In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Upper Merion Area High School hosted the 2023 Middle and High School Student Leadership Institutes earlier this month, with more than 700 student leaders and educators in attendance. The event is organized by the Delaware Valley Consortium for Equity and Excellence, a project of Penn GSE’s Coalition for Educational Equity.
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Emily Largent, Peter Reese, and Dominic Sisti are recognized for their work towards informing scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, life sciences research, and the environment.
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Physicians from Penn Presbyterian Medical Center’s division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology have recently launched a three-year pilot program to determine if artificial intelligence technology could improve precancerous polyp detection in screening colonoscopies.
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The $5 million commitment from Penn alum James H. Greene and his late wife, Marritje V. Greene will establish the Greene Family Lacrosse Fund, which will provide ongoing financial support for the men's and women's intercollegiate lacrosse programs at Penn.
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Composto is currently a professor of materials science and engineering, the Howell Family Faculty Fellow, and associate dean for undergraduate education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He will start his new role on July 1, 2023.
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A new study led by Penn Dental Medicine’s Kang Ko illuminates the process of rapid oral wound healing by identifying a distinct oral fibroblast progenitor that promotes mucosal healing.
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Jing (Jane) Li, Linus Y. Wong and Jialiang Zhang are recipients of the Best Paper Award at the 31st Association for Computing Machinery for their paper titled, “DONGLE: Direct FPGA-Orchestrated NVMe Storage for HLS.” The paper introduces a programming model and storage architecture to tackle big data challenges in fields like machine learning, data analytics and graph processing.
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The award is named in honor of the memory of Madison “Maddie” N. Magee, who graduated with both a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics and a master’s degree in bioengineering in 2021.
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The Libraries automatically acquires a wide range of diversity award-winning books for both adults and children. These are books that have won awards for their depictions of or significance to marginalized communities, often given by organizations representing those communities.
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A master’s student and inaugural Social Justice Scholar at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice, Horbrook has contributed research to the national conversation about the significance of historically Black colleges and universities. Now she is exploring the intersection of data and equity through an internship placement as she prepares to graduate.
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