In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Katz Center will devote the 2019–20 fellowship year to the theme of The Jewish Home: Dwelling on the Domestic, the Familial, and the Lived-In. The next cohort of fellows beginning in September will work on research that will shed light on this most formative and intimate of contexts for Jewish life.
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Five Penn Dental Medicine students will be serving in national leadership roles in the American Student Dental Association for the 2019-20 academic year, including the group’s top post. This is the second year in a row for a Penn Dental Medicine student to be chosen to lead this national organization.
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The Weitzman School of Design’s new externship program connects students to a fast-tracked temporary training in a workplace, and gets a soon-to-be graduate’s foot in the door and gives students the flexibility to experiment in finding a firm that’s a good fit.
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Stress and burnout have been hot topics lately. For Anthony Rostain, co-director of the Adult ADHD Treatment and Research Program, and the medical director for Adult Neurodevelopmental Disorders, skyrocketing levels of anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues among young people, and particularly among those entering college, are indicative of the toxic stress young people experience early on.
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Once she finishes her MBA from Wharton this spring, Pugh will be heading to Google this fall to work on global strategy while thinking of carving a bigger space for underrepresented minorities.
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Wharton’s Robert Meyer discusses the crash of a Boeing 737 Max aircraft, coming five months after another crash involving the same aircraft.
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Penn Nursing’s Linda Aiken, the Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing, and Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, was recently awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
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Considerable research has explored the relationship between the nurse work environment and a variety of patient and nurse quality and safety outcomes. New research articulates the association between nurse work environments and health care quality, safety and patient and clinician well-being.
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In the decade since the federal government’s electronic health record (EHR) initiatives first became law, nearly all U.S. hospitals have adopted some form of EHR technology. Now, focus is on how a comprehensive EHR can enhance outcomes. Yet, little is known about the sociotechnical factors that can shape the relationship between advanced EHR adoption and quality of care.
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A champion for diversity in the field, Kristy Weber, chief of orthopaedic oncology in the Perelman School of Medicine, will lead the world’s largest medical association of musculoskeletal specialists.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
