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  • Featured Books: Women’s History Month

    Additional materials to celebrate Women’s History Month are on view in the Penn Libraries special collections: “Marian Anderson: A Singer’s Journey” and “Women Poets of the Renaissance” are collected in special editions in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. “Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica” is also part of the Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →

  • ‘Do you have a food sensitivity?’ and other questions answered

    Food sensitivities and intolerances are not food allergies, according to Nitin Ahuja, an assistant professor of gastroenterology. While both are some weird or seemingly inappropriate reactions to what we eat, allergies are a response in the body involving the immune system and usually a protein. The effects of a food allergy are instantaneous. Food intolerances and sensitivities occur simply when the body does not properly digest a food.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Shriya Karam awarded Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship

    The fourth-year undergraduate in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, who was named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar in 2022, has been recognized for her work by the top category in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program, which awards about $3 million in fellowships to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines annually.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • Penn Nursing Center joins with 50 organizations to curb infodemic of health and science misinformation and disinformation

    The creation of The Coalition for Trust in Health & Science includes Penn Nursing’s NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health, and will unite leading organizations from across the entire health ecosystem to advance trust and factual science-based decision-making.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • DVCEE Leadership Institutes encourage students to speak up

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →

  • Penn Athletics receives big boost to men’s and women’s lacrosse programs

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics →

  • Three Penn Medicine faculty members named Hastings Center Fellows

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Testing the power of AI to better detect colon polyps

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Russell J. Composto named faculty co-director of Penn First Plus (P1P)

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Almanac →

  • Penn Dental Medicine study illuminates wound healing

    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.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →