PJ Brennan named to Delaware County Board of Health
The chief medical officer and SVP of Penn Medicine, has been chosen as one of the five members on the newly created Delaware County Board of Health.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
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Promoting self-care among African immigrants with chronic diseases
In the Journal of Advanced Nursing, Penn Nursing’s Onome Henry Osokpo reports on the results of a systematic review, finding that an interplay of cultural and structural factors influences the self-care practices of African immigrants with chronic diseases. While cultural identity is a powerful influence, African immigrants also report systemic barriers to adopting self-care recommendations.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The winners of the 2021 Senior Design Competition
Penn Engineering’s Senior Design Competition, sponsored by the Engineering Alumni Society, involves pitching projects to a panel of judges who evaluate their potential in the market. This year, eighteen teams total, three from each department, virtually presented to the panel of judges, who awarded $2,000 prizes in four categories. Team OtoAI, Team mRNA Vaccines, Team PVRE, and Team Phaox took home the four prizes in the 2021 Senior Design Competition.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
The war on drugs as structural racism
A Penn LDI seminar looks at the contrast between the “War on Drugs,” which devastated Black and Latino communities through mass incarceration, and today’s public health approach to opioids in white communities.
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Penn’s Department of Cell and Developmental Biology—Insights on scientific excellence from a female powerhouse
This spring, the National Academy of Sciences, a 158-year-old nonprofit organization that promotes scientific excellence and advises the United States government and public on the latest scientific developments, elected two scientists to its membership from the department of Cell and Developmental Biology in the Perelman School of Medicine. M. Celeste Simon, the Arthur H. Rubenstein, MBBCh Professor and the scientific director of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, and Marisa S.
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2021 CAREER Award recipient: Alex Hughes
The assistant professor in bioengineering and in cell and developmental biology, is among the Penn Engineering faculty members who have received the CAREER Award this year. Hughes plans to use the funds to develop a human kidney model to better understand how the development of cells and tissues influences congenital diseases of the kidney and urinary tract.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Penn Medicine CAREs Serve Saturday
In the Serve Saturday outreaches, volunteers gather in underserved areas in the city to lead a variety of programs, ranging from giving out groceries, paying for gas and offering SEPTA key cards, to cleaning public spaces. With support from a Penn Medicine CAREs grant, Serve Saturday will be able to extend their services to the Port Richmond area in North Philadephia.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Songs of Dissent: Poetry and Antiracist Solidarity
In this Lightbulb Café, Josephine Nock-Hee Park, Professor of English and Director of the Asian American Studies Program, and Herman Beavers, Julie Beren Platt and Marc E. Platt President’s Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies, discuss teaching poetry and finding antiracist solidarity in poetic movements of the past and present.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →