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  • Penn4C announces awardees for community-led partnership grants

    Penn Community Collaboratory for Co-Creation, an initiative led jointly by Penn’s School of Nursing and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, has awarded funding to five new research projects that address social justice through designing and implementing solutions to improve health, well-being, and safety.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Remembering Minnie Hogan Clemens

    Penn Nursing’s “This Week in the Archives” highlights Minnie Hogan Clemens (Dorchester), who became the first Black student to attend the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s Nurse Training School in 1888.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Improving quality of life and sleep in people with memory problems without using drugs

    A new Penn Nursing study shows promising results in improving the quality of life and sleep quality in individuals living with memory problems, and explores the efficacy of a nonpharmacological approach in a trial known as the Healthy Patterns Sleep Program.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Hilaria Supa Huamán to receive 2024 Penn Nursing Renfield Foundation Award for Global Women’s Health

    Supa Huamán, the director of Mosoq Pakari Sumaq Kawsay (New Dawn for Good Living) Healing Center, is a Peruvian politician and human rights activist. She is awarded for her lifelong dedication in advocating for the rights and well-being of Indigenous women in Peru.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Wendy A. Henderson appointed a Presidential Distinguished Professor

    The Gail and Ralph Reynolds President’s Distinguished Professor will serve as a faculty member in Penn Nursing’s Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Optimal sex education programming for gay, bisexual, and queer adolescents

    A new study by LDI senior fellow and School of Nursing assistant professor Dennis Flores surveys gay, bisexual, and queer male students to inform policymaking.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • Announcing the 2023 Amy Gutmann Leadership Scholars

    This endowed program—created from a $2M gift to Penn Nursing by former Penn president Amy Gutmann and her husband Michael Doyle—provides financial aid for exemplary undergraduate and graduate nursing students, supplementing their education with tailored learning to help shape nurse leaders who deliver exceptional evidence-based care, design research, inform policy, spark innovation, and advocate for social justice worldwide.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Penn Collaboratory to fund ten new pilot studies on aging

    The Penn Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory for Healthy Aging (PennAITech)—made up of Penn’s School of Nursing, the Perelman School of Medicine, and other departments across the University—focuses on identifying developing, evaluating, commercializing, and disseminating innovative technology and artificial intelligence methods/software to support aging.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Supporting the well-being of LGBTQ+ adolescents and their families

    Penn Nursing’s Dalmacio Dennis Flores, assistant professor of nursing in the Department of Family and Community Health, has been awarded a 2023 grant from the Hillman Innovations in Care program. The $600,000 grant will be used to expand a Penn Nursing-led program that supports the well-being of LGBTQ+ adolescents and their families.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Hillman grant for Penn Nursing professor to study virtual reality and loneliness

    Penn Nursing, Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative, and New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing have been awarded 2023 grant from the Hillman Emergent Innovation: Serious Illness and End of Life program to study the use of social virtual reality in enhancing the treatment experience and reducing loneliness in people undergoing hemodialysis.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News