In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
76ers managing partners and philanthropists Josh and Marjorie Harris plan to invest $1M in companies funded by the Penn Medicine—Wharton Fund for Health to fund businesses that work to improve the lives of Philadelphians through creative ideas to tackle social determinants of health.
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A grant from the National Cancer Institute will build on Penn’s pioneering role in the use of intraoperative imaging technology that makes it easier and safer to remove tumors on or in the lungs.
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Expanding its outreach within the community, Penn Dental Medicine will partner with Woods Services to provide dental treatment for its clients and residents of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, including children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and acquired brain injuries.
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Her book, “Winners and Losers: The Psychology of Foreign Trade,” reveals how people’s orientations toward in-groups and out-groups influence how they think about trade with foreign countries.
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Sleep health is increasingly recognized as important to overall health, and sleep disturbances and disorders are clinical problems that require diagnosis and management. But when patients present with symptoms and concerns about their sleep disturbances, they often do so to healthcare providers who are not sleep specialists.
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This year, the Penn Libraries launched the Penn Sexuality Collection, a new effort that builds upon our already existing collections in more traditional aspects of sexuality studies. The Penn Libraries is already home to the Banned Books Collections, which is made up of pulp fiction of a sexual nature that was popular for about 40 years after World War II.
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This year’s insights from Undergraduate Climate and Energy Policy Seminar fellows tackled topics from energy security and the crisis in Ukraine to the grid issues in Puerto Rico.
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Penn Medicine CAREs grant program is supporting 36 community programs this quarter, including efforts to support diversity in medicine.
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In a recent study, Shoshana Aronowitz and colleagues conducted interviews with prescribers, pharmacists, and patients to determine how telehealth was being used to prescribe buprenorphine. They found that patients and prescribers welcomed the use of telehealth, but pharmacists often “red flagged” these prescriptions resulting in pharmacy-level “red tape” that delayed or prevented the prescriptions from being filled.
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The President’s Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Professor of Chemistry, has won the 2022 Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry for pioneering and creative applications of computational chemistry to the field of atmospheric chemistry, and for excellence in communication.
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