In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Long Kwan Metthew Lam has been awarded a two-year inaugural postdoctoral fellowship through the newly established Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine.
FULL STORY AT Penn Vet →
Awarded by The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at Penn, the McHarg Fellowship provides $75,000 to support an emerging voice in landscape architecture and its related fields. Robb’s work lies at intersection of Indigenous sovereignty, climate change, and the energy transition in rural North America.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Wharton’s Stephanie Creary talks to Tina Opie and Beth Livingston, two management professors who have written a new book on how to tear down the barriers that prevent women and marginalized groups from thriving in business.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The three Penn Medicine projects receiving grants are: Healing at Home, system that uses an artificial intelligence-guided chatbot to provide 24/7 assistance to new mothers during the “fourth trimester” after delivery; Pregnancy Early Access Center (PEACE), a model for providing care for early pregnancy, including for miscarriages; and increasing access to buprenorphine and other substance use treatment services for people of color.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The associate professor of ruminant nutrition has received a $995,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to lead an interdisciplinary team of animal and data scientists to enhance dairy herd sustainability and moderate environmental impacts.
FULL STORY AT Penn Vet →
Healing at Home provides vital support for new moms at home, especially during the “fourth trimester” or those first six weeks after birth. The program’s texting service—a chatbot—allows them to still remain connected with their care providers. To make communication easier, its automated chatbot, named Penny, uses “natural language processing,” allowing patients to ask questions and receive answers in a natural way.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
To achieve meaningful integration in health care, providers need to communicate and collaborate beyond their immediate area of practice or specialty, and interaction among caregivers and their work units. Health care must leverage knowledge about how social networks operate across all levels of an organization and design care to improve relational processes within and across these networks.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
This month’s featured materials show some of the many ideas and values food can represent in cultural analysis and storytelling.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
The associate professor in Penn Engineering’s Department of Computer and Information Science is collaborating with an international team of researchers that will work to unify the design of software and hardware components in cyber-physical transportation systems.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
76ers managing partners and philanthropists Josh and Marjorie Harris plan to invest $1M in companies funded by the Penn Medicine—Wharton Fund for Health to fund businesses that work to improve the lives of Philadelphians through creative ideas to tackle social determinants of health.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
