In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The debut of Beyond Business, a series of discussions streamed live on Wharton’s LinkedIn page, covers the topic of investing capital in a time of systemic racism, and how venture capitalists can create new patterns for investing and analysis.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Annenberg School for Communication Assistant Professor Yphtach Lelkes breaks down why polling numbers show a strong likelihood that one candidate will win, despite the actual percentages of voters being quite close, and why this leads to political hobbyism and can even swing the results of an election.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
Mayors for a Guaranteed Income and the School of Social Policy & Practice has established the Center for Guaranteed Income Research, to consolidate the key learnings from the pilots taking place, address knowledge gaps in the contemporary understanding of guaranteed income’s impact for Americans, and allow the organization to layer data with anecdotal evidence in federal advocacy.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
Monuments and who and what they represent have been a subject of intense national discourse. Missing from that conversation is the presence—or lack thereof—of Black women in the making of monuments and as the subject of monuments, says Dixon Li, a doctoral candidate in English.
FULL STORY AT OMNIA →
Since 2012, Penn’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders has been traveling to Guatemala’s Lake Atitlán to work on projects and collaborate with farmers on sanitation and irrigation projects.
FULL STORY AT The Water Center →
Cross-Campus Picks is a series offers book, music, and film recommendations to accompany exhibits and events taking place across Penn. Its recent recommendation is at the Institute of Contemporary Art, which reopened its doors to the public for an exhibition on the work of Milford Graves, presented by Ars Nova Workshop.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics' latest virtual seminar brought together five top experts on the history and continuing impact of structural racism in health care.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The $1.5 million gift, from Hyder Ahmad and Faisal S. Al Shoaibi, endows a Presidential Professorship in Penn Arts & Sciences with a preference for a scholar focused on data science. The professorship is named in honor of their mothers.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
Two researchers with The Singh Center for Nanotechnology, one of 16 National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) member sites, have won the NNCI’s annual image contest. Each entry submitted is made using highly specialized microscopes available at NNCI sites, depicting complex structures that are no bigger than a red blood cell, as well as useful patterns with features only a few atoms across.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Penn researchers say prone positioning, a technique shown to improve outcomes in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, may not be used as frequently as needed, and more time spent explaining its value to clinical staff could help.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
