In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Three of Penn GSE’s closest partnership schools made the School District of Philadelphia’s “Best and Most Promising” list this year, with West Philadelphia’s Penn Alexander named the top-scoring K-8 school in the city.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Fantuzzo, the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations, analyzes public and private data to better understand student experiences in and out of school, and Perna is an expert on college access and affordability, with a special focus on low-income, first-generation, and non-traditional students. She co-founded and is the Executive Director of Penn GSE’s Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
Vasudevan, who spent four years as a producer of MTV’s True Life series, plans to use her time at Annenberg to consider how data collection impacts the way that history is written and viewed, whose stories are being left out in the dominant narrative about technology and access to technology, and how to develop a more ethical approach to collecting data.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
According to Penn psychologist Thea Gallagher, giving back (volunteering or donating to a special cause) in the face of any “traumatic” event—such as a pregnancy loss—can help ease the emotional pain.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Visual artist Roderick Coover, the 2019 PPEH Mellon Artist-in-Residence, will conduct collaborative research on the waters of the Delaware Bay and along the shores of the Thames estuary, the North Sea, and English Channel for The Altering Shores, a long-term collaborative transmedia project engaging questions of sea-level rise.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
A study led by Beatrice H. Hahn of the origin of HIV-1 in non-human primates could lead to a better AIDS vaccine.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Only 1% of venture capital funds go to women of color each year. As a WISE Fellow, Chanelle Lansley is working to change that statistic for the better.
FULL STORY AT Wharton →
“Creating an Effective Child Welfare System” is a massive open online course that helps social workers, policymakers, politicians, attorneys, and judges examining and assessing the child welfare system and its policies.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
In this role, Marion Leary will design and execute innovation programs and projects through Penn Nursing’s Office of Nursing Research.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
A study published in Jama Network Open finds that payment for research participation invites deception and lying about eligibility, regardless of the amount of money offered.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
