In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Presidential Assistant Professor of Music is among seven composers chosen to receive commissions for new musical works from the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress.
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Extreme outdoor temperatures are known to worsen chronic medical conditions such as cardiovascular, respiratory, and cerebrovascular diseases, such as strokes. A new study of almost 3 million geographically diverse Medicaid patients adds Type 2 diabetes to the list.
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The new Penn Medicine program offers education and employment opportunities to high school students interested in nursing careers.
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The Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, has received the Order of the Coif 2022 Book Award for “Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance.”
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Eric Stach, Deep Jariwala, and Troy Olsson earned this year’s Nokia Bell Labs Prize, with their proposal for “disruptive innovations that will define the next industrial revolution.”
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The Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Philosophy is the 2023 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award in Education for her study of the ethical sacrifices made by first-generation and low-income university students.
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Ren, a current postdoctoral trainee in the Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry was awarded the 2022 American Society for Microbiology Early Career Symposium Best Presentation Award. Ren’s research focuses on understanding how bacterial and fungal pathogens interact in the oral cavity to form a sticky plaque biofilm on teeth, which gives rise to severe childhood tooth decay.
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Jed Esty, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, discusses the radicalism and relevance of the T.S. Eliot poem.
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The assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, whose research interests lie at the intersection of new materials, surface science and solid-state devices for computing, sensing, opto-electronics and energy harvesting applications, is being honored “for breakthrough contributions in logic, memory and photonic devices from low-dimensional semiconductors.”
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A national curricular guide, award-winning publications, and data-driven policy approaches were among the contributions of faculty and researchers from Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) at national professional conferences in November.
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