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  • Barbara Savage wins two new book awards

    Savage, a professor in Africana studies, is a finalist for the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award for her latest work, “Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar,” which has also garnered the 2024 American Book Award.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences

  • Learn more about Penn’s Class of 2028

    Penn Admissions provides a snapshot of the applicant pool for the Class of 2028, and some data on the incoming first-year students.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Admissions

  • James Corner earns 2024 IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award in Landscape Architecture

    The practice professor emeritus and past chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture has been awarded by the International Federation of Landscape Architects for his influence in a range of work from built projects to theoretical works, writings, and teaching activities.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • Sarah Jackson and Desmond Patton awarded NSF grant to create cross-institutional program supporting STEM researchers from underrepresented backgrounds

    A partnership between Penn, Northwestern University, and New York University aims to provide more opportunities for historically underrepresented researchers conducting critical technology research.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication

  • Penn Nursing launches ‘Nurses for the Vote, Chart the Future’ initiative

    The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing has launched “Nurses for the Vote, Chart the Future,” an initiative aimed at increasing voter registration and civic engagement among students and the community, in partnership with the Office of Government and Community Affairs.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Penn Nursing’s Rebecca R.S. Clark named 2024 Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing

    Clark is an assistant professor of perinatal nursing, midwifery, and women’s health in the Department of Family and Community Health and a nurse scientist at Pennsylvania Hospital.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Annenberg Classroom film explores 8th Amendment ban on ‘cruel and unusual punishment’

    Produced in partnership with The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, “The Eighth Amendment: Cruel and Unusual Punishment” is among the over 65 free, nonpartisan short films available to educators, students, and families on Annenberg Classroom in advance of Constitution Day, Sept. 17.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center

  • Penn Nursing’s Sharon Y. Irving receives 2024 National League for Nursing Isabel Hampton Robb Award

    The Miriam Stirl Endowed Term Chair in Nutrition in the Department of Family and Community Health will receive the 2024 National League for Nursing’s Isabel Hampton Robb Award for Outstanding Leadership in Clinical Practice.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Energy justice leader to receive Carnot Prize

    The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy has awarded the Carnot Prize to Jacqueline Patterson, founder and executive director of The Chisholm Legacy Project, a resource hub for Black frontline climate justice leadership.

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center

  • Melding AI and RNA: $18M NSF AIRFoundry to revolutionize RNA research

    The U.S. National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence-driven RNA Foundry, led by the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Puerto Rico and supported by an $18-million, six-year grant, will run a “BioFoundry” to create molecules and nanoparticles. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering