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  • Sigal Ben-Porath and Susan Yoon receive inaugural Presidential Professorships

    Ben-Porath has been named the MRMJJ Presidential Professor and Yoon, who also serves as associate dean for Research and Faculty Affairs, has been named the Graduate School of Education Presidential Professor.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education

  • Ivy Plus Provost Leadership Fellows and Ivy Plus Mellon Leadership Fellow

    Penn’s Ivy Plus Provost Leadership Fellows and Ivy Plus Mellon Leadership Fellow will participate in the 2023-2024 Institute on Inquiry, Equity and Leadership of the Faculty Advancement Network, a consortium of 12 research universities collaborating to advance diversity and inclusion.

    FULL STORY AT Almanac

  • Frank Matero sworn in as expert member of Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

    The Weitzman School’s Gonick Family Professor was appointed by President Joe Biden to the ACHP, an independent federal agency comprised of 24 statutorily designated members from federal agencies, preservation organizations, Indian tribes, and expert private citizens.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • Alzheimer’s science updates from Penn and beyond at Alzheimer’s Association conference

    This year, more than 45 University of Pennsylvania scientists were among 10,000 attendees of the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference held in Amsterdam.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Memory Center

  • New master’s in oral, population health accepting first cohort this fall

    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

  • Karen Goldberg elected ACS Fellow

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences

  • The sixth annual Pennovation Accelerator Pitch Day

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Pennovation Works

  • NIH awards Penn Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia $26 million grant to develop therapies for rare newborn genetic diseases

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Penn researchers receive NIH grant to ID barriers to accepting a future HIV vaccine

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center

  • University of Pennsylvania Libraries launches renovation of the Center for Global Collections following two major gifts

    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

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries