In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Optical Society cited Agarwal for “pioneering contributions to advancing complex light-matter interactions in low-dimensional semiconductors, phase-change and topological materials for applications in integrated photonics.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Made by the Annenberg School for Communication, “Emile” is a film that charts a year in the life of Emile Bruneau, neuroscientist and founder of the Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab at Penn, as he embraces a brain cancer diagnosis with surprising positivity and works to accelerate the timeline of his scientific mission: to use the tools of neuroscience and psychology to bring peace to groups of people who are in conflict
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
Led by Wharton Asia Exchange with support from Wharton Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Group, Wharton China Association, and Wharton Korean Undergraduate Business Society, student organizations teamed up with the Wharton Undergraduate Division to organize, “Being Asian in the U.S.”, a forum for students to share their experiences and offer support for their peers.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
With a $17.8 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health, researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine will collaborate with 11 research centers to determine more precise diagnostic biomarkers and drug targets for the disease.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Junhyong Kim, Chair and Patricia M. Williams Professor of Biology, and Kate O'Neill, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the Perelman School of Medicine, have been awarded a Human BioMolecular Atlas Program grant to lead a multidisciplinary team in documenting the molecular characteristics of individual cells in the female reproductive system.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
Andy Tan’s newly-formed Health Communication & Equity Lab seeks to advance communication science to achieve health equity, focusing on examining inequalities in marketing, media, and message effects across diverse populations and designing culturally responsive communication interventions to advance the health and well-being of health disparity populations.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
The Undergraduate Data Science Hangout connects students and faculty across seemingly disparate disciplines.
FULL STORY AT Omnia →
Adding an “active choice” nudge to the electronic health record increased statin prescribing for patients with heart disease, but not for those “at-risk.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
This prestigious award was given “for the seminal use of physical principles in understanding living transport networks.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
The grant, “Beyond the Pedestal: Tracing and Transforming America’s Monuments,” will support the production of a definitive audit of the nation’s monuments, the opening of ten Monument Lab field research offices through $1 million of subgrants in 2021; and allow for Monument Lab to hire its first full-time staff and develop significant art and justice initiatives.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
