In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Philadelphia 76ers All-Star Joel Embiid, managing partner Josh Harris, and co-managing partner David Blitzer are donating funds for rapid deployment of COVID-19 antibody testing to Philadelphia doctors and nurses, identifying those with potential immunity.
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The gift will propel critical immunology research by world leaders pivoting to novel coronavirus research.
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The MBA program is launching a new quantitative finance major within the Finance Department. New courses will be offered, bolstered by the establishment of the Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Professorship in Quantitative Finance and the new Dr. Bruce I. Jacobs Scholars in Quantitative Finance.
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Aurea Simon-Soro was named the recipient of the 2020 IADR Oral Health Research Young Investigators Travel Award and Yuan Liu was honored with the 2020 IADR Women in Science Promising Talent Award.
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Stay-at-home orders have left many families struggling without routines or rhythms. Creating a schedule for your family can be a way to regain, even in a small way, a sense of order and normalcy.
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The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise (ISCNE) in partnership with the U.S. Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership (CSL) moved forward as planned—virtually—with participants scattered across the country and world, including Pennsylvania, Maine, Wyoming, Virginia, and China. According to Lt. Col. Steven Hildebrand of the U.S.
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In “Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale,” Jonathan Barnett, retired professor of practice in the Weitzman School of Design describes how to redesign megaregional growth using mostly private investment, without having to wait for massive government funding or new governmental structures. In this excerpt, Barnett lays out three new initiatives that can reshape current trends in regional design.
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As media reports about shortages of ventilators and hospital beds show, the COVID-19 pandemic will most probably lead to rationing of care. This opinion piece explores the likely impact of care rationing in the absence of the best possible information on decision quality, patients, and care providers. The authors also consider the potential benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) in guiding decisions about how care can be rationed.
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More than 10 percent of the facilities in the United States that perform transcatheter aortic valve replacement saw worse than expected outcomes in terms of survival and quality of life among patients who underwent the procedure. A team at Penn developed a metric to assess the performance of sites nationwide based on patient outcomes.
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Wharton’s Greg Shea discusses the potential benefits of artificial intelligence in guiding decisions about how care can be rationed.
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