In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
PPMC’s latest destination is Botswana, where members will partner with volunteer medical teams to donate their time and resources, through the Botswana-UPenn Partnership between Penn’s Center for Global Health and the University of Botswana.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Julie Sochalski, associate professor, associate dean for Academic Programs, and the Class of 1965 25th Reunion Term Chair at Penn Nursing, received the 2018 American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Lois Capps Policy Luminary Award, on Sunday, October 28, during the Academic Nursing Leadership Conference in Washington, D. C.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing →
This year, the University of Pennsylvania Hospital System’s 25-Year Club welcomed 68 new members, bringing the total membership to almost 750 employees.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Wharton’s Marshall Meyer discusses his concerns about the Chinese economy. “The underlying issues are profound,” he says, describing the country’s high debt, trade friction, and resulting psychological effects on the public.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
How do we explain the body's reaction to fearful situations? When faced with a perceived threat or a scary situation, the fight or flight response kicks in, and the brain’s hippocampus and prefrontal cortex regions help us decide our next move: Is this something that I should be genuinely fearful of or not? The “emotional” part of our brain communicates with the higher-level “thinking” part of our brain to make the final call.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Sarah Barringer Gordon, the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law, details the history of the Mountain Meadows massacre of 1857, when a group of Mormon settlers in southeastern Utah ambushed and killed a wagon train of Methodist migrants.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
Bridgette Brawner, associate professor in Penn Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health, has won the 2018 Richard L. Sowell Article of the Year Award from the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
A study published in Molecular Therapy finds that inconsistency in the molecular makeup of vectors is a key concern in scaling up gene therapy production for patients.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Penn Dental Medicine and the Academy for Advancing Leadership have partnered to develop an online, asynchronous certificate program for part-time and transitioning faculty members in dental and allied dental education.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
The $1.25 million gift from the Harry T. Wilks Foundation will lead research and programming at The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, where environmental and social scientists join with with planners, designers, policy makers, and communities to develop practical, innovative ways of improving the quality of life in the places most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
