In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The 20th-century history of photography in Japan has disproportionately emphasized the work of male photographers. To challenge this, scholars have been illuminating the role of Japanese women photographers throughout the decades.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
An innovative postpartum preeclampsia prevention intervention created by Perelman School of Medicine physicians Adi Hirshberg and Sindhu Srinivas, Maternal Mortality Prevention Innovation, has received a Department of Health and Human Services Racial Equity in Postpartum Care Challenge Award.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Annenberg School for Communication professor Julia Ticona spoke to domestic gig workers about the scams they face on the platforms where they find work and how they help one another avoid them.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
Eleven nursing professionals with ties to Penn Nursing will be inducted as 2022 Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing. Three are current Penn faculty, with two of them being alums; the additional eight are all Penn Nursing alumni.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
With the pandemic-fueled demand for more workplace flexibility, could the four-day workweek become the norm in American business? Wharton experts don’t hold out hope for change.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
A Penn study finds that inhibiting a key enzyme alleviates fear-memory behavior associated with traumatic memories, and maybe used to treat disorders such as PTSD.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
One key part of the Inflation Reduction Act is the section on the changes to the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit design. This section fixes issues with the Medicare Part D design that were highlighted by a team at Penn led by professor of medicine and CHIBE associate director Jalpa Doshi.
FULL STORY AT Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics →
Vijay Kumar, Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering, and Shu Yang, Joseph Bordogna Professor and Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, played critical roles in the development of a report from Engineering Research Visioning Alliance which delineates research priorities the engineering research community can pursue to address climate change.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
The funding will support clinical research of new telehealth methods for better cancer care, under the reignited White House Cancer Moonshot initiative.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
People with multiple chronic conditions require complex care management and often experience significant challenges when transitioning from hospital to home. An innovative clinical pathway developed by clinicians, community partners and researchers at Penn Nursing holds promise to improve health equity and support a growing population experiencing adverse outcomes resulting from complex chronic illness, poverty, and structural inequality.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
