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  • Two from Weitzman recognized as 2023 Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania

    Rashida Ng, Presidential Associate Professor of Architecture and chair of the undergraduate architecture program at Penn, and Marsha Perelman, a 1974 graduate of the Master of City Planning program and chair of Calder Philadelphia, have been recognized as 2023 Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • Long-term care insurance changes employment among adult children with aging parents

    A new study by LDI senior fellow Norma B. Coe and colleagues finds that long-term care insurance coverage could increase the economic opportunities for adult children of aging parents by increasing the likelihood that they work full-time.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • Business intimidation in the rulemaking process

    In a new study, Cary Coglianese and co-author demonstrate the power of businesses to exert substantial influence over agency rulemaking.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law

  • Weitzman welcomes new fellows in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning

    The Weitzman School welcomes Emma Mendel as the 2023-2024 McHarg Fellow in the Department of Landscape Architecture, and Stanley Jamal Collins as a provost’s postdoctoral fellow in the Department of City and Regional Planning. Xiang Zhang and Maximilian Ororbia have joined the Department of Architecture as postdoctoral fellows.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • Penn and CHOP researchers receive $50M in NIH grant to study impact on environmental factors on pregnancy and children’s health

    The Penn-CHOP ECHO program will enroll patients at Penn Medicine during pregnancy and follow the infants into childhood at CHOP.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News

  • Diversity in the Stacks: Black cinema, Middle Eastern and North African film, and media-critical documentary

    The Penn Libraries has been expanding its selections of streaming films by working with distributors of international cinema like ArtMattan, Typecast Films, and the Media Education Foundation.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries

  • Aging on screen and on the page: Changing depictions of older people in the media

    A conference held at Annenberg took a deep dive into how gender, age, and aging are portrayed in the media, and the implications for society.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication

  • Rendell Center receives Annenberg Civics Award to create First Amendment videos

    The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics has named the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement as the recipient of the 2023 Civic Mission of the Nation Award. The Center will receive $73,000 to produce a six-part video series for community colleges titled “The First Amendment in 21st Century America.”

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center

  • University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine receives grant to develop veterinary training program for rural communities

    Associate professor of clinical dairy production Joseph S. Bender and dairy production fellow Sarah Rassler received a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to establish a comprehensive program designed to train recent veterinary graduates and prospective veterinarians in advanced production techniques.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Vet

  • Why shameless self-promotion backfires at work

    Tooting your own horn at work is important, but including others in your symphony of accomplishments will make you more likeable, according to new research from Wharton’s Maurice Schweitzer.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton