In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The gift to Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine from alums Josh and Marjorie Harris will bolster efforts to recruit applicants from diverse backgrounds, especially those who live within the Philadelphia region, to Penn’s pathway and fellowship programs in both clinical medicine and biomedical research.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) and the Abramson Family Center for Nursing Excellence has announced the inaugural cohort for the new Diversity Nurse Leader Fellowship Program.
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The three-year, $600,000 grant is providing patients the opportunity to get care they otherwise could not afford. To date, a total of 316 Penn Dental Medicine patients have received treatment through support from the grant.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Nonprofits and charitable organizations can increase contributions simply by offering multiple-choice options that signal to potential donors what is appropriate to give. Wharton’s Alice Moon shares the results of her latest study.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
In “Groundwork: A History of the Renaissance Picture” Kim asks viewers to start from the ground and consider it central and the figure second.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
But are the payments going to the right hospitals—that is, those focused on serving low-income patients? To find out if federal funds go to hospitals that serve low-income patients, LDI senior fellow Paula Chatterjee, and other researchers conducted an in-depth analysis of the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital program. Federal statute outlines criteria for identifying hospitals that must receive payments, but little is known about how states allocate payments outside of those criteria—or what impact they have on access to care for low-income Americans.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Penn Medicine led the largest global effort to identify and predict glioblastoma tumor boundaries without compromising patient privacy.
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Danielle Cavalcanto, associate director of Interiors with the Perelman School of Medicine, was recognized for instilling sustainable factors in her interior designs, frequently matching inventory in storage to newly configured workspaces.
FULL STORY AT Penn Sustainability →
Penn Engineers used a counterintuitive algorithmic strategy called “metadynamics” to find rare low-energy canyons in glassy materials. Their breakthrough suggests the algorithm may have a wide range of useful scientific applications, potentially speeding up the pace of computational protein folding and eliminating the need for large data sets in machine learning.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Azucena (Susy) Villalobos, a nurse in the surgical intensive care unit and master’s student at Penn Nursing, was inspired to join NAHN’s local chapter “by the wide breadth of work that these Latinx nurses were doing for their communities.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
