In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The third clinic led by Mercy Philadelphia, Penn Medicine, and local faith community leaders will be held on Saturday, March 6, and will bring the total community vaccinations to 2,800.
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In celebration of Women’s History Month, Penn librarians put together a selection of books, films, and audio recordings available through the Penn Libraries.
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The Penn Wharton Budget Model projects that in addition to adding 2 million jobs, the additional daily vaccines would increase real GDP by 1%. Doubling the pace of vaccination would prevent a total 2 million COVID-19 cases in 2021.
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Penn GSE Professor of Practice Sharon Ravitch, postdoctoral fellow Reima Shakeir, and Gul Rukh Rahman of the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, released case studies of eight successful family philanthropies operating in the Global South.
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PPEH public research intern and climate storyteller Tsemone Ogbemi considers how climate stories and the art of translation overlap.
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In February 2021, faculty experts examined the promise and perils of big data and technological innovations that may lead to sustainable energy.
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New research from Penn Medicine finds that offering financial incentives to hospitals has the potential to drive swift systemic and practical changes to intervene in the opioid epidemic.
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The impact of pandemic isolation can be especially profound for cancer patients who previously found a sense of community in support groups. This past fall, the Abramson Cancer Center at Pennsylvania Hospital partnered with the nonprofit Sisters R Us Circle of Survivors to foster these crucial personal connections through a virtual breast cancer symposium.
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The American Institute of Architecture awarded 102 of members admission into the College of Fellows for 2021, the highest level of membership and honor within AIA. Three are Weitzman faculty members and eight are alums.
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A direct-to-consumer blood test for a key Alzheimer’s biomarker may be inevitable, but Penn Program on Precision Medicine for the Brain researchers Jason Karlawish, Emily Largent, and Anna Wexler warn that receiving results from such a test comes with potential challenges. The team weigh the risks and benefits of these blood tests in an article for JAMA Neurology titled “The Future is p-Tau—Anticipating Direct-to-Consumer Alzheimer’s Disease Blood Tests.”
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