In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
CareConnect is a partnership between Penn’s 24/7 virtual urgent care, Penn Medicine OnDemand, and a team of substance use navigators. Fifty-five percent of CareConnect’s patients with opioid use disorder had an active prescription for treatment a month after first engaging with the program.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Police officers are commonly found in emergency departments, but hospital policy is lacking in regards to their interactions with patients.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Penn’s second annual DivE In (Diversity and Equity Initiative) weekend focused on improving diversity in fields that are related to the study of the mind, such as psychology, neuroscience, biology, linguistics, and sociology, and placing a specific focus on facilitating doctoral applications.
FULL STORY AT OMNIA →
Researchers at the Biologically Inspired Engineering Systems (BIOLines) Laboratory in the Department of Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have recently developed a new variation of the organ-on-a-chip: one that replicates the interface between maternal tissue and the cells of the placenta at the critical moments in early pregnancy when the embryo is implanting in the uterus.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The 2022 Kanter Tritsch Medal in Architecture and the 2022 Witte-Sakamoto Family Medal in City and Regional Planning are two of three professional honors bestowed annually by the Weitzman School of Design. They will be presented at a ceremony which raises funds for student scholarships on Feb. 23, 2023.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Penn Radiation Oncology has been working with colleagues in Botswana since 2011, where the cervical cancer mortality rate is 10 times higher than the U.S.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Research from Wharton’s Hummy Song suggests a new strategy for staffing high-performing work teams by focusing on the relationships among members and not just their skills.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The drug was initially targeted for COVID-19 research as part of an effort to test older, previously approved drugs for potential benefit against the virus. Compared with a placebo, fenofibrate had no significant effect either on severity scores or death from any cause, among other metrics. Researchers say there could be a number of potential explanations for the drug’s failure to achieve the same results in humans that it did in laboratory cells.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A 26-member delegation from Penn Dental Medicine including the dean, faculty, administrators, and alumni participated in a two-day conference on the topic of improving oral health care for persons with disabilities at the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine in Jerusalem last month.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
The Stroud Water Research Center has awarded the 2022 Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence to the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media for being a leading voice for climate change.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
