In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The MRMJJ Presidential Professor of Education at Penn GSE and has been a faculty member since 2004; her scholarship has focused on how schools and universities can help sustain and advance democracy.
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The Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures has been appointed director for MEC, which offers a major and minor in Modern Middle Eastern Studies, teacher training workshops and programing with community colleges and minority-serving institutions.
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With these agreements in place, Penn authors publish nearly 50% of their publications with publishers who have entered into open access agreements with the Penn Libraries.
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A new “Health Affairs Health Policy Brief” co-authored by Penn Nursing’s Derek Griffith highlights the detrimental impact of recent state and federal policies that restrict discussions of “divisive concepts,” including structural racism. It warns that these policies undermine efforts to address health inequities and improve population health.
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The Energy Justice Lab focuses on equity in the energy transition, including access to household energy services. One dimension of this work is the Utility Disconnections Dashboard, which makes information about utility shut-offs more accessible and understandable. Practitioners, policymakers, and scholars use the dashboard to better understand utility disconnections and to advocate for stronger protections.
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A new AI tool can search through data and histology images for exponentially more precise information on cancer treatment effectiveness than what can be gleaned from CT or MRI scans.
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The November symposium at the Weitzman School, titled “What is the Future of Cultural Landscape Preservation?” was organized by the Urban Heritage Project at Weitzman, which brought together longstanding proponents of cultural landscape thinking and current practitioners to envision the future of this field.
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Culturally determined social norms can encourage—or limit—the formation of new firms, Wharton research shows.
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New research from Wharton’s Philip Tetlock finds that combining predictions from large language models can achieve accuracy on par with human forecasters.
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Montalvo will officially assume her role on January 8, 2025.
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