In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
To more accurately reflect the diversity of literature in China, the Penn Libraries has made a special effort to add recent internet novels that have been published in print form to its collection.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
Urban travel speed is strongly related to a country’s GDP, which explains why it is crucial to invest more in roads and increase uncongested mobility, according to a new paper co-authored by Wharton’s Gilles Duranton.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The Presidential Assistant Professor in Bioengineering, Psychiatry, Microbiology, and in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been selected as a 2023 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholar by the National Academy of Medicine, for his work combining human and machine intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery and developing useful tools and lifesaving medicines.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
Penn Nursing, Annenberg Virtual Reality ColLABorative, and New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing have been awarded 2023 grant from the Hillman Emergent Innovation: Serious Illness and End of Life program to study the use of social virtual reality in enhancing the treatment experience and reducing loneliness in people undergoing hemodialysis.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
At the Weitzman Commencement Ceremony in May 2024, the School will award Lin Huiyin, arguably the first and most famous female architect in modern China, with a long overdue posthumous Bachelor of Architecture degree.
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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.
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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.
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In a new study, Cary Coglianese and co-author demonstrate the power of businesses to exert substantial influence over agency rulemaking.
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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.
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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 →
