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  • Penn Dental Medicine names leaders of new care center for persons with disabilities

    Miriam R. Robbins has been named director and Alicia Risner-Bauman is named associate director. Their appointments to these new posts are effective in February and January, respectively.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine

  • Penn Medicine town hall targets vaccine hesitancy in communities of color

    The Penn community joined Black Clergy of Philadelphia and the COVID-19 Prevention Network for a virtual Town Hall discussion called “Faith, (Mis)Trust, and COVID-19.”

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • Improving hospital nurse staffing is associated with fewer deaths from sepsis

    According to a new study from Penn’s School of Nursing, improving nurse staffing would likely save lives of sepsis patients and save money by reducing the length of hospital stays.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Interdisciplinary team studying possible therapeutic pathways to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection

    The study, led by principal investigator Bruce Shenker, was awarded funding as part of a National Institutes of Health program to support supplemental COVID-19-related research, receiving a one-year grant extension to Shenker’s grant titled “Bacteria and lymphocyte suppression in periodontitis.”

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine

  • How to lend a (socially distanced) helping hand this holiday season

    While the pandemic has restricted in-person activities, Penn has found ways to adapt and still safely give back and volunteer.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • How student loan forgiveness could increase inequality

    Partial or full student loan forgiveness is “regressive,” according to a recent working paper by Wharton’s Sylvain Catherine, who argues that any policy that is a universal loan forgiveness policy or a capped forgiveness policy is going to give most of the dollars in forgiveness to upper-income individuals.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Firooz Aflatouni wins 2020 Bell Labs Prize

    The associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, in collaboration with Farshid Ashtiani, a postdoctoral scholar in Aflatouni’s research group, won the top prize for their proposal for “Integrated Photonic-mmWave Deep Networks.”

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today

  • Penn Athletics adopts recommendations developed by Racial Justice Task Force

    The Racial Justice Task Force focused on both short- and long-term recommendations over the course of four months. The recommendations were presented to AD Grace Calhoun and the Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics (DRIA) executive team and unanimously approved. These recommendations provide direction and intention to DRIA’s efforts to become a more diverse, inclusive, anti-racist organization.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics

  • Scientists unveil a promising new strategy for combating pancreatic cancer

    A DNA mutation that occurs frequently in the development of many pancreatic tumors appears to make these cancers vulnerable to an existing type of drug known as PARP inhibitors, according to a new study from scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Fewer than 2% of OB-GYN doctors can prescribe life-saving opioid treatment

    Examining countrywide data, the researchers hoped to gauge how many obstetrician-gynecologists have their waiver to prescribe buprenorphine.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News