In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
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.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
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.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
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.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Experts from the Penn Wharton Budget Model highlight the close relationship between oil prices and business investments in the U.S.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
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.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
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.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering →
All the honorees will be recognized during a virtual, end-of-the-year event that is being planned.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Bomyi Lim, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Biomolecular Engineering, has been selected by the U.S. Chapter of the Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE) as the recipient of the KIChE President Young Investigator Award.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering →
LDI’s Atheendar Venkataramani and Rachel Werner held the third “Experts at Home” virtual seminar, which explored the likely health consequences of the coronavirus-driven economic downturn.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Peter Neal and Naomi Biden have waded through the 335-page CARES Act and devised an online quiz that calculates eligibility for federal relief under the coronavirus stimulus bill’s provisions.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
