In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
#TheMovement gathered some vital momentum with the dual season approaching, finishing with a 42-26 overall record and six placewinners across five weight classes. On the day, 17 of Penn’s 20 wrestlers recorded a win while ten finished with two or more victories.
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The assistant professor of chemistry has been awarded a (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program award, the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty.
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The prize encourages scholars to translate their own academic work to be more accessible to policymakers in positions of influence and to advance policy debates on significant issues in global affairs. It recognizes outstanding, original essays intended for a policy audience that draw on original academic research.
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The Penn Medicine CAREs grant program has awarded over 550 grants since its inception in 2012 to allow employees to purchase supplies or other resources for their outside volunteer efforts.
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Senior forward AJ Brodeur was among the 40 players who were named to the team by the website CollegeInsider.com. The senior is seventh on Penn’s all-time scoring list, and is also on the cusp of becoming the first player in Ivy League history to score 1,500 points.
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The Ivy League was represented by one player across the two teams picked by ESPN’s panel of experts: Penn legend Chuck Bednarik, who was named to the first team as its center on offense.
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The freshman guard/forward Max Martz earns the honor after scoring a career-high 19 points in Penn’s win over Division 3 Wagner at The Palestra.
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Jason Burdick, Robert D. Bent Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, an award of high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors.
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The Media, Inequality and Change (MIC) Center—a joint project of the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University—along with the Media Mobilizing Project and Free Press have received a $2.6 million collaborative grant from Independence Public Media to take stock of Philadelphia’s media ecosystem and assess its strengths and weaknesses.
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Marietta Ambrose, an associate professor of cardiology and the new director of Penn Cardiology International, is the first director of the new program which aims to bring heart health initiatives and the world-class care of Penn Medicine, to those in middle-to-low income countries
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