Levia A. Sutton and Emmanuel “Manny” Fernandez have been selected to participate in one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s leadership programs.

The Zisman Family Professor in Computer and Information Science and the Founding Director of the ASSET Center for safe and trustworthy AI-enabled systems has been awarded for his introduction of novel models of computation, which laid the theoretical foundations for analysis, design, synthesis and verification of computer systems.

A between Penn Nursing, Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions, and others is launching the Establishing Mechanisms of Benefit to Reinforce the Alzheimer’s Care Experience (EMBRACE) AD/ADRD Roybal Center to advance the science of dementia care.

The Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture Center (IoT4Ag) is helping farm management by collecting data in a low-power, long-range approach with the Solar-Powered Remote IoT4Ag Network Gateway (SPRING) project. The National Science Foundation has funded IoT4Ag to connect cross-disciplinary scientists from four institutions, including Penn, to farmers and industry partners.

Savage, a professor in Africana studies, is a finalist for the Museum of African American History Stone Book Award for her latest work, “Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar,” which has also garnered the 2024 American Book Award.

The Penn Libraries recently collaborated with Hakim’s Bookstore, the oldest Black-owned bookstore on the East Coast and a West Philadelphia neighbor, to purchase hundreds of distinctive books curated by Hakim’s expert staff.

The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) is the new name for the department known since 2005 as the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC).