In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Five winning proposals have been selected from a Fall 2022 ideas competition, a campus-wide initiative to make Penn more hospitable to birds by designing exterior window film for select buildings in order to reduce fatal collisions (or “bird strikes”).
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Recognized for addressing gender inequities through a technology training program that has graduated an estimated 15,000 marginalized women in Venezuela, the nongovernmental organization Aliadas en Cadena aims to replicate its model in other Latin American countries. Penn alums Victor Simon Gill and Amanda V. Lewis turned to a research team at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) led by Ezekiel Dixon-Román for a formal evaluation of Aliadas en Cadena’s effectiveness.
FULL STORY AT Social Work Today →
According to a new study published in Nursing Outlook, the journal of the American Academy of Nursing, chronic hospital nurse understaffing and poor hospital work environments that predated the COVID-19 pandemic largely explain the disruptions in nursing care seen during the pandemic and continuing today.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
A new study in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment by LDI Senior Fellows Rebecca Stewart, David Mandell, Steven Marcus, and colleagues surveyed drug treatment center leaders and found that changing beliefs about medications to treat opioid use disorder is the first step in treatment.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The J. Peter Skirkanich Professor in Bioengineering and in Electrical and Systems Engineering at Penn Engineering has been awarded for groundbreaking contributions to modeling and control of brain networks in the contexts of learning, disease and aging.
FULL STORY AT Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News →
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.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
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 →
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 →
