In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
This year, the Perelman School of Medicine Class of 2020 will be celebrating Match Day virtually, with the help of social media and student stories on the Penn Medicine News Blog.
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Businesses dependent on global sourcing are facing hard choices in crisis management amid the supply chain disruptions. But Senthil Veeraraghavan, Wharton professor of operations, information and decisions, says the choking of supply chains is “a second-order problem,” and the foremost priority is to ensure the availability of medical supplies, while “the first-order problems have to do with medical devices, medical products, productive equipment.”
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Analyzing four possible scenarios that the pandemic’s evolution could take in the future, Eric K. Clemons, a professor of operations, information and decisions at Wharton, argues that the market reaction is more extreme than any of the likely possible futures would justify.
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Do you know how your employees really feel about their job? New research shows that an employee’s smile could be a reliable indicator. Ira A. Lipman Associate Professor of Marketing Patti Williams co-authored a paper which investigates how nonverbal cues can be used to improve employee performance.
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A new Penn study shows administering the medication dantrolene through the nose increases its brain concentration and duration in a model of Alzheimer’s disease.
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An important biological mechanism that is thought to protect brain cells from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s may also be involved in regulating sleep.
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The Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) and Penn Law’s Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) have formed an alliance to promote and strengthen the rule of law in democratic institutions.
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At Penn Law, under the leadership of Associate Dean Rangita de Silva de Alwis, students have taken up the mantle of identifying the barriers, boundaries, and biases that women face in the legal and business worlds for a new study.
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Penn Nursing’s Peggy Compton, the van Ameringen Chair in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing and an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Health, will be honored by Sigma Theta Tau International for her contributions to the nursing profession during the 31st International Nursing Research Congress in Abu Dhabi in July.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
After nearly a year of critical conversations and collaboration, the SP2 Task Force on Race and Social Justice has released a detailed report outlining a set of incisive recommendations aimed at advancing intersectionality, identity, and inclusion among all of the School’s constituent groups.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
