In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Women of Color Awards are given in recognition of the individuals who have conscientiously endeavored to increase respect for women of color at Penn and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and the Delaware Valley community.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
Researchers will test an emerging form of radiotherapy treatment with shorter duration, under a second, compared to several minutes with conventional radiation and frequency.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Penn Medicine Connects employs a double-pronged effort to follow up on patients who go home after discharge from all six Penn Medicine hospitals. Within 24 hours after discharge, every patient receives an automated call. The idea for Penn Medicine Connects is to bring post-discharge calls—previously handled independently by departments and service lines—under one umbrella, for quality control, cost savings, and optimized results.
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The new state-of-the-art Evolv Technology security system is the most recent initiative launched by the Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH) Workplace Safety Task Force, which develops safety strategies for PAH and also collaborates with other Penn Medicine security groups in monthly meetings to promote workplace safety across the Health System.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
This year, the theme “Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope,” offers a salute to today’s frontline workers and caregivers and recognizes a storied history of women around the world practicing as healers, and Penn Libraries offers reading, watching, and listening selections.
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The Maryland All-Payer Model (MDAPM), developed in a partnership between the state and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, introduced global hospital budgets statewide. Instead of billing specified amounts for each item and service, hospitals were given high-level annual targets for expenditures and revenue, and flexibility in allocating resources. MDAPM is estimated to have saved $916 million over projected spending through 2017.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The award recognizes Hynd’s deep research in partial differential equations and will support a yearlong research visit to the Mittag-Lefler Institute where he will investigate the Blaschke-Lebesgue problem.
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Barracks is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Media at Risk and lecturer in the Annenberg School’s undergraduate program. The Black & Bold Awards, presented by the Virginia-based nonprofit Diversity Richmond, celebrate leadership in the Black LGBTQ+ community.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
Wharton real estate professor Joseph Gyourko says it’s too early to predict exactly how the demand for office space will decline because commercial leases generally last five to seven years. But it’s clear that when those leases finally expire, the market will not be the same.
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The Martin and Pamela Winter Infectious Disease Fellowships will support Khabadire Tlotleng and Matthew Martinez, two early-career biomedical graduate students who are conducting research related to the biology of infectious disease.
FULL STORY AT Penn Vet →
