In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Journal of Obstetric Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing published a special series that detail best practices for the handling, pricing and donating of supplemental breastmilk for newborns. For infants in the NICU, or for mothers with compromised or inadequate amounts of breastmilk, donor milk banks are becoming increasingly popular.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing →
To cap his tenure and honor his leadership as Vice Provost and Director of Libraries, a $3 million dollar endowment gift has been made from the Penn Libraries Board of Overseers and the Orrery Society Council in H. Carton Rogers III's name.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
The three students competed against 34 teams in the 14th annual moot court competition that focuses on LGBT legal issues.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
Three graduate students won both people's choice and official jury iDesign Prize for Chipper, a new pet food business venture. One unlikely protein source is the key factor for a reduced footprint on land and water resources, introducing a sustainable and ecologically-conscious product to the pet food market.
FULL STORY AT Penn Design Weekly →
Sarah Jewett approaches genocide studies as a criminology graduate student empirically and subjectively. Trained in fine arts, Jewett has tailored her studies to contextualize, understand and predict human behavior by applying objective statistical analysis to organize the mechanisms of genocide.
FULL STORY AT OMNIA →
A list of awards won for excellence in teaching at the Graduate School of Education and the School of Nursing.
FULL STORY AT Almanac →
A fascination with Judas Iscariot drives Ph.D. candidate Mariah Junglan Min to mine texts from the Middle Ages for history and details on the mysterious Biblical figure.
FULL STORY AT OMNIA →
The associate professor of oral medicine and director of the postdoctoral oral medicine program at Penn Dental School was installed as president for 2018-19 at the recent AAOM Annual Meeting.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Preclinical research published in PLOS One shows potential for decreasing the risk of heart failure in Friedreich's ataxia patients, and will move forward with trials to determine whether raising HDL levels, or "good cholesterol" by administering statins will reduce their cardiovascular risk.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
At an event sponsored by the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation, author, surgeon, and professor Atul Gawande characterized the present era in health care as a pivotal point in history. He focused much of his remarks on an innovative approach to the clinical planning and execution of care for patients with serious illness—something that has been one of medicine’s most unsettled areas.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
