In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
The lates of installment of Expert Voices examines the role of cities in the future, and one theme that throughout is the belief that cities are essential. Even those who foresee smaller cities in the future are confident that cities aren’t going anywhere. In fact, they are necessary for a better future.
FULL STORY AT Penn IUR →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
