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  • A memorable donation: The Lawrence Robert Klein 1980 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences medal

    The Department of Economics has been gifted Lawrence Robert Klein’s 1980 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences medal. Klein was awarded the medal for the creation of econometric models and their application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies. He was a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1958 until his retirement in 1991.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Penn’s ‘Hippocampus Gang’ maps possible paths of Alzheimer’s

    A team of researchers at the Penn Memory Center (PMC) is striving to understand the networks of the medial temporal lobe in people living with Alzheimer’s. Led by PMC co-director Dave Wolk, a team of Penn researchers published a new study, “Medial Temporal Lobe Networks in Alzheimer’s Disease: Structural and Molecular Vulnerabilities,” which highlights the impact of Alzheimer’s disease on the anterior-temporal and posterior-medial networks.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Memory Center →

  • The 2022 Ecotopian Toolmakers

    The 2022 Ecotopian Toolmakers for Delaware Watershed Justice will be featured in public workshops at ISM and in the Museum’s community gallery exhibit, as well as in a fall 2022 workshop at Penn for a print Catalog for Ecotopian Tools and companion digital exhibit.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Program in Environmental Humanities →

  • SP2’s new grant-funded partnership with the Office of Gender-Based Violence at Arizona State University

    In the fall, SP2 will be one of 14 universities working to improve the public health response to intimate partner violence by expanding SurvivorLink through the Public Health AmeriCorps program.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →

  • New report calls for sweeping reorganization of nursing home industry

    A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus study calls for a sweeping reorganization of the U.S. nursing home industry and its regulation. The report cites decades of inadequate resident care along with management shortcomings that led to the catastrophic levels of mortality experienced in nursing homes during the pandemic.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Piyali Bhattacharya named Abrams Artist-In-Residence in Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing

    Bhattacharya is a fiction and nonfiction writer whose short stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and National Geographic, among other publications. She is the editor of the anthology “Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion,” which received an Independent Publisher Book Award.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Penn Global awards over $1 million to advance global faculty research initiatives at Penn

    The Penn Global Research and Engagement Grant Program is introducing 21 new faculty-led research and engagement projects that bring together leading scholars and practitioners across the University and beyond to develop new insight on global issues in key countries and regions around the world.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Global →

  • Society of Critical Care Medicine award for Martha A. Q. Curley

    The Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing and Professor of Nursing at Penn Nursing will receive the 2022 Asmund S. Laerdal Memorial Lecture Award from the Society of Critical Care Medicine during its annual congress.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Difference Makers: No ordinary security guard

    Lawrence Pratt, a security officer in the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC) trauma bay, does everything he can to support distressed family members and patients. As a Level 1 trauma center, PPMC sees some of the most severe cases from across the city, and with the surge in gun violence, that means many gunshot victims. Pratt lets family members know he’s been in their shoes, living in West Philadelphia and having lost loved ones of his own to gun violence.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Penn Libraries’ Stephan Loewentheil on the path of a special collection

    The antiquarian, founder and president of the 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop, and member of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries Board of Advisors connects people and institutions to culturally significant books, manuscripts, and photographs. “My scope and depth of experience developed over 40 years in this field have given me a keen perspective on what is significant,” he says. “This includes an appreciation for an item’s intellectual importance and its appropriateness for a particular collection, as well as its rarity and value.”

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →