In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
A 26-member delegation from Penn Dental Medicine including the dean, faculty, administrators, and alumni participated in a two-day conference on the topic of improving oral health care for persons with disabilities at the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine in Jerusalem last month.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
The Stroud Water Research Center has awarded the 2022 Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence to the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media for being a leading voice for climate change.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
The CCH Behavioral Health team comprises twelve full-time and four part-time staff members, including eleven social workers and four treating behavioral health clinicians.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Penn Dental Medicine postdoctoral student was awarded the award, enabling him to present at the ASP Biennial Meeting. His research explores photobiomodulation treatment after dental surgery, with an emphasis on calculating dose and related mechanisms to induce tissue regeneration.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Roberto is the Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Associate Professor of Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine and associate director with the Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics. She is awarded by the Obesity Society for her dedication to the growth and career development of her mentees.
FULL STORY AT Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics →
Reese is an NIH-funded transplant nephrologist and epidemiologist and a professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine, whose accomplishments include co-leading the first kidney and heart trials of transplanting organs from donors with hepatitis C virus infection into uninfected recipients, followed by treatment with antiviral agents.
FULL STORY AT Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics →
Zena Harrison joined Mercy Philadelphia Hospital—now HUP Cedar—as a clinical dietitian in 2016. After Mercy became HUP Cedar in the spring of 2021, Harrison and her manager at the time joined discussions with Sofia Carreno, HUP’s nursing professional development specialist for community engagement, about bringing the HUP food pantry to the Cedar community. This planning is still underway.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A new installation of objects from the Penn Museum on the HUP Pavilion’s ground floor are artifacts showing some of the ways humans around the world have addressed healing, nourishment, and protection from illness from the ancient past to the present.
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In an episode of her podcast series, “Leading Diversity at Work,” Wharton dean Erika James speaks with Lori Tauber Marcus, a Wharton graduate, corporate board member, and executive coach, and David Rivera, a professor of counselor education at Queens College-City University of New York, whose research focuses on cultural competency development, the effect of discrimination on the well-being of people from underrepresented groups, and microaggressions.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
A new study from LDI senior fellow Eugenia South and colleagues examines whether neighborhoods with greater privilege and more tree cover have less firearm violence across six U.S cities. Researchers believe that tree cover could reduce stress, mitigate intense summer heat, and encourage positive social engagement which collectively could decrease conflict and violence.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
