In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
If the United States were to have a 28th Amendment to the Constitution, what should it be? The question was posed last fall to hundreds of Philadelphia-area 4th and 5th grade students by the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement in its Citizenship Challenge essay contest.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
CAR T cell therapy can be reworked to treat a form of the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis according to a preclinical study from the Perelman School of Medicine.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Center for Architectural Conservation at Weitzman has received one of 11 grants awarded by the National Park Service to develop a model documentation and conservation management plan for the Route 66 landscape in Tucumcari, New Mexico.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Three students at Penn Dental Medicine traveled to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Ein Kerem Campus for a two-week dental immersion program as part of Penn Dental Medicine’s International Dental Student Exchange Program.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Penn parents and educators can now browse and borrow more than 1,500 award-winning and notable books for children and young adults, all highlighting diverse characters and experiences, as part of a new initiative at the Penn Libraries.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
Access services associates are responsible for making sure patients are scheduled to see the right provider at the right time. As Penn Medicine’s largest call center, the Access Center staff are often considered the “front door” and first point of contact for patients.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
In recognition of a pioneering, in-depth analysis of the roles of racism and Americanization in the history of social work, the SP2 associate professor and her and co-author have been awarded the 2023 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize by Social Service Review for their article “To ‘Elevate, Humanize, Christianize, Americanize’: Social Work, White Supremacy, and the Americanization Movement, 1880–1930.”
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
The gift, from the Linda Ye and Robin Ren Family Foundation, will fund the construction of a state-of-the-art nuclear magnetic resonance facility, which includes a suite, instrumentation lab and office, in the Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology building.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Penn Engineering’s ASSET Center aims to make AI-enabled systems more safe, explainable, and trustworthy. ASSET’s first funding collaboration is with Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine and the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics, which have launched a series of seed grants that will fund research at the intersection of AI and healthcare.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
LDI senior fellow Margo Brooks Carthon discusses her team’s expansion of the hospital post-discharge safety net program that grew out of their research. The original program originated from a 2018 pilot research grant from Penn LDI, Penn Medicine’s Center for Health Care Innovation, and Penn Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
