In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Alexa Spagnola and her teammates won the NYU Abu Dhabi Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World with their project, Health Hero Match, which connects healthcare workers with hospitals experiencing staffing shortages.
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Designed for veterinarians and pet owners alike, the new web-based telehealth application is expanding access to science-based insights from certified behavior experts.
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Sean Burkholder, Sophie Debiasi Hochhäusl, and Willie Udell received G. Holmes Perkins Teaching Awards for 2020, in recognition of distinguished teaching and innovation in a classroom, seminar, or studio setting.
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This spring, Penn GSE doctoral student Rabani Garg created a list of the best children’s books about Ramadan that resonate with both Muslim and non-Muslim readers.
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YouTube has begun featuring fact-checks from FactCheck.org and other authoritative third-party sources when users search for information, in an expanded effort in the United States to correct misinformation, especially on fast-moving news topics like the coronavirus pandemic.
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Oscar Serpell argues that in order to launch a coordinated response to COVID or climate change, nations need to be able to trust each another and set aside their economic and geopolitical differences.
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Experts from the Penn Wharton Budget Model highlight the close relationship between oil prices and business investments in the U.S.
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The outbreak of COVID-19 presented Chester County Hospital with a crisis of potentially equal proportions. With the first diagnosed cases of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania, calls from the community began rolling into all areas of the hospital, and soon unsolicited offers of PPE, food, funds, and even shoes and other necessities were coming in.
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Led by Associate Dean of International Affairs Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Penn Law has partnered with Thomson Reuters to conduct a first of its kind study examining the relationship between emerging male leaders and their relationships with the women with whom they work across legal and business sectors.
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Hammer will offer a course on COVID-19 and the coronavirus pandemic during Penn’s Summer II session, which will be held online this year. The course, Biotechnology, Immunology, and COVID-19, will be co-taught with Miriam Wattenbarger, senior lecturer in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
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