In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
According to a new study published in BMJ Open, proposed state legislation in Illinois would significantly improve nurse staffing in hospitals and likely save thousands of lives. The cost of improving nurse staffing could be offset by cost savings achieved by the impact of better nurse staffing on shorter length of hospital stays.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Penn Health-Tech’s Nemirovsky Engineering and Medicine Opportunity (NEMO) Prize awards $80,000 to support early-stage ideas joining engineering and medicine. This year, the NEMO Prize has been awarded to a team of researchers from Penn Engineering’s Department of Bioengineering, with a project that aims to develop a technology that can detect multiple cancer biomarkers in single cells from tumor biopsy samples.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Steppingstone Scholars’ new partnership with the Wharton Global Youth Program will offer socioeconomically underserved students in Philadelphia a pathway to college and business education.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
Five faculty members and alums of the Department of Architecture were honored last month by the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Institute of Architects with a 2021 Architectural Excellence Award. Among the firms from across Pennsylvania recognized for excellence in design, contributions to the profession of architecture, and commitment to the quality of the built environment were Erdy McHenry Architecture, ISA, DIGSAU, and KieranTimberlake, which are led by instructors or graduates of the Weitzman School.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Sydney Freeman Jr. is a Full Professor in the College of Education, Health & Human Sciences at the University of Idaho. He is an international authority on such topics as higher education leadership, higher education programs and leadership/administration, and graduate education. As a visiting scholar, Freeman will assist with an assessment of racial diversity initiatives for Penn faculty that are currently supported by Penn’s Provost’s Office.
FULL STORY AT Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty →
The award recognizes Murphy’s work in the UAE during her gap semester. She shares the award with Sari Heidenreich, Director of Programs–Oman and Kuwait for Do Bold, a human rights organization. Together they supported the repatriation of Sierra Leonean domestic workers who had been trafficked to and/or exploited in Oman.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
This year, Pennsylvania Hospital’s Cardiology department expanded to South Philadelphia at Constitution Health Plaza, joining other health services like PAH’s Primary Care—Delancey Internal Medicine—and Penn Medicine Urgent Care.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Wharton finance professor Luke Taylor spoke on social responsibility and shareholder obligation during a November 16 panel discussion titled “Redefining Corporate Governance,” part of the ongoing Beyond Business series, which explores the most complex and pressing issues affecting organizations and individuals around the world. “My view is that companies should not be maximizing shareholder value. Instead, they should be maximizing shareholder welfare. There’s a difference there because shareholders may care about more than just profits.”
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The School of Arts & Sciences has announced the establishment of a new Data Driven Discovery Initiative, a hub for data science education and research across the School. Bhuvnesh Jain and Greg Ridgeway are serving as the initiative’s inaugural co-directors.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, the Earle Hepburn Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, says “it is difficult not to draw broad societal implications from this verdict. But I think we should be careful here. Wisconsin law had very narrow self-defense inquiries, and the question of whether the jurors appropriately made those calls is a distinct question from what the law should be. This is all the more difficult because the state had to disprove self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt, and that standard is a high one.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
