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  • Penn Engineering’s GRASP Lab helps lead $5 million effort to accelerate robotics research

    Researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Science are partnering with investigators at Oregon State University, as well as Semio, a Los Angeles-based software company that specializes in robotics applications, on a $5 million National Science Foundation effort to accelerate human-robotic-interface research by designing a standardized humanoid robot to distribute to the scientific community.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • City of Philadelphia honors Penn Dental Dean for service to individuals with disabilities

    Mark S. Wolff, Penn Dental Medicine’s Morton Amsterdam Dean, was honored by the City of Philadelphia for his service to individuals with disabilities as a 2023 recipient of the “My City, My Place” Brighter Futures Awards

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Weitzman faculty, staff, and alums at United Nations Habitat Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya

    The international convening of the highest decision-making body on sustainable urbanization and human settlements in the world, convened from June 5-9 in Nairobi, Kenya. Eugenie L. Birch, Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education at Weitzman and co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research gave input on 10 resolutions that were ultimately approved by the UNHA.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • Tweets from emergency medicine clinicians during COVID-19 reveal mental distress

    LDI senior fellows Anish K. Agarwal and Sharath Chandra Guntuku discuss a study that finds the Surgeon General’s “epidemic of loneliness” has hit emergency physicians.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • RSV Is a serious health threat, but the public knows little about it

    A new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that the American public is ill-informed about RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, unfamiliar with its most common symptoms, and more hesitant to recommend a vaccine against it to pregnant people than to older adults. 

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • Richard Weller honored with Landscape Architecture Foundation legacy award

    Richard Weller, professor of landscape architecture and co-executive director of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism & Ecology at the Weitzman School of Design, was presented with the inaugural LAF Legacy Award at the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s June 14 annual awards event. The LAF Legacy Award was created in 2023 by the LAF to recognize past members of the LAF Board of Directors who provided extraordinary service and contributions to the organization and its legacy.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • Diversity at Work: How diversity in leadership improves boards

    Stephanie Creary talks about how corporate boards can better represent the people they serve.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • How employers can support women’s reproductive rights

    It’s been a year since Roe v. Wade was overturned. In this episode of the podcast Leading Diversity at Work, hosted by Wharton management Professor Stephanie Creary, experts tackle the sensitive subject of how companies handle the issue of abortion.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • Two early-career investigators from Penn Vet recognized for advancing biomedical research

    Andrew Modzelewski, assistant professor of molecular biology, has been named a 2023 Searle Scholar, and Kotaro Sasaki, assistant professor of biomedical sciences, has received the Endocrine Society’s 2023 Early Investigator Award. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Vet →

  • Are parents investing in the best college savings plan possible?

    College savings plans can be a huge boon for families, but only if benefactors are investing wisely, according to research from Wharton experts.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →