In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The most efficient way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming is by putting a price on carbon in the form of a carbon tax. But the idea of taxing the fuels that run cars, and power homes has given Americans pause and, as a result, no carbon tax has been levied to date in the U.S.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
Penn Law’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic is aiming to fill that gap with a carefully crafted series of frequently asked questions and answers that matter most to small business owners and entrepreneurs during the pandemic.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
The award, endowed by the Virgil Thomson Foundation and administered by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, recognizes an American composer of vocal works and includes a prize of $40,000.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
Dean Wolff, who is also a professor in the Department of Preventive & Restorative Sciences, received the clinical research award along with his co-authors for the paper “Nonrestorative Treatments for Caries: Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis.”
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
At the end of March, nurses in the Tuttleman Center’s ambulatory surgery center were invited to serve as members of the newly launched Exposure SWAT Team, working with Infection Prevention and Occupational Health to identify, track, and manage employee exposures.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
For Susan Weiss, a professor of microbiology with more than four decades of experience studying coronaviruses, the pandemic means more work for her, and her students, post-docs, and technicians, than ever before. Her team has been at work in the biosafety level 3 containment lab to support the community effort towards understanding SARS-CoV-2.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The anonymous $10 million will amplify opportunities and outcomes of the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative (WiN). This commitment will propel faculty research and teaching, student learning, and corporate engagement through WiN.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
As two-thirds of the 50 states began relaxing their anti-COVID-19 restrictions, the sixth in a series of seminars, “Experts at Home,” convened by Penn LDI, brought together scientists who have created different simulator models to predict the economic and health changes various levels of policy relaxations may bring.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The May issue of Urban Link highlights graduating Ph.D. students’ research on urban-related topics, including applied economics, city and regional planning, criminology, and nursing.
FULL STORY AT Penn IUR →
Penn Memory Center Co-Director Dr. Jason Karlawish and Deborah Kan define what delirium is, the reasoning behind why those with dementia are more susceptible to developing delirium, and what caregivers should do during this time to prepare themselves and the ones they care for.
FULL STORY AT Penn Memory Center →
