In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The community refrigerator and accompanying pantry contributes to ongoing efforts to address food insecurity at the Boys & Girls Club of Chester.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
On May 1, Penn Dental Medicine and PA Coalition for Oral Health co-hosted a special event celebrating 70 years of community water fluoridation in Philadelphia and promoting water fluoridation as an essential public health measure.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Tessa Gadomski in the Steven Miller Conservation Laboratory was tasked with stabilizing the Ms. Codex 1950, a fragile book of handwritten Persian poetry. Its catalog entry lists its publication date as between 1474 and 1650; the codex itself is dated 1474.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
The 10-week immersive traveling research experience begins May 28 through August 2, and travels from Philadelphia to Gettysburg, Lancaster to Erie to explore the possibility of connecting across political difference through direct practice in Pennsylvania.
FULL STORY AT Paideia Program →
Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, professor of nursing and sociology and Penn Nursing Dean Emerita, will be one of three awardees of the 2024 National Humanism in Medicine Medal from The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the leading nonprofit dedicated to humanism in health care for all.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Amazon Web Services has granted Penn Engineering $700,000 to fund 10 Ph.D. student research projects in Penn Engineering’s ASSET (AI-Enabled Systems: Safe, Explainable and Trustworthy) Center advancing safe and responsible AI.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Penn LDI senior fellows Shazia Mehmood Siddique, Jaya Aysola, Michael O. Harhay, Harald Schmidt, Gary E. Weissman, and colleagues have conducted a systematic review of 63 studies published since 2011. They found evidence that health care algorithms can both improve and worsen racial and ethnic disparities for access, quality of care, and health outcomes for patients, regardless of their explicit inclusion of race or ethnicity as a variable.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Eric Stoopler, professor of oral medicine in Penn’s School of Dental Medicine, has been recognized by the American Academy of Oral Medicine as this year’s recipient of its Craig S. Miller Diamond Pin Award.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Ellen Caniglia, an assistant professor of epidemiology, and Enrique Schisterman, a professor and the chair of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, have received a $1 million grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to develop a system that would allow clinicians to weigh the results of two conflicting clinical trials and make an informed choice about how those findings should influence their patients’ treatment.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Sarah Kavanagh, director of Penn GSE’s Collaboratory for Teaching and Teacher Education presented at a conference dedicated to bolstering teaching ranks, “Elevating the Teaching Profession: A National Conversation on the Future of Teaching.”
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
