In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The architectural and urban historian whose teaching and research center on the social aspects of design and how it affects urban communities, will join the Weitzman School as Presidential Associate Professor and the inaugural Matt and Erika Nord Director of the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites.
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The Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought has received the 2022 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion from the American Academy of Religion.
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A new research initiative from Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute focuses on a longstanding disparity in the rate of chronic kidney disease that is almost four times higher among Black Americans than white Americans. The Penn LDI Research Initiative on Improving Management of Chronic Kidney Disease, the effort will involve Penn LDI senior fellows and research teams.
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The new four-year curriculum aims is innovative approach to teaching students how to effectively communicate with, support, and care for patients with serious illness through simulation-based learning.
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The assistant professor in bioengineering has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for researching therapies that use engineered cells to treat diseases, infections and chronic illnesses.
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In the latest effort from Bird Friendly Penn, a campus-wide initiative to make Penn more hospitable, Weitzman students are invited to create signage for Penn buildings to help birds steer clear and minimize collisions. The competition is open to all current Weitzman students. Submissions are due by midnight (Eastern time) on Monday, November 7, and the complete guidelines can be found on the Disrupt the Reflection website.
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To address the discrepancy in scientific rigor—such as poor study design, small sample sizes and improper assessment of the significance of data—the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has launched the Initiative to Improve Education in the Principles of Rigorous Research.
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During an ongoing renovation at the Folger Shakespeare Library from late 2021 to 2023, a selection of 29 of the library’s pre-modern manuscripts are being cared for by Libraries’ Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts.
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The National Science Foundation’s Research Traineeship Program’s latest series of grants are going toward programs focused on artificial intelligence and quantum information science and engineering. Chinedum Osuji has received one of these grants to apply data science and machine learning to the field of soft materials, alongside co-PIs Russell Composto, Zahra Fakhraai, Paris Perdikaris, and Andrea Liu.
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The assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics and principal investigator of the Kathy Liu Lab in the Perelman School of Medicine specifically studies enzymes that modify RNA in the body’s cells that can impact human disease.
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