In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Treating a patient with dementia has unique challenges, including the fact that it’s often difficult for caregivers to relate to exactly what the patient is experiencing. One method that the Princeton Medical Center is using to help its staff get a glimpse into how individuals with dementia experience the world is Virtual Dementia Tour® (VDT) training.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Bracho is the first Abrams Artist-in-Residence in Penn Arts & Sciences, in the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Bracho is a writer, editor, and teacher who has worked in community and university, theater and video/film, politics and aesthetics for the past 29 years.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
Richard J. Gelles, former dean of Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice, was honored at the 2020 Society for Social Work and Research conference with the Social Policy Researcher Award, which commemorated his cumulative career accomplishments, prolific scholarship, and exemplary leadership in social work and policy research.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
Linda Leibowitz, the co-director of the Executive Program in School & Mental Health Counseling, offers a guide for how families can partner with school counselors to help children grow.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
The Penn Law Transnational Legal Clinic and the University of Texas School of Law Immigration Clinic, will file a Request for Precautionary Measures against Mexico and the United States before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, asking the Commission to seek an end to the Migration Protection Protocols, also called the “Remain in Mexico” program.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
Urban areas are still expanding across the globe, particularly in low- and moderate-income countries, where the youth population is exploding. At the same time, urban inequality is growing and, in some cases, so is civil unrest. Experts, including several from Penn, reflect on why and how access to the city is important for jobs, economic growth, and intergenerational mobility and how can it be improved.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Jennifer Higdon and John Legend were winners at the 2020 Grammy Awards.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
The assistant professor of architecture Masoud Akbarzadeh has received a Faculty Early Career Development grant from the National Science Foundation to help develop a computational framework for the use, development, and integration of geometry-based structural design methods in three dimensions.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Family caregivers of the deceased rated the quality of end-of-life care in the intensive care unit higher than the end-of-life care in other hospital departments, according to new study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
As an expert in “3D epigenetics,” or the way the genome’s highly specific folding patterns influence how and when individual genes are expressed, Phillips-Cremins highlighted a slate of new techniques that will allow researchers to take a closer look at those relationships.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering →
