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  • COVID-19 misinformation: The flip side of ‘knowledge is power’

    Misinformation causing public health challenges is not a new phenomenon. A study by Anish Agarwal, assistant professor of emergency medicine and the deputy director of the Center for Digital Health in the Perelman School of Medicine, and Sharath Chandra Guntuku, assistant professor in computer and information science in Penn Engineering will use machine learning to analyze social media posts will uncover actionable commonalities across different racial groups and across urban vs. rural environments.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Gift of Life Donor Care Center opens at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

    As the first intensive care unit in the Northeast U.S. exclusively dedicated for deceased organ donors, the Center has access to advanced medicine, tools, and technology that will maximize the impact of each donor’s life-saving gifts.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Penn Libraries: Gift of Kenneth and Joyce Robbins collection of South Asia history

    Kenneth and Joyce Robbins have amassed a collection of more than 100,000 items relating to the history of South Asia, Africans in the greater Indian Ocean world, and the Jewish diaspora in India and beyond. This year, they designated the Penn Libraries as the recipient of the Kenneth and Joyce Robbins Collection of South Asia History in their estate planning.

    FULL STORY AT Almanac →

  • Improving police response to protests

    The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice has released recommendations based on a Sentinel Event Review of the Seattle PD’s response to protests in 2020.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • Exploring equity barriers before a firearm safety trial

    When evaluating efforts to implement evidence-based interventions, ensuring that implementation is equitable across populations is important, but little guidance has been offered with regard to how to do so within the context of implementation trials. Before launching a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial focused on firearm safety promotion in pediatric primary care, an interdisciplinary research team including investigators from Penn developed a five-step engagement process to prospectively ground the trial in an equity lens.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Study shows impact of report cards on opioid prescribing

    In a recent study, research professor Aileen Rothbard of Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice mailed opioid prescribing report cards to Medicaid providers in Philadelphia, and found that there was a larger reduction in opioid prescribing among Philadelphia Medicaid providers than those in surrounding counties after report cards were mailed.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →

  • How the Learning Enrichment Team is bringing wellness to the Libraries through ‘exploration and serendipity’

    Cultivating spaces and creating programming that address the needs of the whole student is the aim of the Penn Libraries Learning Enrichment team at the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →

  • Pride Alliance celebrates LGBTQ History Month with Pride Celebration

    The Penn Dental Medicine Pride Alliance held its fourth annual Pride Celebration to celebrate its LGBTQIA+ community, and awarded the Annual LGBTQIA+ Advocacy Awards. This year recognized two staff members, two faculty members, and one student for their efforts to support diversity and inclusion within the school

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • OMNIA Q & A: Symposium ethnohistory workshop

    Young scholars from Latin America discuss their experience at a three-week workshop on “Dispossessions in the Americas,” hosted by The Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • A. Brooks Bowden receives prestigious Early Career Award for research on education costs

    The The Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Early Career Awards highlight researchers whose work is both rigorous and relevant to educational practice. Bowden, an assistant professor of education policy at Penn GSE, focuses on strategies to overcome obstacles like hunger, housing insecurity, and mental health problems that prevent children from getting the most out of school.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →