In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The 26 Fellows are drawn from all four undergraduate schools for a three-year program culminating in a fourth-year capstone project.
FULL STORY AT Paideia Program →
Virginia M.Y. Lee, the John H. Ware 3rd Professor in Alzheimer’s Research in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Roy H. Hamilton, a professor of neurology and physical medicine and rehabilitation, and director of the brainSTIM Center were recognized for their achievements in April. Lee received the Sheila Essey Award for her research contributions in the search for the cause, prevention of, and cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Zhi Ren, Justin Burrell, and Marshall Padilla, all members of the inaugural cohort of fellows in the Center for Innovation and Precision Dentistry NIDCR T90/R90 Postdoctoral Training Program, have been recognized for their research activities with fellows receiving awards from the American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research, the Society for Biomaterials, and the Osteology Foundation.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
In a JAMA Network Open study, LDI senior fellows Carolyn C. Cannuscio, Raina M. Merchant, David A. Asch, Nandita Mitra, and David Grande, and colleagues tested whether consumers were more willing to share data if certain protections were implemented such as consent, data deletion, regulatory oversight, and transparency. The authors found that among these four protections, consent was seen as the most important to consumers.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science and Director of Penn’s Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media, has been named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, has been awarded a People’s Voice Award at the Webbys 11 times. The People’s Voice Awards are voted on by the public. FactCheck.org has won 21 Webbys in all.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
Affirmative action programs are often meant to lower barriers for the most disadvantaged people. But the amount of benefit depends on how they are designed, according to research from Wharton’s Alex Rees-Jones.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Children in two of Penn Dental Medicine’s community care programs have been getting a new book along with their dental exams through new partnership with A Book a Day, a nonprofit based in West Philadelphia, and distributed through the School’s PennSmiles mobile clinic.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Journal →
The Joseph Bordogna Professor in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is the 2023 recipient of the Langmuir Lectureship Award, presented by the American Chemical Society Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry and its journal, Langmuir, for her research in the field of colloid and surface chemistry.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Perry World House announced the thirty-four students selected for its next cohort of World House Student Fellows. The group represents each of Penn’s four undergraduate schools and a wide array of academic backgrounds and global policy interests.
FULL STORY AT Perry World House →
