into different languages.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Graduate group chair Franca Trubiano and architecture Ph.D. student Ji Yoon Bae from the Weitzman School of Design both presented research papers at the UIA 2023 World Congress of Architecture in Copenhagen, Denmark in July.
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Of the 10,000 works in the Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books, at least 1,000 are identified as publications for children. Joanna Banks is a regular person who collected books for years as a hobby; she just saw books by Black authors, books featuring Black children, and many other types of media like cookbooks, and bought as many as she could, starting in the mid-1960s. This collection represents books that were available to the average person at the time.
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