In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
As part of its Cities and Contagion Initiative, launched in April 2020, Penn IUR has covered and is continuing to cover public transportation, housing, commercial real estate, and specific industrial sectors in the nation’s urban economies, and has issued three briefs one year out.
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Established in 2021 by the American Historical Association, the prize is offered annually to recognize a historian for leadership and sustained engagement at the intersection of historical work, public culture, and social justice. Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History Emerita.
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The Department of Materials Science and Engineering’s Eric Detsi will lead a team of researchers to develop more eco-friendly batteries that are based on sodium, rather than lithium, with a National Science Foundation grant of $2.7 million.
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The assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering will use the funds for research on microscopic robots to emulate fundamental biology, provide new ways of thinking about life and shape the microworld with precision and control.
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The grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York will support Perry World House’s efforts to connect Penn’s research and expertise with the global policy community as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Four in 10 Americans, and 7 in 10 heavy users of conservative media, say they would take ivermectin if they had been exposed to someone who has COVID-19, according to a new survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
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The J. Peter Skirkanich Professor in the departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been elected a 2021 Fellow of the American Physical Society, for significant contributions to the network modeling of the human brain, including dynamical changes caused by evolution, learning, aging, and disease.
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A grant of nearly $10M will fund research to investigate the impact of neighborhood place-based and financial well-being interventions, targeting the root causes of structural racism that contribute to poor health in Black communities.
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Wharton real estate and finance professor Benjamin Keys says it’s not likely that the current real estate market bubble will burst in the way it did in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Although the frenzied buying and inflated prices are reminiscent of the run-up to the recession, Keys says there are several factors that make the current market different.
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The Penn Anti-Cancer Engineering Center will study fundamental forces and associated challenges that determine how cancer grows and spreads, looking for mechanisms that could lead to new treatments or preventative therapies.
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