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The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing is ranked the No.
1 nursing school in the world by US News and World Report, and it's about to add another feather to its cap.
The school has received a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to work with communities across the US to develop solutions to social justice issues, Penn News reports.
The five projects that will receive funding from the Penn Community Collaboratory for Co-Creation (Penn4C) are: The Smoothie Bike Project: A collaboration between students, local high school students, and center staff in re-purposing used bikes and used blenders into educational and joyful kid-powered smoothie making machines The Impact of Land Care in North Tioga: A web-based platform, which will be co-designed as an AI-driven culturally responsive youth digital co-creative arts space for community in which partnership with youth-led organization Creative Resilient Youth (CRY in Philadelphia) Childhood Asthma and Electronic Health Records: A Community-Based Approach The North10 Heat Islands: This project aims to address the problem of urban heat stress in the Hunting Park/East Tioga area of Philadelphia by designing a prototype for a cooling shelter that can be integrated into local bus stops in areas that people
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