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  • Weitzman students earn ASLA awards for designs in Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico

    Two projects from students in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Department of City & Regional Planning have been recognized by The American Society of Landscape Architecture. “Arboretum Within Wetland”⁠ proposes an immersive experience for visitors to the wetlands along the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., and “A New Central District and Balanced Community”⁠ is a sustainable housing solution for a landscape-prone site in Puerto Rico.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • APPC aims adult civics education programs at higher ed, the military, and business

    For Constitution Day, the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics at the Annenberg Public Policy Center has expanded its civics education mission from K-12 schools to adult civics education, with funding The funding is being provided through an initiative called the Civic Mission of the Nation.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • Brian Ford recognized with AAOMS award for faculty development

    The assistant professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Penn Dental Medicine, was recognized by the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons as a recipient of its 2022 Faculty Educator Development Award.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • Y-Prize 2022-2023: Solar-powered aerial vehicles and physics-informed neural networks

    This year’s category is solar-powered aerial vehicle technology, which uses only sunlight to create lift force, and physics-informed neural networks, algorithms that can utilize physical principles to infer unknowns.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • Research on fluorine-free fuel cells receives 2.2M from the Department of Energy

    Penn Engineering’s Karen Winey has been awarded a Department of Energy grant that will provide $2.2 million over three years to fund the design, synthesis, and study of hydrocarbon-based proton exchange membranes to mimic the relevant features of fluorine-based polymer membranes, which comprise long-lasting fuel cells, in anticipation of proposed fluorine bans.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • Sophia Rosenfeld appointed Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North

    The Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History has been appointed Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North by the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Anita L. Allen receives The Hastings Center’s 2022 Bioethics Founders’ Award

    The Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy is awarded for outstanding contributions to law and philosophy and to their practical applications in medicine, science, and public affairs.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • Wharton welcomes two new majors and concentrations: DEI and ESGB

    The two official curricular designations are Environmental, Social and Governance Factors for Business (ESGB), and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). Both ESGB and DEI are available to function as either a concentration at the undergraduate level or a major at the MBA level, and will see its first students graduate in May 2025.

    FULL STORY AT Wharton Stories →

  • Elaine Redding Brinster Prize awarded for discovery of genetic basis for pair of neurological diseases

    The Penn Institute for Regenerative Medicine selected Huda Zoghbi as the second winner of the award recognizing discoveries with impacts on biomedicine for her work pinpointing the underlying, genetic causes of a pair of neurological diseases.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Michael Mitchell received 2022 CAREER Award

    The J. Peter and Geri Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in the Department of Bioengineering is one of this year’s recipients of the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, given to early-career faculty researchers who demonstrate the potential to be role models in their field and invest in the outreach and education of their work.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →