In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The 2021 cohort of the Penn LDI Summer Undergraduate Minority Research (SUMR) program was the largest in the program’s 22-year history, including 31 scholars from 20 universities.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
With a historic balance of women in the MBA Class of 2023, Wharton examines its path to this milestone and efforts to build on progress made in the classroom and the workforce.
FULL STORY AT Wharton Stories →
In honor of Constitution Day, September 17, Annenberg Classroom has released a documentary on the Second Amendment’s “right to bear arms.” The film, “Second Amendment: D.C. v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago,” is the latest in a series of award-winning films about the U.S. Constitution.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
The assistant professor in electrical and systems engineering will use the grant to conduct research on both online social networks and COVID-19 contact tracing networks.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Making a Difference in Global Communities supports multidisciplinary projects led by Arts & Sciences faculty working with students to address global societal challenges, including inequities in race, gender, sexual identity, socioeconomic mobility, education, health care, and political representation, as well as climate change, poverty, and immigration. The Klein Grants are a new program committed to the achievement of social justice through research, teaching, and community engagement.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
Wharton’s Stephanie Creary spoke with organizational behavior researcher Tiffany Johnson and psychologist Hammad S. N’cho about workplace well-being, citing a need for a bespoke strategy for people of color, who have been more adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the heightened tensions around racial and social justice.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
To help get in the back-to-school spirit, this month’s Featured Books are all about Philadelphia.
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In a series of online Special Briefings convened by Penn IUR together with the Volcker Alliance, federal, state, and local budget experts assessed the opportunities and challenges posed by three legislative initiatives that propose a multi-trillion dollar infusion of funding to state and local governments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
FULL STORY AT Penn IUR →
As the nation continues to grapple with outbreaks of COVID-19, the Biden Administration released a statement that concludes a booster shot will be needed to maximize vaccine-induced protection. Penn LDI’s Nadiyah Browning and Janet Weiner examine how these boosters and attendant resources be allocated so that communities that are most vulnerable and disadvantaged are prioritized.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Arts and cultural institutions in both countries were deployed to support wartime efforts between 1980 to 1988, often evoking religious imagery and symbols to glorify the war and martyrdom. In contrast to such glorifications of war, a number of works have honed in on the grimmer realities of war that contest these state narratives. It is important to look beyond the two states of Iran and Iraq and consider how marginalized groups experienced the war, particularly the Kurds.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
