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  • The PRECISE Center turns 15 — and looks to the future with two new faculty members

    The Penn Research in Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems Engineering Center was founded 15 years ago. Some of the notable systems developed are CHARON for hybrid system modeling and verification VitalCore for monitoring the Internet of Medical Things, F1TENTH for autonomous racing and Verisig for safety verification of neural network controllers. Its two new faculty members are Benjamin C. Lee and Mingmin Zhao.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • Fact-checking presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on vaccines, autism, and COVID-19

    FactCheck.org’s science fact-checking project, SciCheck, examines the trail of false and misleading claims on topics such as vaccines, autism, and COVID-19 made by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine advocate who is running for the Democratic nomination for president.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • $19M from NIH establishes maternal health implementation science hub at Penn Medicine

    The seven-year grant funds the creation of an implementation science hub as part of the NIH’s new Maternal Health Research of Centers of Excellence initiative to promote maternal health equity.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Annenberg welcomes visiting scholars and postdoctoral fellows for 2023-24

    This year’s visiting scholars join the Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication, Annenberg Public Policy Center, Center for Media at Risk, Center on Digital Culture and Society, and SAFELab, with postdoctoral fellows joining additional centers and labs.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • Penn and CHOPResearchers show gene editing tools can be delivered to perinatal brain

    Researchers in the Center for Fetal Research at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Engineering have identified an ionizable lipid nanoparticle that can deliver mRNA base editing tools to the brain.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • Earned income tax credit limits support for those in poor health

    A new study by Seth A. Berkowitz, Guarav Dave, and LDI senior fellow Atheendar Venkataramani explored how the phase-in model of the earned income tax creditcreates a gap in income support for those with limited ability to work, which could create a “poverty-health trap,” where poor health worsens the ability to earn income.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Announcing the 2023 Lauder Fellows

    Penn’s School of Nursing has named its second cohort of Fellows for the Leonard A. Lauder Community Care Nurse Practitioner Program, and the group is comprised of nursing professionals from across the country who will begin full-time studies towards becoming a primary care nurse practitioner this fall.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Roos honored by American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

    David S. Roos, Penn’s E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology, will receive the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2024 Alice and C. C. Wang Award in Molecular Parasitology, in recognition of his work making seminal contributions to the field of molecular parasitology.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Grid reliability in the decarbonization era

    Responding to the challenge of climate change in the United States demands new approaches to grid reliability, argue Kleinman Center and Carey Law professor Shelley Welton and her coauthors.

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →

  • What happens to a business when the founder leaves?

    Startup founders are often fired by investors who want the company to steer into a new direction, yet new research from Wharton’s Danny Kim shows that these entrepreneurs have what it takes to effect change.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →