Taylor Swift, storytelling, and climate communication
Clean energy expert and senior research fellow at Penn Joseph Romm says that Taylor Swift’s lyrics offer storytelling techniques that can be applied for impact-driven climate communications.
Eva Dyer is listening to the brain’s code with a little help from AI
Penn professor Eva Dyer merges her background in music and audio engineering with artificial intelligence to help uncover brain signals and explore how the brain processes information.
As Penn’s urban park manager, Craig Roncace leads a versatile team in charge of outdoor maintenance, waste management, and sustainability initiatives across campus.
Over 20,000 educators share insights on school cell phone policies
Preliminary findings in the landmark research initiative ‘Phones in Focus’ suggest stricter cell phone policies are linked to less disruption and greater teacher satisfaction.
Taking place Oct. 13 to 17, Penn’s sixth Climate Week includes dozens of in-person and virtual events that cross disciplines, from energy policy and history to engineering and medicine.
Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.
J. Nicholas Betley has led collaborative research seeking the neural basis of long-term sustained pain and finds that a critical hub in the brainstem holds a mechanism for stopping pain signals from reaching the rest of the brain. Their findings could help clinicians better understand chronic pain and lead to new, more efficacious treatments.
Who, What, Why: Olivia Larson on sleep and memory in mental health disorders
‘My overarching goal was to use sleep as a window into the mechanisms that link poor cognitive functioning with poor mental health,’ clinical psychology doctoral student Olivia Larson says of her dissertation.
This student-centered conversation, hosted by Penn Libraries and the Weingarten Center, will examine how AI impacts access, inclusion, and disability rights and address the ethical challenges that arise as these technologies shape our world. Free and open to the Penn community.
This celebration during Climate Week at Penn will mark the launch of Penn Climate Insights, a platform that lowers the barrier to sharing and accessing climate knowledge and drives meaningful climate action through education. Free and open to the Penn community.
Penn’s guiding principles are the University’s enduring values and distinctive strengths: anchored, inventive, interwoven, and engaged. The practices support and strengthen Penn’s core educational mission.
At Penn Today, we focus on some of the ways the University is putting this framework into action. From student, faculty, and staff profiles to research updates and event coverage, Penn Today highlights the latest examples of the University’s principled approach to excellence.
Students test one way to combat extreme heat in Philadelphia
Third-year students Nafisa Bangura and Angelica Dadda expanded upon a multidisciplinary research endeavor to evaluate a reflective pavement coating as a tool to mitigate extreme heat. Their work may inform policy efforts to improve urban heat resilience.
From framework to actions: Provost John L. Jackson Jr. talks Penn Forward
In a Q&A, Provost John L. Jackson Jr. explains the relationship between the strategic framework In Principle and Practice and Penn Forward—a new University-wide process and action plan that will advance Penn forward for the next decade and beyond.
Keeping it local: Penn’s partnerships with Philadelphia-based vendors boost local economy, neighborhood impact
According to the University’s latest Economic Impact Report, Penn helps power Philadelphia’s economy by procuring goods and services from neighboring businesses. Local CEOs discuss the meaningful impact that Penn has on their bottom line and in the community.
What NIH’s $50 million for autism research could mean for the future
Scientists from Penn Medicine and the Children’s Hospital Philadelphia are seeking to identify factors that may be driving the increase in autism diagnoses.
