In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Increased stress and anxiety of the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating sleep issues. That’s why many people rely on the low, static buzz of a sleep sound machine or smartphone application when they can’t sleep. White noise is not only purported to mask disruptive noises, but also to be a non-pharmacological approach for promoting sleep and improving its quality.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Penn Dental Medicine has plans to launch an innovative postdoctoral training program in general dentistry designed to educate dental residents in primary dental care for vulnerable and underserved patients.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
A team of researchers from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) have been awarded a five-year, $6 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative grant with their proposal, “Robust Concept Learning and Lifelong Adaptation Against Adversarial Attacks,” which will leverage insights from human cognitive development to make artificial intelligence systems better at protecting themselves from malicious disruptions.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
In new study from Penn Medicine, a retrospective trial of more than 200 patients found mini-strokes were significantly less common among patients who underwent proton therapy versus conventional photon-based radiation therapy. Proton therapy patients also experienced fewer heart attacks.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
How an individual will experience a painful incident comes down to the complex, variable connections formed between several different parts of the brain, which had previously been unpredictable. A team of Penn researchers has shown a way to make such predictions about brain connections from the pattern of neural connections that begin to take shape soon after the first onset of pain.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
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 →
