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  • Regulating prescription drug prices

    A paper in JAMA Internal Medicine examines regulatory frameworks of drug pricing in six countries with diverse financing, delivery, and reimbursement systems, ranging from socialized medicine to markets with competing private insurers and providers. The researchers found that these countries have nearly universal health insurance, covering more than 99% of their population, and none have the monopolistic pricing and marketing exclusivity found in the U.S.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Second-year law students publish ‘Black Women Future Leaders’ report, developed as part of Rangita de Silva de Alwis’s ‘Women, Law, and Leadership’ course

    The report, by Dana Dyer and Magali Duque, explores the ways in which themes including bias, representation, and allyship affect Black women in the legal field through the data collected from a survey of 30 Black Penn Law students, of which 24 identify as women and 6 identify as men.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →

  • Medical librarian Richard James confronts public health challenges In the midst of COVID-19

    Richard James has held the position of Nursing Liaison Librarian at the Biomedical Library for the last four years, but recently his efforts have been directed toward helping nurses and other medical professionals meet the extraordinary demands of global health crises. These efforts include an ongoing collaboration with the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health and the delivery of a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) developed by the World Health Organization

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →

  • Health screening for emerging and noncommunicable disease burdens among the global poor

    The Population Aging Research Center presents a research brief that suggests population health screenings can reduce the burden of noncommunicable diseases in low-income countries.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. MLK interfaith commemoration

    The annual MLK Community Involvement Awards emphasized our common humanity and acknowledged individuals whose active service exemplifies Dr. King’s vision, with student performances, remarks from President Amy Gutmann, Provost Wendell Pritchett and Penn student leaders.

    FULL STORY AT The Office of the Chaplain →

  • The Ilan Stavans Collection of Jewish Latin American History, Culture, and Literature

    Penn’s Judaica Collections announce the acquisition of the largest private assemblage of its kind. The Stavans collection includes manuscripts, incunabula, rare books, special and signed editions, dictionaries, plays, posters, maps, photographs, letters, videos, radio, TV, music, and other material connected with the Jewish communities of Latin America from the colonial period to the present.

    FULL STORY AT Herbert D. Katz Center →

  • Penn and UC Merced research reveals an unexpected mechanism behind friction for 2D materials

    A team of engineers and physicists from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Merced have now discovered a new mechanism that controls friction of two dimensional materials at the nanoscale.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →

  • For Green New Deal Studio, students design a brighter future

    Designing a Green New Deal is an interdisciplinary studio led last semester by Billy Fleming, the Wilks Family Director of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at Weitzman. The course, a follow-up to a fall 2019 studio, is based on the tenets of the Green New Deal resolution introduced in Congress: decarbonizing the economy and investing in clean-energy jobs.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • Nicole Rust recognized by National Academy of Sciences

    The associate professor of psychology will receive a 2021 Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her achievement as an early-career researcher, and to further empirical research within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Exploring and creating collaborations in Colombia: A new environmental justice resource

    Kristina Lyons and Marilyn Howarth collaborated last semester on the course Transdisciplinary Environmental Humanities, which combined two languages across hemispheres to address issues of environmental justice throughout communities in Colombia

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →