In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
A new study by Penn LDI fellows shows how incarceration plays a meaningful role in population health and birth outcomes by focusing on two state-level incarceration policies, both adopted during the 1990s: three strikes and truth-in-sentencing.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
A new study from Penn LDI surveyed a national sample of 304 trans individuals (including about half of whom identified as transmasculine) to measure the knowledge and use of PrEP, assess five PrEP program attributes, and determine which of these attributes are considered the most important.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
New research from Wharton’s Patti Williams tackles one of the biggest contradictions in consumer behavior: why we love stuff that’s so bad, it’s good.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The American Student Dental Association inaugurated its 2024-2025 executive committee and board of trustees with Parker Norman and Samarth Setru in key national leadership positions.
FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →
A new study from Penn LDI shows that in areas with greater socioeconomic disadvantage, patients who need aortic valve replacement tend to get fewer sophisticated procedures than patients in more privileged areas.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Last month, the Penn Institute for Urban Research hosted a conversation on introducing renewable energy to informal settlements in Accra, Ghana.
FULL STORY AT Penn IUR →
This year, Penn Engineering partnered with Analytics at Wharton (AAW) and the Penn Museum to co-host the fifth annual WiDS @ Penn conference.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
The J. Peter and Geri Skirkanich Associate Professor of Innovation has been selected for the Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Awards, sponsored by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), to investigate the relationship between TDP-43 and the immune system.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Learn more about female politicians, rock stars, and other significant figures who haven’t been fully recognized in history classes with these stories.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
The winners of the 2022-2023 SICK $10K Challenge from Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, the SauberBOT project, was flown to SICK’s headquarters in Germany to accept their prize.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
