In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Hospitalized patients with COVID-19 have high rates of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). A new study sheds light on the mortality attributable to ARDS in sepsis patients, and provides a mortality benchmark for future studies of patients with COVID-19.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Federal income tax law expert and Alvin L. Snowiss Professor of Law Reed Shuldiner parses out the language of the notice to provide a clear statement of the announced changes to tax filing and payment rules.
FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →
LDI Senior Fellow Hanming Fang, and colleagues quantify the effects of the lockdown of the city of Wuhan on January 23, 2020, showing that it played a crucial role in reducing cases of COVID-19 in other Chinese cities and halting the spread of the virus.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
In “Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale,” Jonathan Barnett, retired professor of practice in the Department of City and Regional Planning, describes how to redesign megaregional growth using mostly private investment, without having to wait for massive government funding or new governmental structures.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
A new Penn study uncovers key mechanisms behind embryonic development, moving the regenerative medicine field closer to developing cell therapies.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
When Flip Flop, a 12-year-old warmblood gelding, suffered multiple injuries while racing, a quick referral to New Bolton Center resulted in the full attention of multiple specialists in one location: surgeons, criticalists, radiologists, anesthesiologists, and others.
FULL STORY AT Penn Vet →
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.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
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.”
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
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.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
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.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
