In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication was honored with the 2021 Franklin Founder Award during a virtual celebration of Benjamin Franklin’s 315th birthday.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
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 →
With a major gift from a Penn Dental Medicine alumnus, the School has established the LGBTQ+ Fund with the goal of identifying LGBTQ+ based biases in the dental profession and ways to dispel them.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
Chester County Hospital’s Victoria DiBerardino wanted to be neonatal intensive care (NICU) nurse as long as she can remember, as the NICU is part of her own birth story. She was born premature at the same hospital, and spent two weeks in the NICU unit. DiBerardino spent two years at Lancaster General’s Women and Babies Hospital before she could transfer to CCH, her beloved hometown hospital.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Deans Pam Grossman and Erika James argue that to be prepared leaders need to consider the necessary crisis leadership practices that should occur before, during, and after a crisis happens.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Wilcox has played a key role in the publication of a free, digital publication—Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer—to reach a broad audience in an effort to maximize the adoption of techniques to avoid carbon and actively remove it from the atmosphere
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Penn researchers find that an enzyme that reduces the effects of PARP inhibition could be targeted to achieve more potent killing of cancer cells and overcome tumors’ resistance to this class of drugs.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
On May 1, 1965 a special seminar was held at the Penn Museum as part of the University’s observance of Law Day. Titled “Rule of Law,” the program invited 400 guests to engage with the panel that included the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as well as Raymond Pace Alexander, civil rights leader, lawyer, politician, and the first African American judge appointed to the Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
A new report by Center Steering Committee Member Sophie Maddocks explores how journalists write about trolls and how coverage of trolling could be improved, identifying weaknesses in news coverage of trolls, finding a pattern of narrow and stereotypical reporting among many news outlets. The report offers examples of best-practice coverage that communicates vital information about the conduct of trolls without platforming their views and spreading their messages of hate.
FULL STORY AT Center for Media at Risk →
New research from Penn Medicine finds that making doctors opt out from prescribing cardiac rehabilitation instead of opting in increased referrals by roughly 70%.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
