In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Five HBCUs—Howard University, Morehouse College, Oakwood University, Spelman College, and Xavier University of Louisiana—partner with the Penn Access Summer Scholars Program to expand the pipeline of students underrepresented in medicine.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Penn Medicine has formed the BETTER Center (Behavioral Economics to Transform Trial Enrollment Representativeness), designed to foster greater diversity, equity, and inclusion among people who participate in clinical trials designed to improve the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The BETTER Center will seek to more actively engage and recruit individuals from historically underserved racial and ethnic groups, women, and people of low socioeconomic status, among other historically underrepresented groups.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A study co-written by Penn Medicine’s Emily Ko finds that Black women with endometrial cancer have an increased risk of death directly related to their endometrial cancer compared to white women, regardless of the stage and type of the cancer.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Penn Medicine and CHOP together pioneered the research and development of the world’s first personalized cellular therapy for cancer—CAR T cell therapy. They will collaborate with Costa Rica’s Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (Social Security Program) to facilitate CAR T research in Costa Rica.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Professor of Perinatal Nursing and the Helen M. Shearer Term Professor of Nutrition in Penn Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health has two new appointments. Domestically, Spatz has joined the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine work group titled Inclusion of Pregnant and Lactating Persons in Clinical Trials. Internationally, Spatz has been elected to the Board of Directors for the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
This latest group of distinguished research fellows is largely based within the Penn community, bringing the group to a total of 58 eminent scholars whose work complements the research and engagement being conducted by the policy center.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
The Penn GSE professor’s book, “Free Speech and Why You Should Give a Damn,” co-written with editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson, has been honored with a gold prize in the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award program’s “Political & Current Events” category.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
The Libraries has acquired French language novels, and works on politics, Islam, art, and culture. Their publication in French reflects transnational networks of scholarly communication. A full picture of North African history and culture must take into account its multilingual reality. Collecting to support teaching and research can present a challenge, as materials in French and in Arabic are often artificially separated.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
The U.S. has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the developed world, and most of these maternal deaths are preventable. In a recent study in the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecological, and Neonatal Nursing, Penn Nursing’s Rebecca Clark and Eileen Lake examined differences in nursing resources across three different types of maternity units, and found that the work environment—meaning teamwork, resources, and managerial support—did not vary much across unit types. However, staffing, education, and specialty certification did vary significantly.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Researchers at Penn, Harvard, MIT, and Massachusetts General Hospital will partner to map immune systems and investigate how to make vaccinations most effective for pregnant patients and developing fetuses.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
