In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Under new leadership with Penn Medicine’s Kit Delgado, the Nudge Unit focuses on designing slight pushes that help people make better, healthier, or just more-optimal decisions has helped increase exercise, improve prescription practices, and improve health screening rates.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
This winter, a ceremony was held to unveil a historical marker from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission outside the Palestra, honoring the historical significance of Penn’s “Cathedral of College Basketball,” which was built in 1927.
FULL STORY AT Almanac →
The Venture Lab, a collaboration between Penn Engineering, the Wharton School, and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, hosts a Startup Challenge each year, which provides a comprehensive platform to help Penn student entrepreneurs and their teams develop and launch their businesses, and awards $300,000 to launch their ideas into reality.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Penn Medicine will allot portions of the grant to four other institutions to collectively create state-of-the-art online courses for genetic counselors. This grant will position genetic counselors to advance research for implementing genomic information into clinical practice.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The new Penn Medicine program offers education and employment opportunities to high school students interested in nursing careers.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
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.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
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.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
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.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
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.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
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.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
