In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Federal Reserve must get “more aggressive” in 2022 by increasing interest rates and tapering down asset purchases in order to tame inflation, according to Wharton finance professor Jeremy Siegel.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The new center—the Penn Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory for Healthy Aging (PennAITech)—is led by LDI senior fellows George Demiris and Jason Karlawish, and by Jason Moore, Chair of Computational Biomedicine at Cedar Sinai. It is focused on developing innovative technologies to improve care and living supports for older adults.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
As of January 1, Penn students, faculty, and staff whose research articles are accepted for publication in academic journals published by Cambridge University Press have the option to make their article open access at no additional cost to them.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
The assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, whose research lies at the intersection of solid-state opto-electronics and emerging low-dimensional materials, is being honored “for breakthrough advances in optical characterization and understanding of light-matter coupling in excitonic and strongly-correlated semiconductors.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
In the fall of 2021, students in landscape architecture and city and regional planning studios at the Weitzman School grappled with the varied challenges of planning for climate change. Their work took place at multiple spatial scales, across decades, and in diverse communities, from the U.S. Virgin Islands to the nation’s capital.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
The next stage of the NIH-funded THINKER clinical trial will address long-term outcomes and risks of transplanting kidneys from hepatitis C-infected donors into patients.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A pioneer in the field of orphan diseases and gene therapy, James M. Wilson reflects on 10 years of leading Penn’s Orphan Disease Center.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The grant will support Penn’s work, in collaboration with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, at multiple locations across the country through the Botswana-UPenn partnership, a 20-year collaboration between Penn’s Center for Global Health and the University of Botswana and the Botswana Ministry of Health and Wellness.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The team will launch a clinical trial harnessing synthetic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells to use with patients for whom a compatible kidney cannot be found due to preexisting antibodies against potential donors.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
A national study finds that patients newly diagnosed with advanced cancer did not experience COVID-related treatment delays or changes in the type of treatment they received, in contrast to earlier studies that identified delays across the cancer care continuum.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
